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Lineups for today's news shows
≤ ABC's "This Week" -- U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley; House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.; Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine.
≤ NBC's "Meet the Press" -- Haley; Gov. John Kasich, R-Ohio.
≤ CBS' "Face the Nation" -- Secretary of State Rex Tillerson; Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu; Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.
≤ CNN's "State of the Union" -- Tillerson; Collins; Rep. Robin Kelly, D-Ill.
≤ "Fox News Sunday" -- H.R. McMaster, President Donald Trump's national security adviser; Sens. Bill Cassidy, R-La., and Chris Murphy, D-Conn.
US rig count declines by 8 this week
HOUSTON -- The number of rigs exploring for oil and natural gas in the U.S. declined by eight this week to 928.
That's up from the 539 rigs that were active a year ago.
Houston oilfield services company Baker Hughes said Friday that 743 rigs sought oil and 185 explored for natural gas this week.
Among major oil- and gas-producing states, Alaska, Kansas, North Dakota and Pennsylvania each gained one rig.
Texas lost four rigs, Oklahoma declined by three, California lost two and Louisiana and West Virginia each declined by one.
Arkansas, Colorado, New Mexico, Ohio, Utah and Wyoming were unchanged.
Man arrested for shooting at plane
FERTILE, Minn. -- A northwestern Minnesota man was arrested for shooting at a small plane that was flying near his home, after the pilot discovered a bullet hole in the fuselage.
KFGO radio reports that 51-year-old Chad Olson is charged with attempted murder and assault for last week's incident. Olson was released from jail after posting $15,000 bond.
Olson lives near the airport in the city of Fertile. Authorities say he'd complained to the Federal Aviation Administration about planes flying over his property and said he may have to use lethal force if he felt threatened by them.
The pilot told authorities that he heard something hit his airplane, but didn't discover the damage until the next day.
Tesla fires hundreds of workers
SAN FRANCISCO -- Tesla Motors fired hundreds of workers after completing its annual performance reviews, even though the electric automaker is trying to ramp up production to meet the demand for its new Model 3 sedan.
The Palo Alto, California-based company confirmed the cuts in a Saturday statement, but didn't disclose how many of its 33,000 workers were jettisoned. The San Jose Mercury News interviewed multiple former and current Tesla employees who estimated 400 to 700 workers lost their jobs.
The housecleaning swept out workers in administrative and sales jobs, in addition to Tesla's manufacturing operations.
Tesla is under pressure to deliver its Model 3 sedan to a waiting list of more than 450,000 customers. The company so far has been lagging its own production targets after making just 260 of the vehicles in its last quarter.
Oil spills into Gulf of Mexico
NEW ORLEANS -- The U.S. Coast Guard is responding to an oil spill off the coast of Louisiana.
The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement said in a news release Friday that oil spewed out of an underwater fractured pipe in the Gulf of Mexico about 40 miles southeast of Venice, La.
The offshore oil and gas operator, LLOG Exploration Offshore, says between 7,950 and 9,350 barrels of oil were released before the spill was halted. There were no reports of injuries.
The Coast Guard said it was flying over the area Saturday and has spotted three sheens. Officials say any surface oil that appears would likely move southwest and not affect the shoreline.
The Deepwater Horizon spill leaked more than 3 million barrels into the Gulf in 2010.
By The Associated Press