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Venezuela Blockade: Trump orders total halt to sanctioned oil tankers

President Trump declared a total blockade of sanctioned Venezuelan oil tankers and demanded return of seized US oil assets, sharply escalating tensions with Caracas and sending oil markets and regional governments into turmoil.

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$11.1 billion - Value of the U.S. arms package announced for Taiwan

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"We want it back" — President Donald Trump

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"Raphael Warnock was on Meet the Fake Press with a one sided and very biased Kristen Welker as the Host(ess!). Warnock spent the entire show using Religion to try and divide the Country! If a Republican, in particular ME, made those statements, it would be FRONT PAGE NEWS. He ended by saying that he was going to his Church to preach now,…"