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has captured another oil tanker after a month spent chasing it.
U.S.
forces tracked the ship from near Venezuela all the way to the Indian Ocean.
It's the eighth sanctioned oil tanker U.S.
forces have grabbed.
Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein's longtime associate, today refused to answer questions from Congress.
The House Oversight Committee is investigating how the government handled the Epstein case.
Maxwell joined this morning's closed-door deposition virtually from prison.
That's Republican Representative James Comer of Kentucky, the chair of the Oversight Committee.
Maxwell is serving a 20-year prison sentence for helping recruit and groom underage girls.
Her lawyer said Maxwell was prepared to speak if President Trump gave her clemency.
Also on Capitol Hill, one of President Trump's signature housing proposals, a ban on Wall Street investors buying single-family homes, isn't going over so well.
People familiar with the matter say the White House has pressured congressional Republicans in recent weeks to include the investor ban as an amendment in one of the two major housing bills currently working their way through the House and the Senate.
The House is set to vote on its bill as soon as tonight and is expected to pass with bipartisan support.
The Senate passed a similar bill last fall.
Rebecca Picciotto, who covers residential real estate for the journal, says lawmakers have been resistant.
Rebecca says Congress has its own ideas about how to improve the housing market.
Coming up, what happens when a Chinese company sets up a factory in the U.S.?
And where are markets today after the Dow hit 50,000 on Friday?
That's after the break.