On today's news brief: The U.S. has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Phase Two of President Trump's Gaza plan to end the war is close, the House of Representatives passed the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act, and the Department of Justice stepping into a controversy in Loudoun County concerning two male Christian students who spoke out against a biological girl — who identifies as a boy — in the boy’s locker room.