Michael Barbaro

The official, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanch, said that the photos, including one featuring President Trump, had been removed to address complaints from Epstein's victims, not to protect President Trump.

And over the weekend, the United States Coast Guard stopped and boarded a tanker carrying Venezuelan oil, its second such interception in the past month.

The Coast Guard is currently pursuing yet another tanker linked to Venezuela, whose crew had refused to let American guardsmen board the vessel.

It's all part of a growing pressure campaign against the Venezuelan leader, Nicolas Maduro, that has increasingly been focused on oil.

Today's episode was produced by Shannon Lin and Mary Wilson, with help from Astha Chaturvedi.

It was edited by Mark George, with help from Devin Taylor.

Contains music by Alyssa Moxley, Alisha Ba'itu, Pat McCusker, and Dan Powell.

And was engineered by Alyssa Moxley.

That's it for The Daily.

I'm Michael Balboro.

See you tomorrow.

From The New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro.

This is The Daily.

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