On today's news brief: The U.S. and Iran held indirect technical talks in Doha as they seek to agree on the flow of shipping through the Strait of Hormuz and secure a lasting ceasefire, socialism continues to rise in the Democratic party, recovery efforts following the earthquakes in Venezuela continue with Samaritan's Purse mobilizing in one of the most impacted regions, and a new report on the death tolls from violence in Nigeria shows that nearly  80,000 people have lost their lives in over 15,000 attacks in the past 6 years.