Democratic opponents of President Donald Trump have lashed out

at what they say were racist tweets aimed at their progressive female colleagues.

Meanwhile, China posted a second-quarter GDP growth of 6.2 percent — its slowest pace since the first quarter of 1992.

Billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein’s new sex trafficking charges have brought down a cabinet member, Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta, the prosecutor who arranged what’s being called a lenient plea deal for Epstein in 2008. Meanwhile, the Vice President got into the middle of the border controversy Friday.

President Donald Trump has abandoned his bid to add the controversial citizenship question to the 2020 census. Meanwhile, after Japan accused

South Korea of sharing sensitive technology with North Korea, Seoul responded

today by suggesting that the United Nations should investigate Japan’s claim.

British and U.S. officials say several boats belonging to Iran’s Revolutionary Guards attempted to stop the vessel as it entered the Strait of Hormuz

from the Persian Gulf yesterday. Meanwhile, U.S. Labor Secretary Alex Acosta

stood by his handling of a decade-old sex crimes case that resulted in financier

Jeffrey Epstein’s lenient plea deal.

Labor Secretary Alex Acosta is facing calls from Democrats and oth-

er critics to resign for helping disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein secure a lenient

2008 plea deal. Meanwhile, the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff says

Washington is enlisting “a number of countries” to help protect commercial ship-

ping in the Persian Gulf and off Yemen.

Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam said the controversial extra- dition legislation that’s fueled protests there is “dead.” Meanwhile, the U.K. is standing behind its ambassador to Washington after President Donald Trump an- nounced yesterday that he’d “no longer deal with” him.

The U.S. women’s soccer team defeated the Netherlands, 2-0, yesterday to earn the national team’s fourth global championship and a compelling argument for getting paid as much as their male counterparts. Meanwhile, Greek voters leaned right in Sunday’s elections, ousting a leftist Athens government.

An even bigger earthquake hit California last night, but like Thursday’s temblor, was far from the heavily populated coast. Felt as far away as Phoenix, it was a reminder that “The Big One” could happen any time. Meanwhile, a House Committee has plans to grill immigration officials over how kids are treated at America’s southern border

President Donald Trump’s Fourth of July address in Washington yesterday focused

on the country’s accomplishments and “truly extraordinary heritage.” Meanwhile,

London has descended into a diplomatic spat with Tehran after

British Royal Marines impounded the Syria-bound vessel yesterday in Gibraltar.

A day after Justice Department officials said the Census Bureau

would begin printing the 2020 questionnaire without the controversial citizenship

question, the agency announced it’ll search for ways to include it. Meanwhile, police in Hong Kong said they arrested a dozen people on a range of offenses in

connection with protests earlier this week.