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Image copyright EPA Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt is launching a fresh bid to stop the Iran nuclear deal unravelling and ease tensions in the Gulf. Mr Hunt will meet EU foreign ministers in Brussels to raise concerns about Iran breaching some of its commitments. The deal, which involves Iran limiting nuclear activities in return for the easing of economic sanctions, struggled after the US withdrew in 2018. It comes amid…

Video Trump defends Pelosi amid feud with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as Democrats draw sides The president and Democrats come to the defense of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi after freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez accuses the leader of silencing her progressive squad. Hillary Clinton on Sunday took President Trump to task over a criticized tweet where he called on progressive congresswomen to go back to the “crime infested” countries they came from, fix the problems there…

CLOSE Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell rejected reparations for slavery in part because it would be hard to know whom to pay. Time Democratic presidential hopeful Beto O’Rourke revealed on Sunday that he and his wife are descended from slave owners, according to documents he said he received recently. The former House representative from El Paso, Texas, published a Medium blog post named after two slaves, Rose and Eliza, who he says his…

Video Debt limit fight in Congress looming as Mnuchin urges lawmakers to raise the debt ceiling Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin invokes special debt measures to continue paying the government’s bills, without breaching the debt ceiling; FBN’s Blake Burman reports from the White House. The Speaker of the House doesn’t talk to the Treasury Secretary on a Saturday night, then send him a letter, and, then blast out a press release,…

Hundreds of people march in New York in opposition to the Trump administration’s plans to continue with raids to catch immigrants in the country illegally in Queens on Sunday. Julius Constantine Motal/AP hide caption toggle caption Julius Constantine Motal/AP Hundreds of people march in New York in opposition to the Trump administration’s plans to continue with raids to catch immigrants in the country illegally in Queens on Sunday. Julius Constantine…

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Hundreds of people march in New York in opposition to the Trump administration’s plans to continue with raids to catch immigrants in the country illegally in Queens on Sunday. Julius Constantine Motal/AP hide caption toggle caption Julius Constantine Motal/AP Hundreds of people march in New York in opposition to the Trump administration’s plans to continue with raids to catch immigrants in the country illegally in Queens on Sunday. Julius Constantine…

A Boeing 737 Max 8, being built for American Airlines, rolls down the runway and past another jet of the same model as it’s prepared for takeoff on a test flight in Renton, Wash. (Elaine Thompson/AP) Aaron Gregg Douglas MacMillan July 14 at 5:11 PM Airlines are planning for the possibility that Boeing’s beleaguered 737 Max commercial jetliners will remain out of commission late into the fall, as the company…

Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, currently facing charges of sex trafficking and conspiracy, had powerful political friends and partners on a global scale, including former Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Barak. On Israel’s version of “Meet the Press” Sunday morning, Barak defended his business ties with Epstein, saying he had no idea that the wealthy financier was convicted of prostitution involving a minor. “He’d served his sentence for soliciting prostitution…

CNN’s Ed Lavandera talks to residents of Worthington, Minnesota, who are grappling with the realities of the current US political climate.

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The Trump administration has begun immigration raids as part of an operation expected to target 2,000 immigrants over the few days, a senior U.S. official told NBC News on Sunday. So far, the pace has started slow; the official confirmed a handful of arrests had taken place, but the exact number was not immediately clear. The raids are expected to take place in as many as 10 cities. Earlier Sunday…

Tyler Holland guides his bike through the water as winds from Tropical Storm Barry push water from Lake Pontchartrain over the seawall Saturday. David J. Phillip/AP hide caption toggle caption David J. Phillip/AP Tyler Holland guides his bike through the water as winds from Tropical Storm Barry push water from Lake Pontchartrain over the seawall Saturday. David J. Phillip/AP Updated at 5:30 p.m. ET Though life-threatening flooding still poses a…

The process of developing and certifying revised software and pilot-training changes has been repeatedly delayed, with airlines scrambling to cope with slips month after month. Share Your Thoughts Do the delays in getting the 737 MAX back into service add to doubts about the airplane or inspire confidence in the work regulators and Boeing are taking to ensure public safety? Join the conversation below. Boeing executives, FAA engineers and international…

PHILADELPHIA — It was a cattle call that only a few presidential candidates answered. And while the front-runner was away in New Hampshire campaigning, the conference probably wouldn’t have welcomed former Vice President Joe Biden anyway.  Just four Democratic hopefuls traveled to the City of Brotherly Love to address the progressive faithful Saturday at Netroots Nation. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro,…

Video Why Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the least of Nancy Pelosi’s problems Republican strategist Colin Reed explains. President Trump squared off with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and four of her progressive freshman members on Twitter Sunday, and told them to go back to their countries of origin to fix the corruption plaguing those nations before they lecture the United States. In the tweet, Trump referred to them as “progressive Democratic Congresswomen” whose home countries…

Tyler Holland guides his bike through the water as winds from Tropical Storm Barry push water from Lake Pontchartrain over the seawall Saturday. David J. Phillip/AP hide caption toggle caption David J. Phillip/AP Tyler Holland guides his bike through the water as winds from Tropical Storm Barry push water from Lake Pontchartrain over the seawall Saturday. David J. Phillip/AP A weakened Tropical Storm Barry continued to drench parts of Louisiana…

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CLOSE This combination of pictures created on July 14, 2019m shows Radio City Music Hall facade pictured after the lights came back on after a major power outage affected parts of New York City on July 13, 2019. (Photo: TIMOTHY A. CLARY, AFP/Getty Images) New York City tried to regain its footing Sunday after the restoration of power from a massive blackout late into Saturday night amid questions of how the outage happened.  Utility company Con…

LONDON (AP) — A U.K. newspaper published more leaked memos from Britain’s ambassador in Washington on Sunday, despite a police warning that doing so might be a crime. In one 2018 cable published by the Mail on Sunday, U.K. ambassador Kim Darroch says President Donald Trump pulled out of an international nuclear deal with Iran as an act of “diplomatic vandalism” to spite his predecessor, Barack Obama. The memo was…