White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt defended the seizure of an oil tanker near Venezuela, saying the U.S. intends to seize the oil on board the vessel and an investigative team is collecting evidence and conducting interviews.

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado said Thursday that “decisive” actions by the United States, including the seizure of an oil tanker, have left the repressive government of President N...

During a White House event on Wednesday, Trump told reporters, “We’ve just seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela, a large one… the largest one ever seized actually,” and later added that “it was s...