Louise Schiavone

The U.S.

Coast Guard and the U.S.

Navy Wednesday seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela.

President Trump announced the move.

The Trump administration charges the tanker was being used...

to transport oil to Iran despite related sanctions.

U.S.

Attorney General Pam Bondi posted video on the ex-social media platform showing a helicopter landing on the deck of the tanker.

Cold wind and rain are lashing tents and soaking displaced families across Gaza as sewage floods the streets.

NPR's Aya Batraoui reports on a severe winter storm making landfall.

Federal Judge Paula Zinnis has granted Kilmar Abrego-Garcia's request to be released from ICE custody.

The native of El Salvador and resident of Maryland has become a symbol of the Trump administration's immigration policies after he was mistakenly sent to a prison in El Salvador in March, contrary to a judge's order.

The government later returned him to the U.S., but immediately charged him with human smuggling in Tennessee.

Zinnes said the government had no final removal order to deport Abrego Garcia and also tried to deport him to various countries in Africa, even as he was willing to leave the U.S.

and go to Costa Rica.

The Dow's up 621.

This is NPR.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky is under pressure from President Trump to hold elections.

Zelensky's term expired last year, but today he told a meeting of the Coalition of the Willing Group of Nations it would be impossible to hold elections during wartime.

There must be a ceasefire, he says.