US forces seize oil tanker in what Venezuela government calls ‘act of international piracy’– as it happened

Summary

We’re closing the blog for the evening, thanks for following along. A recap and key links from the day:

US forces seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, in a major escalation of Donald Trump’s four-month pressure campaign against Nicolás Maduro.
Venezuela’s government said the US seizure of an oil tanker “constitutes a blatant theft and an act of international piracy”.
Venezuela’s best-known opposition leader, the Nobel peace prize winner María Corina Machado, made a dramatic appearance in Norway after slipping out of her authoritarian homeland by boat.
Trump launched a new program that will allow wealthy foreign individuals to buy a US “golden visa” for $1m, and trailed a “platinum” version for $5m.
The US Federal Reserve announced it was cutting interest rates by a quarter point for the third time this year.
The US House has approved a sweeping defence bill that bolsters Europe’s security, in what appears to be sharp rebuke to Trump.
Trump issued a threat to Colombia’s president, Gustavo Petro, saying, “He better wise up, or he’ll be next.”
The Guardian reported that ICE is using smartwatches to track pregnant women.
Tourists to the United States would have to reveal their social media activity from the last five years, under new Trump administration plans.

We’re closing the blog for the evening, thanks for following along. A recap and key links from the day:

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US forces seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, in a major escalation of Donald Trump’s four-month pressure campaign against Nicolás Maduro.

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Venezuela’s government said the US seizure of an oil tanker “constitutes a blatant theft and an act of international piracy”.

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Venezuela’s best-known opposition leader, the Nobel peace prize winner María Corina Machado, made a dramatic appearance in Norway after slipping out of her authoritarian homeland by boat.

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Trump launched a new program that will allow wealthy foreign individuals to buy a US “golden visa” for $1m, and trailed a “platinum” version for $5m.

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The US Federal Reserve announced it was cutting interest rates by a quarter point for the third time this year.

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The US House has approved a sweeping defence bill that bolsters Europe’s security, in what appears to be sharp rebuke to Trump.

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Trump issued a threat to Colombia’s president, Gustavo Petro, saying, “He better wise up, or he’ll be next.”

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The Guardian reported that ICE is using smartwatches to track pregnant women.

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Tourists to the United States would have to reveal their social media activity from the last five years, under new Trump administration plans.

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Venezuela’s government has responded to the US seizure of an oil tanker off its coast, saying it “constitutes a blatant theft and an act of international piracy”.

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The statement, reported by AP, continued:

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Under these circumstances, the true reasons for the prolonged aggression against Venezuela have finally been revealed … It has always been about our natural resources, our oil, our energy, the resources that belong exclusively to the Venezuelan people.”

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Earlier, the country’s dictator, Nicolás Maduro, told supporters Venezuela is “prepared to break the teeth of the North American empire if necessary”.

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For more, the Guardian’s analysis piece from the weekend:

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María Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel peace prize winner, has arrived in Norway, defying a decade-long travel ban, Reuters reports.

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Her arrival came hours after a ceremony to award her the prize. The Norwegian Nobel Committee confirmed her arrival to Reuters. She has been banned by Maduro’s government from leaving Venezuela since 2014.

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In her speech for the ceremony, which was delivered by her daughter in her absence, Machado said she vowed to continue her struggle to free the country from years of “obscene corruption”, “brutal dictatorship” and “despair”. Our earlier coverage:

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The House has approved an effort to force the speaker, Mike Johnson, to hold a vote on a bill that would restore the union rights of roughly 1 million workers.

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The Protect America’s Workforce Act, from Jared Golden, a Maine Democrat, would repeal Donald Trump’s executive order that stripped federal employees of labor rights. The bill’s lead GOP cosponsor is Brian Fitzpatrick, of Pennsylvania, and the two garnered 226 cosponsors of the bill and assembled a majority of members to sign what’s known as a discharge petition, forcing floor action, Golden’s office said.

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Thirteen Republicans joined Democrats to authorize the discharge petition, which passed 222-200.

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“Today’s vote is a reminder of what this House can accomplish when we honor its purpose and allow the people’s will to move forward, Fitzpatrick said in a statement. “A bipartisan majority affirmed that protecting America’s security and respecting America’s workers are not competing priorities — they are inseparable.”

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The US House of Representatives has passed a defense bill that authorizes $900 billion in military programs.

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The sweeping legislation includes a pay increase for troops and an overhaul of how the Department of Defense purchases weapons, the AP reports.

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The 3,000-page bill also includes a demand for more information about the boat strikes in the Caribbean. A stipulation calls for the withholding of part of the travel budget of Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary, unless the Pentagon releases to Congress the full, unedited video of a widely scrutinized strike.

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The bill also authorizes $400m for each of the next two years for weapons support to Ukraine.

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The White House has singaled support for the legislation, though Trump has dodged questions about unreleased boat strike footage and also recently compared Ukraine’s leader to a conman.

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Pam Bondi, the US attorney general, has released footage of the seizure of an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, on X.com:

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Today, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Homeland Security Investigations, and the United States Coast Guard, with support from the Department of War, executed a seizure warrant for a crude oil tanker used to transport sanctioned oil from Venezuela and Iran. For multiple… pic.twitter.com/dNr0oAGl5x

— Attorney General Pamela Bondi (@AGPamBondi) December 10, 2025

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In a statement accompanying the footage, Bondi said the FBI, Homeland Security Investigations and the US Coast Guard, with support from the Department of Defense “executed a seizure warrant for a crude oil tanker used to transport sanctioned oil from Venezuela and Iran”. She said the tanker had been sanctioned by the US for “multiple years” due to its “involvement in an illicit oil shipping network supporting foreign terrorist organizations”.

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The grainy, unclassified footage has no sound and is edited to include a number of clips. The 45-second reel shows US forces landing on the tanker from a helicopter.

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The seizure marks an escalation of the Trump administration’s pressure campaign against Venezuela’s dictator.

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Donald Trump confirmed today that the US has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela. It’s a major escalation in his ongoing pressure campaign against the country’s dictator, Nicolás Maduro. He offered sparing details about the operation, simply saying the tanker was “the largest one ever” and it was “seized for a very good reason”.

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Nicolás Maduro has told supporters that Venezuela is “prepared to break the teeth of the North American empire if necessary”, the AP reports. The comments come as Donald Trump has confirmed that the US seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, in a major escalation in his campaign against the country’s dictator.

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Maduro made the remarks during a speech at a Caracas demonstration organized by the ruling party, the AP reported, noting he did not address the oil tanker seizure. Standing with senior officials, Maduro said only the ruling party can “guarantee peace, stability and the harmonious development of Venezuela, South America and the Caribbean”.

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“And the only president who has the preparation, the history and the unwavering support of the people and the armed forces … is named Nicolás Maduro,” he added.

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Trump was asked about Warner Bros Discovery, which own CNN and is facing a hostile bid from Paramount Skydance. The president responded: “I think it’s imperative that CNN be sold, because you certainly wouldn’t want to … leave those people with some good money so CNN can spend even more money spreading poison, because it’s lies … The people that are running CNN right now are either corrupt or incompetent.”

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After Netflix recently unveiled a $82.7bn deal to acquire WBD’s studio and HBO, David Ellison, CEO of Paramount Skydance, announced a rival $108.4bn hostile bid to take over the entire company. White House officials have signaled their preference for Paramount, and before Paramount revealed its hostile bid, Trump had said he would be “involved in the decision” on approving Netflix’s acquisition.

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Later in the briefing, Trump stopped taking questions from reporters when a CNN correspondent asked him about the non-release of the boat strike video he previously said he had no problem releasing. “I thought that issue was dead. I’m surprised you bring it up. You must be CNN,” the president said. “You know you work for the Democrats, don’t you? You’re basically an arm of the Democrat party.”

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Donald Trump has issued a threat to Colombia’s president, Gustavo Petro, saying, “He’s been fairly hostile to the United States. He’s gonna have himself some big problems if he doesn’t wise up. Columbia is producing a lot of drugs … He better wise up, or he’ll be next … Colombia is a major manufacturer of drugs, meaning cocaine.”

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Earlier this month, Petro warned Trump he risked “waking the jaguar” after the US president suggested that any country he believed was making illegal drugs heading to the US could face military attack.

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Our previous reporting:

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Donald Trump took some more jabs at Volodymyr Zelenskyy at his roundtable today.

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“He has to be realistic,” the president said of the Zelenskyy, as the Ukrainian leader has expressed unwillingness to cede territory.

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Trump also asserted that the Ukrainian people want a peace deal urgently and suggested that a general election is needed in the country. “Are they going to have an election, or are they going to just keep it going like this? So I think it’s time to get that war settled, and I think it’s a war that can be settled. But it takes two to tango,” Trump added.

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The president rebuffed a question about details of the seized oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela.

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“You’ll discuss that with the appropriate people later on,” Trump said. “It was seized for very good reason.”

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He also said that pictures of the operation “probably have been released by now”.

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Speaking in the Roosevelt Room, Donald Trump confirms that the US has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela.

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It’s a major escalation in his ongoing pressure campaign against the country’s dictator, Nicolás Maduro.

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Trump said the tanker was “the largest one ever seized”, and said they’ll be “talking about that later with some other people”.

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Georgia Democrat, Eric Gisler, flipped a once-reliably Republican state House seat on Tuesday.

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Gisler, a local business owner, claimed victory over GOP rival Mack “Dutch” Guest in a district that Donald Trump won by double digits in the 2024 presidential election. The 121st Georgia House district is near the college town of Athens, where the state’s main public university is located.

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It’s the latest victory for Democrats in a series of special-election wins across the country in recent months. A reminder that in Georgia, Democrats unseated two Republicans on the Public Service Commission last month – the first time they’d won on the board in 25 years.

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In their final meeting of 2025, the US Federal Reserve cut interest rates for a third time this year, this time by a quarter of a percentage point. The new range now sits between 3.5%-3.75%.

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However, the committee who decides the rate cut was split 9-3 in their vote.

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The Department of Homeland Security confirmed that it has signed a nearly $140m contract to purchase six Boeing 737 planes for deportation operations.

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The contract with the Virginia-based firm Daedalus Aviation, was first reported by the Washington Post on Wednesday and later confirmed by DHS.

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In a statement to the Guardian, DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said: “We are delighted to see the media is highlighting the Trump administration’s cost-effective and innovative ways of delivering on the American people’s mandate for mass deportations of criminal illegal aliens. This new initiative will save $279m in taxpayer dollars by allowing ICE to operate more effectively, including by using more efficient flight patterns.”

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She added: “President Trump and Secretary Noem are committed to quickly and efficiently getting criminal illegal aliens OUT of our country.”

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According to the Washington Post, funding for the new fleet will come from the congressionally approved $170bn budget allocated for Trump’s border and immigration policies. That budget also includes funding for new detention centers, ICE enforcement operations and construction of the border wall.

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Earlier, Jakub Krupa reported that both the France’s president Emmanuel Macron, and Germany’s chancellor Frederich Merz independently confirmed they had spoken with Donald Trump about Ukraine.

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The German government said, in a statement, that the leaders discussed “the state of talks” on ending the Ukraine war, agreeing that “intensive work on the peace plan is to continue in the coming days.”

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The leaders also agreed that it was “a crucial moment” for Ukraine and for “common security in the Euro-Atlantic area.” UK prime minister, Keir Starmer, was also on the call according to 10 Downing Street.

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My colleague, Fran Lawther, is following the latest out of Europe at our dedicated live blog.

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Later today, the House is set to vote on the annual National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), a $900bn defense policy bill that is set to codify at least 15 of Donald Trumps’s executive orders for the US military.

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Lawmakers, who released the bill’s text over the weekend, are up against the clock to pass the legislation by the end of this year.

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The sprawling text includes dozens of provisions and budget allocations, including a full repeal of sanctions on Syria, $400m in support for Ukraine, and a stipulation that withholds part of Pete Hegseth’s travel budget unless the Pentagon releases the full, unedited video of the much-scrutinized “double-tap” strike on a suspected drug vessel to Congress.

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Last week, House speaker Mike Johnson and congresswoman Elise Stefanik had a public disagreement after the New York lawmaker (who is running for governor) criticized the top Republican for doing away with a provision that would require the FBI to inform members of Congress about any counterintelligence investigations into elected officials or candidates running for office. The bill’s final text now includes this provision.

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Representative Ro Khanna, a California Democrat who was co-sponsor of the Epstein Files Transparency Act, told CNN today that the federal judge’s order to unseal grand jury records from the 2019 federal investigation into Jeffrey Epstein shows that “American democracy still is working”.

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“You’ve now had three judges who, in the past, had said you could not release either grand jury testimony or protective orders now ruling that they have to be in compliance with Congress,” Khanna said. “And these files are going to come out, and it does give me hope that we’re going to see broad transparency.”

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According to the Post, the DHS contract is with Daedalus Aviation, which was established in February 2024, according to corporate records. Daedalus Aviation’s website states that it “offers a full range of commercial and charter aviation services” and “provides comprehensive responsive flight operations tailored to the unique needs of each mission.”

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A federal judge on Wednesday morning blocked the deployment by the federal government of national guard troops in Los Angeles and ordered the guard returned to the control of the California governor, a court filing showed.

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The Trump administration is being challenged in federal court over its authority and rationale for continuing to maintain command over the national guard troops it deployed to the city earlier this year.

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In a historically rare move, the Trump administration federalized California’s national guard in June, dispatching about 4,000 troops in response to protests in the city over immigration raids, despite opposition from the state’s Democratic governor, Gavin Newsom.

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A federal judge in New York has granted the justice department’s request to unseal grand jury documents of the 2019 federal investigation into Jeffrey Epstein.

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In his decision, judge Richard M Berman cited the passage of the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which requires the DoJ to release all records related to the late sex-offender in a searchable format by 19 December. Berman granted the motion with the “unequivocal right of Epstein victims to have their identity and privacy protected”.

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A reminder that on Tuesday, another New York judge ordered the release of records from Ghislaine Maxwell’s 2021 sex trafficking case. Epstein’s accomplice and co-conspirator is currently serving a 20-year sentence at a minimum security prison in Texas.

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Representative Haley Stevens, a Democrat from Michigan who is also running for Senate, announced today that she has filed articles impeachment against Robert F Kennedy Jr, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary.

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Stevens said that Kennedy has “turned his back on science and public health and on the American people”. In a video posted to social media a short while ago, she added that “families are less safe” since he started leading HHS.

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“I cannot and I will not stand by while one man dismantles decades of medical progress,” Stevens said. “Enough is enough, and that is why I’m pushing to impeach RFK Jr, to hold him accountable and to protect the health, safety and future of every Michigander.”

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Her cause will be hard fought, as it’s extremely unlikely to clear the GOP-controlled House and Senate.

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Welcome to US politics live. I’m Shrai Popat and I’ll be bringing you the latest from Washington and beyond.

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We start today with a new poll from Politico that shows two particularly important statistics. Almost half of Americans find their monthly bills (from groceries, to healthcare, to utilities) difficult to afford. While 55% of Americans blame the Trump administration for high prices at the grocery store.

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This data comes after Donald Trump held the first rally-style event in a tour to tout his self-proclaimed success in bringing down the cost of living since he returned to office.

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In a winding, 90-minute speech in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania, the president called affordability a “hoax” (a stance he’s repeated in recent weeks) and bashed Democrats and his predecessor, Joe Biden, for high prices. “We’re bringing them down,” he insisted on Tuesday evening.

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Trump also claimed he was “crushing” inflation, and “inflation is stopped”. While inflation declined from an annual rate of 3% in January to 2.9% in August, it has remained ahead of the Federal Reserve’s 2% target.

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Politico’s poll also had more telling numbers about specific instances where Americans are having to forego vital services. 27 % of respondents said they have skipped a medical check-up because of costs within the last two years, and 23 % said they have skipped a prescription dose for the same reason.

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Emil Bove, a staunch supporter of Donald Trump who now serves as a federal appeals court judge, is facing a misconduct complaint over his attendance at the president’s campaign-style rally in Pennsylvania on Tuesday.

The complaint was filed by Gabe Roth, executive director of Fix the Court, an advocacy group.

“It should have been obvious to Judge Bove, either at the start of the rally or fairly close to it, that this was a highly charged, highly political event that no federal judge should have been within shouting distance of,” Roth wrote in his complaint, alleging violations of the code of conduct for US judges.

Bove told a reporter he was in attendance “just … as a citizen coming to watch the president speak.” The event, billed as an event about “affordability”, mirrored Trump’s campaign rallies, with the president meandering into a wide range of topics, including xenophobic remarks and racist attacks against a Democratic congresswoman.

Venezuela says US oil tanker seizure ‘act of international piracy’

Venezuela’s government has responded to the US seizure of an oil tanker off its coast, saying it “constitutes a blatant theft and an act of international piracy”.

The statement, reported by AP, continued:

Under these circumstances, the true reasons for the prolonged aggression against Venezuela have finally been revealed … It has always been about our natural resources, our oil, our energy, the resources that belong exclusively to the Venezuelan people.”

Earlier, the country’s dictator, Nicolás Maduro, told supporters Venezuela is “prepared to break the teeth of the North American empire if necessary”.

For more, the Guardian’s analysis piece from the weekend:

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has posted its own video edit of the US seizure of an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela – this one, soundtracked with an LL Cool J song. Pam Bondi, the attorney general, earlier shared video with no sound.

DHS’ post was captioned, “KNOCKOUT,” and featured an excerpt from LL Cool J’s song, Mama Said Knock You Out. DHS has repeatedly faced backlash for poaching music for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) recruitment ads. DHS recently used a Sabrina Carpenter song, without permission, prompting the pop star to respond that the video was “evil and disgusting”.

LL Cool J, who participated in a Christmas tree lighting event with Kamala Harris in 2022, did not immediately address the use of his song.

Venezuelan opposition leader arrives in Norway for Nobel peace prize

María Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel peace prize winner, has arrived in Norway, defying a decade-long travel ban, Reuters reports.

Mark Warner, the Democratic vice-chair of the Senate intelligence committee, addressed the US seizure of an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, saying, “If we can interdict a vessel of this size, why can’t we interdict some of these drug boats [instead of lethal strikes]?”

His comments, during a conversation with a Semafor reporter, came as officials released edited footage showing US forces taking control of the tanker.

Warner, who has called for the resignation of Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary, also reiterated his calls that the administration release the video of a lethal boat strike in September. He said more transparency was crucial as colleagues question whether the American military was taking illegal actions.

“You don’t have to be a history nut to realize that America’s history of intervention in the Caribbean, Central America and South America has been spotty at best,” he added.

Effort to restore federal workers’ union rights advances

The House has approved an effort to force the speaker, Mike Johnson, to hold a vote on a bill that would restore the union rights of roughly 1 million workers.

Thirteen Republicans joined Democrats to authorize the discharge petition, which passed 222-200.

House passes bill authorizing $900bn for military programs

The US House of Representatives has passed a defense bill that authorizes $900 billion in military programs.

The sweeping legislation includes a pay increase for troops and an overhaul of how the Department of Defense purchases weapons, the AP reports.

The bill also authorizes $400m for each of the next two years for weapons support to Ukraine.

The White House has singaled support for the legislation, though Trump has dodged questions about unreleased boat strike footage and also recently compared Ukraine’s leader to a conman.

Pam Bondi posts footage of oil tanker seizure

Pam Bondi, the US attorney general, has released footage of the seizure of an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, on X.com:

Today, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Homeland Security Investigations, and the United States Coast Guard, with support from the Department of War, executed a seizure warrant for a crude oil tanker used to transport sanctioned oil from Venezuela and Iran. For multiple… pic.twitter.com/dNr0oAGl5x

— Attorney General Pamela Bondi (@AGPamBondi) December 10, 2025

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Today, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Homeland Security Investigations, and the United States Coast Guard, with support from the Department of War, executed a seizure warrant for a crude oil tanker used to transport sanctioned oil from Venezuela and Iran. For multiple… pic.twitter.com/dNr0oAGl5x

— Attorney General Pamela Bondi (@AGPamBondi) December 10, 2025

The grainy, unclassified footage has no sound and is edited to include a number of clips. The 45-second reel shows US forces landing on the tanker from a helicopter.

The seizure marks an escalation of the Trump administration’s pressure campaign against Venezuela’s dictator.

A helicopter hovers over the deck of a ship while soldiers descend on to the deck down rope lines — A still from the video posted by Pam Bondi appears to show US forces landing on the tanker from a helicopter. Photograph: US Attorney General Pam Bondi’s X account/AFP/Getty Images

More details are emerging about US forces seizing an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela.

Trump rebuffed questions about the seizure at a recent briefing, but the New York Times is reporting that the tanker was named Skipper and was “flying a flag of a South American country where it was not in fact registered”, citing an unnamed US official with knowledge of the event. The source told the newspaper the tanker was taken because of its “past links to smuggling illicit Iranian oil, not because of ties to the Maduro regime”, but that it was carrying Venezuelan oil.

The paper also reported that, according to its source, a federal judge authorized a seizure warrant.

Meanwhile, the AP has reported that the Coast Guard members who seized the tanker were taken to the ship by a helicopter from the aircraft carrier, USS Gerald R Ford, citing an unnamed US official. The Ford arrived last month as the US has increased its pressure campaign against Maduro.

Here’s a recap of the day so far

Donald Trump confirmed today that the US has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela. It’s a major escalation in his ongoing pressure campaign against the country’s dictator, Nicolás Maduro. He offered sparing details about the operation, simply saying the tanker was “the largest one ever” and it was “seized for a very good reason”.
In their final meeting of 2025, the US Federal Reserve cut interest rates for a third time this year, this time by a quarter of a percentage point. The new range now sits between 3.5%-3.75%. However, the committee who decides the rate cut was split 9-3 in their vote. Speaking to reporters, Fed chair Jerome Powell said that it is “very unusual” to have “persistent tension between two parts of the mandate”, when asked about the fissure within the board of governors. However, he did underscore that “these are good, thoughtful, respectful discussions” between members.
The Department of Homeland Security confirmed that it has signed a nearly $140m contract to purchase six Boeing 737 planes for deportation operations. The contract with the Virginia-based firm Daedalus Aviation, was first reported by the Washington Post on Wednesday and later confirmed by DHS. In a statement to the Guardian, DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said: “This new initiative will save $279m in taxpayer dollars by allowing ICE to operate more effectively, including by using more efficient flight patterns.”
A federal judge in New York has granted the justice department’s request to unseal grand jury documents of the 2019 federal investigation into Jeffrey Epstein. In his decision, judge Richard M Berman cited the passage of the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which requires the DoJ to release all records related to the late sex-offender in a searchable format by 19 December. Berman granted the motion with the “unequivocal right of Epstein victims to have their identity and privacy protected”.
The House is set to vote on the annual National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), a $900bn defense policy bill that is set to codify at least 15 of Donald Trumps’s executive orders for the US military. Lawmakers, who released the bill’s text over the weekend, are up against the clock to pass the legislation by the end of this year.

Maduro: Venezuela is ‘prepared to break the teeth of the North American empire’

“And the only president who has the preparation, the history and the unwavering support of the people and the armed forces … is named Nicolás Maduro,” he added.

Trump: ‘It’s imperative that CNN be sold’

Trump threatens Colombia’s president: ‘He’ll be next’

Our previous reporting:

‘He has to be realistic’: Trump chides Zelenskyy as peace deal negotiations continue

Donald Trump took some more jabs at Volodymyr Zelenskyy at his roundtable today.

“He has to be realistic,” the president said of the Zelenskyy, as the Ukrainian leader has expressed unwillingness to cede territory.

The president says again that more information will be released about the seized oil tanker.

When asked about who owns the tanker, Trump said that we’ll “get that information later”.

He also said that he has not spoken with Nicolás Maduro since their last conversation at the end of last month.

Trump offers no details about seized oil tanker

The president rebuffed a question about details of the seized oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela.

“You’ll discuss that with the appropriate people later on,” Trump said. “It was seized for very good reason.”

He also said that pictures of the operation “probably have been released by now”.

Trump just joked that reporters in the room will likely have questions that aren’t really about technology, or the release of his “gold card” (a special visa for individuals and corporations).

The president made his announcement about the US seizing an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, offered no details about the operation, and moved on to a technology and manufacturing roundtable discussion.

Trump confirms that US has seized oil tanker off coast of Venezuela

Speaking in the Roosevelt Room, Donald Trump confirms that the US has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela.

It’s a major escalation in his ongoing pressure campaign against the country’s dictator, Nicolás Maduro.

Trump said the tanker was “the largest one ever seized”, and said they’ll be “talking about that later with some other people”.

US forces seize oil tanker in what Venezuela government calls ‘act of international piracy’– as it happened

Summary

Venezuela says US oil tanker seizure ‘act of international piracy’

Venezuelan opposition leader arrives in Norway for Nobel peace prize

Effort to restore federal workers’ union rights advances

House passes bill authorizing $900bn for military programs

Pam Bondi posts footage of oil tanker seizure

Here’s a recap of the day so far

Maduro: Venezuela is ‘prepared to break the teeth of the North American empire’

Trump: ‘It’s imperative that CNN be sold’

Trump threatens Colombia’s president: ‘He’ll be next’

‘He has to be realistic’: Trump chides Zelenskyy as peace deal negotiations continue

Trump offers no details about seized oil tanker

Trump confirms that US has seized oil tanker off coast of Venezuela

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