Luke Vargas

It's Thursday, February 12th.

I'm Luke Vargas for The Wall Street Journal, and here is the AM edition of What's News, the top headlines and business stories moving your world today.

Six House Republicans have joined Democrats in rejecting President Trump's tariffs on Canada.

Immediately after the vote, Trump said that Republicans who broke rank would suffer the consequences come election time.

Oh, at least one of them, Colorado's Jeff Hurd, said he was comfortable with his decision.

Here he was speaking to CNN.

The move is largely symbolic.

Even if the resolution clears the Senate, President Trump would almost certainly veto it.

Nevertheless, Democrats are planning more anti-terror votes, targeting U.S.

levies on Brazil and other countries.

Meanwhile, House Republicans were able to advance a key GOP priority yesterday, passing legislation that would significantly tighten federal voter registration requirements.

The Save America Act requires that voters show proof of citizenship and would establish a nationwide voter identification requirement for casting ballots.

While Republicans have framed the bill as common-sense legislation, Democrats warn it could impose barriers for eligible voters.

Here's Journal reporter Anvi Bhutani.

There are fresh signs that international pressure on Russia's oil industry is having an effect, as dozens of tankers filled with Russian oil float at sea without buyers.

Joining me with more is Journal Finance Editor Alex Frangos.

Alex, what's going on here, both with these ships kind of loitering around at sea, but also this real pricing squeeze, Russian oil being discounted heavily on global markets?

I mean, everyone wants lower prices, Alex, but they're already quite cheap.

And I want you to zoom in on that for us.

This really kind of amazing gap that's opening up between what Russian crude oil is fetching on world markets and where international Brent crude prices are.