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Washington tightens the screws on Venezuela's Maduro.

Plus, the White House tries to rein in a surge of state AI regulations,

and Paramount's warmer bid makes it clear.

Wall Street's appetite for debt is back.

Right now, it's like the rainy season just happened.

All the grasses are growing, and the population is booming, and everyone's feasting.

It's Friday, December 12th. I'm Luke

Vargas for the Wall Street Journal, and here is the AM edition of What's News, the top headlines

and business stories moving your world today. The U.S. is stepping up pressure on Venezuela's

Nicholas Maduro, sanctioning some of his family members and six oil tankers.

The Treasury Department said the targeted tankers had engaged in, quote,

deceptive and unsafe shipping practices and continue to provide financial resources that fuel Maduro's corrupt narco-terrorist regime, end quote.

It follows the U.S. seizure of an oil tanker off Venezuela's coast earlier this week, and comes as President Trump last night, repeated his threat to soon begin strikes on suspected

narcotic shipments making their way via land from Venezuela to the U.S.

To Indiana now, where senators have rejected a congressional redistricting plan in a blow to

President Trump. Trump has been pressuring Republican-controlled legislatures and GOP governors

to adopt congressional maps under unusual mid-cycle redistricting plans in a bit to ensure

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