2: The number of weeks a bipartisan Senate agreement, struck last night with the White House’s blessing, would extend Homeland Security funding. The deal, if it holds, is meant to allow time for negotiations on immigration enforcement and avert a partial government shutdown. Lawmakers in both chambers still need to pass the bill before tonight’s midnight deadline, but the House has said the earliest it could act is Monday morning.
3: The number of Ukrainian atomic energy plants that are being deprived of enough power to keep their reactors online while Russia hammers the country’s energy grid. The danger of a nuclear disaster has prompted the United Nations’ atomic watchdogs to convene an emergency session today in Vienna. Meanwhile, Russian President Vladimir Putin has agreed to a brief reprieve in strikes until Feb. 1.
303 billion: The estimated number of barrels of oil that Venezuela has in its reserves, more than any other country. Those reserves have barely been touched in recent years, but that might be about to change, after the country’s interim President Delcy Rodríguez signed a bill Thursday that opens the nation’s oil sector to foreign investment.
