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Video Eric Shawn: Iran is at it again MIT’S Jim Walsh on the oil tanker tit for tat. An audio recording emerged Sunday of a British Navy frigate trying to stop Iran’s Revolutionary Guard from seizing a U.K.-flagged tanker two days ago. In the recording, released by maritime security firm Dryad Global, an Iranian vessel tells HMS Montrose it wants to inspect the Stena Imperio for security reasons, according to the…

Fox News host Chris WallaceChristopher (Chris) WallaceTrump’s tweets unify a fractured Democratic Party Top Democrat blasts Trump’s ‘racist tweet’ about progressive congresswomen Conway: House investigations are ‘combovers doing a do-over’ MORE on Sunday pressed White House senior adviser Stephen MillerStephen MillerHere are the top paid White House staffers Top Democrats question legal basis for appointing Cuccinelli as temporary immigration chief Five memorable moments from Sarah Sanders at the White House…

President Donald Trump on Sunday again ripped into four freshmen Democratic congresswomen who’ve been the target of his sustained attacks, calling them “weak” and “insecure” minutes after blasting a Washington Post story on the fallout over his initial comments about the members a week earlier. “I don’t believe the four Congresswomen are capable of loving our Country,” Trump tweeted. “They should apologize to America (and Israel) for the horrible (hateful)…

Video Eric Shawn: Iran is at it again MIT’S Jim Walsh on the oil tanker tit for tat. An audio recording emerged Sunday of a British Navy frigate trying to stop Iran’s Revolutionary Guard from seizing a U.K.-flagged tanker two days ago. In the recording, released by maritime security firm Dryad Global, an Iranian vessel tells HMS Montrose it wants to inspect the Stena Imperio for security reasons, according to the…

Fox News host Chris WallaceChristopher (Chris) WallaceTrump’s tweets unify a fractured Democratic Party Top Democrat blasts Trump’s ‘racist tweet’ about progressive congresswomen Conway: House investigations are ‘combovers doing a do-over’ MORE on Sunday pressed White House senior adviser Stephen MillerStephen MillerHere are the top paid White House staffers Top Democrats question legal basis for appointing Cuccinelli as temporary immigration chief Five memorable moments from Sarah Sanders at the White House…

President Donald Trump on Sunday again ripped into four freshmen Democratic congresswomen who’ve been the target of his sustained attacks, calling them “weak” and “insecure” minutes after blasting a Washington Post story on the fallout over his initial comments about the members a week earlier. “I don’t believe the four Congresswomen are capable of loving our Country,” Trump tweeted. “They should apologize to America (and Israel) for the horrible (hateful)…

Fox News host Chris WallaceChristopher (Chris) WallaceTrump’s tweets unify a fractured Democratic Party Top Democrat blasts Trump’s ‘racist tweet’ about progressive congresswomen Conway: House investigations are ‘combovers doing a do-over’ MORE on Sunday pressed White House senior adviser Stephen MillerStephen MillerHere are the top paid White House staffers Top Democrats question legal basis for appointing Cuccinelli as temporary immigration chief Five memorable moments from Sarah Sanders at the White House…

Video Eric Shawn: Iran is at it again MIT’S Jim Walsh on the oil tanker tit for tat. An audio recording emerged Sunday of a British Navy frigate trying to stop Iran’s Revolutionary Guard from seizing a U.K.-flagged tanker two days ago. In the recording, released by maritime security firm Dryad Global, an Iranian vessel tells HMS Montrose it wants to inspect the Stena Imperio for security reasons, according to the…

President Donald Trump on Sunday again ripped into four freshmen Democratic congresswomen who’ve been the target of his sustained attacks, calling them “weak” and “insecure” minutes after blasting a Washington Post story on the fallout over his initial comments about the members a week earlier. “I don’t believe the four Congresswomen are capable of loving our Country,” Trump tweeted. “They should apologize to America (and Israel) for the horrible (hateful)…

Video Lara Trump says progressive ‘Squad’ members do not represent American women, previews Democratic debate Congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and Ayanna Pressley have very extreme ideas and constantly dump on our country, says Trump 2020 campaign senior adviser Lara Trump. Lara Trump fired back Saturday against critics who’ve asserted that the “Send her back!” chant at President Trump’s recent rally in North Carolina was planned, instead of…

Video Lara Trump says progressive ‘Squad’ members do not represent American women, previews Democratic debate Congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and Ayanna Pressley have very extreme ideas and constantly dump on our country, says Trump 2020 campaign senior adviser Lara Trump. Lara Trump fired back Saturday against critics who’ve asserted that the “Send her back!” chant at President Trump’s recent rally in North Carolina was planned, instead of…

Video Lara Trump says progressive ‘Squad’ members do not represent American women, previews Democratic debate Congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and Ayanna Pressley have very extreme ideas and constantly dump on our country, says Trump 2020 campaign senior adviser Lara Trump. Lara Trump fired back Saturday against critics who’ve asserted that the “Send her back!” chant at President Trump’s recent rally in North Carolina was planned, instead of…

Media captionA Royal Navy frigate can be heard warning Iranian armed forces, before the oil tanker is seized A recording has emerged of radio exchanges between a Royal Navy frigate and Iranian armed forces vessels, moments before a UK-flagged oil tanker was seized in the Gulf on Friday. In the recording, an Iranian vessel tells HMS Montrose it wants to inspect the Stena Impero for security reasons. Chancellor Philip Hammond…

A younger Boris Johnson in his office, with bound volumes of the Spectator magazine behind him. (Neville Elder/Corbis/Getty Images) William Booth Karla Adam July 20 at 2:05 PM LONDON — Boris Johnson, the far-ahead front-runner to become Britain’s prime minister this week, waved a vacuum-packed fish over his head and railed at the European Union. A kipper smoker on the Isle of Man, Johnson said Wednesday, “has had his costs…

Photo: Susan Walsh (AP) Some 34 states faced record temperatures on Saturday as a relentless heat wave stretched from the Texas Panhandle to northern Maine. The National Weather Service said a “dangerous heat wave” would continue through Sunday in the Eastern U.S., while strong and severe thunderstorms were expected to cool off the Midwest and Upper Great Lakes by Sunday, although the storms brought their own risks. East Coast residents,…

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Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) have released footage showing a British oil tanker being seized in the Strait of Hormuz on Friday. The Stena Impero tanker “was confiscated by the Revolutionary Guards at the request of Hormozgan Ports and Maritime Organisation when passing through the Strait of Hormuz, for failing to respect international maritime rules”. The video of the incident showed Iranian soldiers in black ski masks rappelling…

Video Eric Shawn: Pres. Trump vs. ‘The Squad’ The battle with the White House, and for the soul of the Democratic Party. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., disputed President Trump’s account of his Wednesday night rally in North Carolina, claiming that he “relished” the audience’s chants about sending Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., back to her native country. “He kind of presided over the situation, he relished it, he took it in,”…

Iranian officials are defending the seizure of British-flagged tanker Stena Impero in the Strait of Hormuz near Iran’s coast on Friday. Stena Bulk/AP hide caption toggle caption Stena Bulk/AP Iranian officials are defending the seizure of British-flagged tanker Stena Impero in the Strait of Hormuz near Iran’s coast on Friday. Stena Bulk/AP The U.K. Foreign Office is summoning the Iranian charge d’affaires following Iran’s seizure of a British-flagged tanker in…