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This article was originally published by Tyler Durden at ZeroHedge.  Summary Shipping disruption: Houthi threats forced two Saudi oil tankers to turn around in the Red Sea as Hormuz traffic slowed sharply after more tanker attacks. Escalation in Gulf: Iran claimed strikes on infrastructure in Bahrain, Kuwait, and Jordan, while Kuwait reported a second day of attacks on power and desalination plants. Trump vows more to come: The US launched fresh strikes on Iranian targets, Trump vowed retaliation, and Reuters reported a proposed 10-day ceasefire. “We’ve been nice,” Trump says, warning of more attacks to come. Oil surges: Crude prices hit multi-week highs amid shipping disruptions, with warnings oil could reach $120 if fighting continues. Pentagon scrutiny: The New York Times reported the Pentagon withheld information about dozens of US troops injured in Iranian attacks before the deadly Jordan missile strike. Strait of Hormuz traffic returns to normal by August 31?Yes 14% · No 87%View full market & trade on Polymarket *  *  * Trump Gives Wide-Ranging Comments on Iran: Doesn’t Want to Talk, “We’ve Been Nice” President Trump issued a series of big claims to reporters in the Oval Office on Tuesday. For starters, he asserted that Iran wants to “desperately” meet but said “we” have…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! More than 500 journalists called on the White House Correspondents’ Association to “forcefully stand up” against President Donald Trump on Tuesday ahead of its rescheduled dinner.”Our message to the White House Correspondents’ Association is now more urgent: forcefully stand up for freedom of the press in front of the President, publicly defend the journalists he attacks, and vow to resist his administration’s concerted effort to undermine the First Amendment,” the letter, organized by former ABC News correspondent Lisa Stark and former executive producer Ian Cameron, read.The journalists stated that since the original White House Correspondents’ Dinner, the Trump administration has only become more “egregious” in its attacks against the press and encouraged members at the event to publicly condemn the president, who will be in attendance.WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENTS ‘EXCITED’ FOR TRUMP’S RETURN TO ANNUAL DC DINNER, INSIDERS SAY “We believe it is hypocritical to celebrate the First Amendment in front of the man who relentlessly attacks it. We urge the WHCA to condemn the administration’s actions from the podium and pledge to fight all attempts by his administration to undermine this core pillar of a functioning democracy,” the letter read.In a statement to Fox…

Two senior Wyoming Air National Guard commanders were relieved of command late last week due to a loss of confidence.153rd Airlift Wing Commander Col. Brian Diehl and 153rd Operations Group Commander Col. Lawrence Sullivan were relieved from their posts on July 17, according to a Wyoming Military Department release shared with Military Times.Brig. Gen. Barry Deibert, commander of the Air Component at Joint Force Headquarters, Wyoming Military Department, relieved the two due to a loss of confidence and trust in their ability to effectively lead and command, per the release.Officials did not elaborate on the reasoning behind the loss of confidence, but Deibert noted in the release that Air National Guard leaders are held to the highest standards of professional conduct, responsibility and reliability.“When those standards are not met and that trust is broken, we must take appropriate action to uphold our core values, ensure command integrity, and restore the high standards of professionalism and accountability that our airmen, our state and our nation expect of us,” Deibert said.Col. Bret Trippel assumed interim command of the 153rd Airlift Wing, and Lt. Col. Tony Silva assumed interim command of the 153rd Operations Group, the announcement says.At a later date, a permanent…

ESPN parting ways with Ryan Clark should not come as much of a surprise. The decision was fairly obvious.We don’t say that to dance on his proverbial grave. There’s a difference between celebrating someone’s downfall and acknowledging that the network made the right decision.ESPN had plenty of reasons to cut Clark. It had hardly any reason to keep him. Let’s go through them.EXCLUSIVE: COLIN COWHERD EXPLAINS WHY HE STUCK TO SPORTS AS ESPN BECAME ‘RUDDERLESS’ DURING TRUMP’S PRESIDENCYReasons to cut him: Clark made around $2 million per year, roughly four times what the average NFL analyst earns. He was unpopular with much of the audience. He had a strained reputation with staffers and a mixed one among on-air colleagues. Over the past year alone, he generated a string of negative headlines for ESPN, including shaming Robert Griffin III for marrying a White woman and making dubious claims about police officers involved in what was ultimately ruled a suicide. He also created both on- and off-air tension by belittling Peter Schrager, around whom ESPN is now building a new television show, because Schrager never played football. Clark also had a habit of injecting race into discussions where it simply didn’t belong.Reasons…

A House bill filed this week would force the Air Force to keep at least 126 A-10 Thunderbolt II Warthogs, far more than were in the service’s plans, and to reverse a year’s work dismantling the aircraft’s maintenance depot, pilot training pipeline and weapons course.Introduced Monday as H.R. 9780 by Rep. Abe Hamadeh, R-Ariz., the BRRRRT Act (Bolstering Recognition, Resurgence, Retention, and Remembrance of the Thunderbolt) gets its name from the bone-rattling “BRRRRT!” sound the jet’s 30mm Gatling gun makes when fired.Rep. Don Davis, D-N.C., is co-leading the bill. He and Hamadeh both sit on the Armed Services subcommittee that writes fighter force-structure policy, with Davis as the committee’s vice ranking member. Four Republicans also signed on as original cosponsors, including members from Georgia and Missouri, home to the last two A-10 bases.The bill comes as the Air Force has ramped up A-10 divestment yet has not identified the aircraft that can, and will, take on the close air support and combat search and rescue missions the Warthog has assumed for decades. The service says those roles will be filled by some combination of platforms like the F-35A, F-15E and F-16. “The A-10 has repeatedly proven itself on the battlefield,…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A Trump-appointed judge dealt the Trump administration a major setback Monday, tossing out its lawsuit against Minnesota’s sanctuary immigration policies and ruling the state cannot be compelled to assist federal immigration enforcement.The battle centered on whether the Trump administration can use the Supremacy Clause to knock down Minnesota’s sanctuary laws, which include policies that bar local officials from holding immigrants solely on ICE detainers, restrict participation in federal immigration enforcement and limit the sharing of driver’s license and immigration-related data with ICE.The Justice Department argued Minnesota’s restrictions illegally hinder ICE, but Chief U.S. District Judge Eric Tostrud rejected that argument, ruling states have the constitutional authority to decide how their own officials participate in immigration enforcement.In a 56-page opinion, Tostrud dismissed every claim brought by the Justice Department against Minnesota, Minneapolis, St. Paul and Hennepin County, concluding the challenged laws regulate only state and local officials, not the federal government.DOJ ESCALATES BLUE-STATE ICE STANDOFF AFTER STATES REFUSE KEY FEDERAL REQUEST “They do not command the federal government or its contractors to act. They do not forbid the federal government or its contractors from acting. They do not control how the federal government…

Concerned by the lack of docks on the West Coast that can service large vessels such as aircraft carriers, the U.S. Navy is moving forward with plans to build a new dock at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard. The Navy recently published a Sources Sought notice for a massive, multi-award contract — worth up to $30 billion — for the multi-mission dry dock. The dock is part of the Navy’s Shipyard Infrastructure Optimization Program, which aims to modernize the service’s four long-neglected shipyards at Norfolk, Virginia, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and Portsmouth, Maine, as well as the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility. The contract is for five years plus three one-year options.“The Multi-Mission Dry Dock is a fully pressure-relieved dry dock capable of accommodating shipyard repair services for the newest Ford-class aircraft carrier, Nimitz-class carriers, and other surface and subsurface ships served by PSNS & IMF,” according to the Sources Sought notice.The project was spurred by the need to service Ford-class carriers on the West Coast. “The Navy does not currently have the capacity and capability to perform depot-level maintenance on a Gerald R. Ford-class carrier in the Pacific Northwest,” according to the Navy’s Multi-Mission Dry Dock website. The…

A sterile fly production continues as the United States New World screwworm infections reach 41. Screwworm is a flesh-eating parasite that can be deadly and impact the meat supply if it is severe enough. The most recent confirmed case of screwworm came on Saturday in Schleicher County, Texas.  This is Schleicher County’s first confirmed case of this parasite ever. New World screwworm (NWS) is a fly that lays its eggs in open wounds and body openings such as the eyes, ears, nose, or mouth. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the eggs hatch into parasitic maggots (larvae) that burrow into and feed on living tissue or flesh. The first American case of the flesh-eating livestock pest since the 1960s was discovered on June 3 in Zavala County. Since then, two more cases were reported in the county, while 38 other cases were discovered across the state and in New Mexico along its border with Texas. Federal and local authorities hit the ground running as they worked to expedite methods of warding off the pest and protecting the state’s livestock and wildlife, although clashing at times over the appropriate means of prevention and treatment. –The Texan. The U.S.…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! FIRST ON FOX: Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., is proposing legislation that would withhold bonuses for U.S. Postal Service executives, citing years of staggering financial losses for the agency and its overall on-time delivery record.In a letter obtained by Fox News Digital, Hawley, who has launched an investigation into the Postal Service over its service record, announced the “No Bonuses for Bad Service Act.”The bill would prohibit the USPS Board of Governors from approving any additional compensation for the Postmaster General and Deputy Postmaster General for a fiscal year in which the agency doesn’t meet or exceed an on-time delivery rate of 95% for all mail products.”While Missourians don’t receive their mail on time, the Postmaster General receives a hefty bonus each year,” Hawley wrote in a statement to Fox News Digital. “I am introducing the No Bonuses for Bad Service Act to ensure postal service leadership isn’t receiving bonuses while Americans’ mail goes undelivered. It’s time for the Postmaster General to do his job and put Americans first.”SENATOR JOSH HAWLEY DEMANDS ANSWERS FROM MLB ON ‘PATTERN OF DISCRIMINATION’ OVER WARNINGS TO GIANTS PLAYERS Over the past ten years, Postmasters General have received…