The Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has denied reports that its naval forces attempted to seize a British oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, despite U.S. claims that one of its surveillance aircraft captured footage of the incident.
British warship HMS Montrose reportedly chased the small Iranian craft away from the British Heritage tanker. The vessel trained its guns on the assailants, but the Iranian crews heeded verbal warnings and backed off before warning shots were fired.
Speaking on the condition of anonymity, a U.S. official said the Iranian action “was harassment and an attempt to interfere with the passage,” according to Reuters.

When Christine Blasey Ford came forward to accuse then-U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of decades-old assault, little was known about her; in fact, she had no social media footprint at all — an extreme oddity for modern times.
Fox News contributor Mollie Hemingway and her co-author, Carrie Severino of the Judicial Crisis Network, suggest in “Justice on Trial: The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court” that this social media history scrubbing had been done to cover up Blasey Ford’s far-left politics and her expressed “antipathy” toward President Donald Trump, who tapped Kavanaugh for the position on the highest court.

A newly opened “temporary” facility to house unaccompanied migrant children could cost up to $300 million and stay open through January 2020, the Trump administration says.
The Carrizo Springs facility in Texas officially opened June 30, and currently houses about 225 children. It is eventually expected to hold up to 1,300, which would make it one of the largest facilities for unaccompanied minors in the country, according to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
The Carrizo facility is run by the non-profit firm BCFS, which HHS will pay $50 million for its first 60 days of operation, according to recent federal filings. Supplemental funding of up to $250 million will be paid if the facility is open through Jan. 31, 2020.

7-Eleven is celebrating its “birthday” by handing out a free Slurpee to all customers today.
The giveaway, which has occurred on July 11 since 2002, gives customers a small 12-ounce Slurpee at any North American location.
Please note that some stores in the tri-state area are not participating in the giveaway. Check with your local establishments.
7-Eleven touts itself as the world’s first convenience store, opening the first of its more than 10,000 locations in the 1920s.
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A Hamas field commander was killed Thursday morning when Israeli troops opened fire on two armed men approaching the northern Gaza border fence, according to Palestinian media.
“A member of a resistance force was hit by occupation fire,” Palestinian media reported, identifying him as a commander in Hamas’s armed wing.
According to media sources in Gaza, the man was shot in the leg and later died of his wounds. Palestinian Wafa news identified him as 28-year-old Mahmud Ahmad Sabri al-Adham.
Hamas said in a statement that the death would not go “unpunished” and that Israel “would bear the consequences of this criminal act.”

Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) attacked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi during multiple recent interviews, going as far as to say that she believes that Pelosi is targeting her because Pelosi is racist.
Pelosi has repeatedly mocked Ocasio-Cortez and the other three far-left freshmen House Democrats, recently telling The New York Times: “All these people have their public whatever and their Twitter world. But they didn’t have any following. They’re four people and that’s how many votes they got.”

An Israeli military court on Wednesday sentenced two Palestinian minors to 35 and 32 years in prison for a 2016 stabbing attack that killed an off-duty Israeli soldier and wounded another civilian.
“The military court sentenced…two terrorists convicted of deliberately causing death and other serious offenses in respect to their responsibility for the attack in which First Sergeant Tuvia Yanai Weissman was killed and another civilian was injured in the Rami Levy compound on February, 18, 2016,” the Israeli Defense Forces said in a statement.
The convicted assailants were also ordered by the court to pay a total compensation of 2.5 million NIS (over 701,325.00 USD).

Dallas County Judge Lela Mays on Wednesday approved an Oct. 10 death date for Randy Halprin, a Jewish prisoner sent to death row for his role in a 2000 prison escape and crime spree that left dead Irving police Officer Aubrey Hawkins.
Now 41, Halprin and six other men took hostages in December of 2000 and broke out of the Connally Unit south of San Antonio, fleeing  to Houston in a getaway van where they pulled off two robberies to stock up on supplies, guns and money.
On Christmas Eve, the escapees held up an Oshman’s sporting goods store in Irving – and Hawkins, who was the first officer who responded to the call was shot 11 times and dragged 10 feet by an SUV as the panicked prisoners fled with $70,000 and 44 guns.

Democrats calling Trump’s census citizenship question ‘racist.’
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And then there were five …
That’s the number of Jews known to currently live in Cairo following the death of the mother of the president of the Jewish community there.
The death of Marcelle Haroun at the age of 93, announced on Saturday, leaves her daughter, Magda, and four granddaughters as the only Jewish residents of the Egyptian capital, reported Watani International.
As of 2017, there are an additional 12 Jews residing in Alexandria, according to AFP.
Haroun was married to anti-Zionist lawyer and politician Shehata Haroun, who was part of Egypt’s Communist Party. He died in 2001 at the age of 82.