Dave Mattingly

Wall Street is coming off another down day for stocks.

The Dow lost 94 points yesterday.

The S&P 500 dropped nine.

The Nasdaq was off 55.

I'm Dave Mattingly, NPR News in Washington.

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Dave Mattingly.

The U.S.

Coast Guard has been in pursuit of another sanctioned oil tanker in international waters off Venezuela.

That's what one U.S.

official has told NPR.

The status of the operation is unclear at this hour.

The official says the vessel in question is flying a false flag under a judicial seizure order.

The Justice Department has reposted one of the photographs it previously removed from its publicly accessible Epstein files involving the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

As NPR's Andrea Hsu reports, the photograph in question showed President Trump.

Vice President J.D.

Vance called for unity within the Republican Party when he addressed Turning Point USA's annual conference in Phoenix yesterday.

As NPR's Elena Moore reports, this was the first national conference hosted by the organization since its founder, conservative activist Charlie Kirk, was shot and killed in Utah in September.

Flood watches and warnings are in effect across nearly all of California this morning because of rains from an atmospheric river.

Heavy snow was forecast in the Sierra Nevadas.

In Washington state, Governor Bob Ferguson describes the flooding in his state this way.