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What happened during the U.S. strikes on Iran and which sites were targeted?
Attacking Iran. I'm Deborah Valentine, Fox News. The U.S. conducting another successful night of strikes on Iran, now the seventh night in a row. Fox's Kevin Cork has the latest.
U.S. forces are pounding the Iranians, cutting off the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas in the process, striking road and rail bridges also. And this is all in an effort to foil Tehran's loose and weakening grip on the Strait of Hormuz. The airstrikes also toppling a large white surveillance tower in Iran's southernmost city of Chabahar. It's on a key trade route for landlocked neighboring Afghanistan. Now, CENTCOM says that structure was part of the IRGC's maritime surveillance network used to track and target commercial vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz.
The U.S. has taken out six bridges in Iranian media, reporting over a half dozen casualties.
How did CENTCOM and Iranian sources describe the impact on maritime surveillance and trade routes?
Iran's IRGC says countries hosting U.S. forces should expect corresponding responses if their territory is used for attacks on Iran, according to Tehran's Tasnim news agency. President Trump is threatening Canada with new tariffs because of thick smoke from wildfires blanketing several U.S. states.
Hazy skies and the smell of smoke lingered all day Friday in D.C. And President Trump says he's holding Canada responsible for not properly maintaining their forests. Smoke from Canadian wildfires has put millions of Americans in poor air quality warnings. In a social media post, the president says the U.S. is being invaded by filthy, polluted and unhealthy air. President Trump says it's willful negligence on the part of Canada. Threatening billions of dollars will be added to tariffs Canada is currently paying. At the White House, Jared Halpern, Fox News.
A landslide in China has claimed at least eight lives. State broadcaster CCTV says at least 34 are missing. America's listening to Fox News.
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The governor of Texas is shedding light on the road to recovery after the latest string of deadly storms.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott says a major disaster declaration declared for counties impacted by floods will allow for federal relief to assist in rebuilding. Adding state and local officials will be involved in debris removal.
Bottom line, you will see a lot of organizations coming in ready to immediately begin that milk out process.
Chief of the Texas Division of Emergency Management, Nim Kidd.
The volunteers that are coming in to clean and help are going to be a huge impact to get us down the road.
The governor saying Friday nearly 3,000 personnel had been deployed and state officials had rescued more than 270 people. Stressing rising rivers still pose life-threatening danger. Kristen Goodwin, Fox News.
Maine's nominating convention is almost a week away, and Democrats are still looking for their nominee to the Senate after controversial candidate Graham Platner withdrew from the race. Fox's Brian Yennis has the latest.
The race to replace Graham Platner as Maine's Democratic Senate nominee is off to a precarious start. Eight of the 12 candidates vying to replace Platner debated for the first time Thursday night. Four Democrats, who won at least 20% of the vote in June's primary, debated first, followed by four longer-shot candidates. After, the New York Times declared, quote, Maine Democrats don't exactly have a deep bench, noting halting answers, convoluted responses, and stilted deliveries. Plattner's popularity looms large over the race. He won the June Democratic primary in a landslide, but was forced to quit after being accused of rape, which he denies.
Maine has until Monday, July 27th to file a new candidate to fill Plattner's spot. The FBI says Ronald L. Fisher, one of Rhode Island's most wanted fugitives, has been captured following a tip. I'm Deborah Valentine.
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