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The Trump administration says it will seize the oil from a tanker commandeered off the coast of Venezuela.

White House Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt says the tanker was transporting oil to Iran in violation of U.S.

sanctions.

The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado praised the tanker seizure during her first public appearance in nearly a year.

She said Trump's actions against Venezuela have left Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro's government at its weakest point.

The House voted today to rebuke President Trump's efforts to end collective bargaining rights for roughly a million federal workers.

Twenty Republicans joined Democrats in backing the bill to overturn one of Trump's executive orders.

NPR's Andrea Hsu reports prospects in the Senate seem slim.

If the obesity drug market could be in for another shakeup, an experimental drug made by Eli Lilly could help patients lose even more weight than drugs already on the market.

NPR's Sydney Lupkin reports.

U.S.

stocks rose to new records today.

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Senators from both parties are pushing to change a massive defense policy bill working its way through Congress.

After crash investigators and victims' families warned it could undo key safety reforms.

The recent reforms stem from the collision between a plane and an Army helicopter over Washington, D.C.

in January, which killed 67 people.

The bill would once again allow military helicopters to fly without broadcasting their locations.

The Walt Disney Company has signed a billion-dollar deal with OpenAI, allowing Disney characters onto the AI company's video platform Sora.