
UPI - 28 min 50 sec ago
President Donald Trump pardoned 11 people, including nine Clean Air Act violators, claiming they were just "fixing their car" with defeat devices.

The Hill - 58 min 47 sec ago
A star-studded cast released a reading of Timothy Snyder's popular anti-propagandist book "On Tyranny" as counterprogramming to the White House-led celebrations for America's 250th on Saturday. The video, which was narrated by Sarah Jessica Parker, featured celebrities like Mark Ruffalo, Joan Baez, Kimberl Crenshaw, Margaret Atwood, Leslie Odom Jr., Ted Danson and others. The stars...

NY Post - 1 hour 48 min ago
I know you have a lot on your paper plates this holiday weekend. There's the Taylor Swift wedding and the Fourth of July celebration of the nation's 250th anniversary a celebration of freedom that Democrats have dismissed as a celebration of Donald Trump in place of George Washington, a late scratch.

NY Post - 2 hours 15 min ago
President Donald Trump made a jaw dropping jibe when he was allegedly briefed on alien "hybrids" living among humans.

Deadline Hollywood - 2 hours 26 min ago
SPOILER ALERT: This post contains information and punchlines from Episode 2 of HBO Max’s Life, Larry, and the Pursuit of Unhappiness: An Almost History of America. The second episode of HBO Max’s Life, Larry, and the Pursuit of Unhappiness: An Almost History of America has quite a few surprise guests, including Jerry Seinfeld, Jimmy Kimmel, […]...

The Independent - 3 hours 41 min ago
Confusion between congressional organizing committee and Donald Trump-backed Freedom 250 led some philanthropists to pay their contributions to the wrong cause, House Democrats allege...

The Hill - 3 hours 53 min ago
The Trump administration on Saturday launched its newborn investment program, called "Trump Accounts," opening the federal savings accounts for millions of children in line with America's 250th anniversary. Trump Accounts are available to anyone with a Social Security number under the age of 18. Qualifying children born between Jan 1, 2025, and Dec. 31, 2028,...

Hello Magazine - 4 hours 8 min ago
The King marked the 250th anniversary of America's independence from Britain on 4 July hailing the US-UK relationship as "one of extraordinary evolution"...

Yard Barker - 4 hours 24 min ago
Justin Gaethje looks to be reaping the rewards of his win at UFC Freedom 250. On July 3, President Donald Trump hosted Gaethje at the White House just several weeks after he walked out of the Oval Office to compete inside the Octagon.

The Next Web - 4 hours 41 min ago
Nearly a million people who bought President Donald Trump's $TRUMP memecoin have collectively lost $3.81 billion, according to an analysis by blockchain analytics firm Nansen. The data, which covers all transactions through the end of June, found that 988,905 of the token's buyers are underwater. Trump earned $636 million from the same coin. His 927-page financial disclosure, […] This story continues at The Next Web...

The Hill - 4 hours 48 min ago
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) on Friday accused the Supreme Court of enabling President Trump's massive profits while in office, slamming its 2024 presidential immunity ruling as "one of its worst decisions." In an interview with MeidasTouch, Shapiro pointed to the president's latest financial disclosure report for 2025, released earlier this week, revealing Trump made...

The Guardian - 5 hours 11 min ago
Pardons issued to nine people charged with violating Clean Air Act as extreme heat smothers much of US Donald Trump on Friday issued pardons to 11 people two convicted fraudsters and nine charged with having violated the federal Clean Air Act by disabling or otherwise modifying trucks' emissions controls. Those executive pardons coming amid US semiquincentennial celebrations blanketed in extreme heat exacerbated by greenhouse gas emissions were among a broader wave of acts of clemency from Trump...

Attack of the Fanboy - 6 hours 24 min ago
President Donald Trump announced Friday that he had granted full executive pardons to six people previously prosecuted for disabling diesel emissions...

Advocate - 6 hours 36 min ago
A large group of masked members of the white supremacist group Patriot Front marched through Washington, D.C. , on July Fourth, carrying Confederate flags and upside-down American flags as President Donald Trump's Freedom 250 celebration of America's 250th birthday unfolded in the nation's capital.

Mother Jones - 7 hours 24 min ago
In the leadup to the semiquincentennial, President Donald Trump has waged a war on topics he deems "divisive," from DEI to critical race theory. As a reporter and fact-checker, I've examined this attack on our history closely. I've interviewed historians about how our past shapes our current moment, observed the spectacles put on by administration, […]...

NBC News - 7 hours 58 min ago
President Donald Trump took the stage at Mount Rushmore at an event celebrating the 250th anniversary of the nation's founding. Meanwhile, the extreme heat is complicating planned multi-day festivities in Washington D.C. NBC's Monica Alba reports for TODAY.

The Guardian - 8 hours 15 min ago
Pope Leo urges Americans to live up to ideals of Declaration of Independence in first key address to US Pope Leo has used his first key address to his home country to praise the US history of welcoming migrants, urging Americans to live up to the ideals put forward in the Declaration of Independence. In his latest implicit rebuke to Donald Trump, the first US leader of the Roman Catholic church said the word "America" had become a "byword for freedom" across the world because of...

The Guardian - 8 hours 24 min ago
Guardian readers on celebrating on Independence Day every year and especially this year This Fourth of July, the United States will mark the 250th anniversary of its independence from Britain, a milestone that the Donald Trump administration is commemorating with a series of events and celebrations across the National Mall. The anniversary arrives against a backdrop of civil rights rollbacks , immigration crackdowns and strained international relations . For some Americans, however, the date carries...

NY Post - 8 hours 24 min ago
"We are Americans. We never give in, we never give up, and our country is only going to get better than ever before," President Trump writes.

New York Times - 8 hours 56 min ago
Protesters outside Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Va., ahead of a private dinner for investors in President Donald Trump's cryptocurrency tokens last May.

The Guardian - 9 hours 24 min ago
Savings plans for children born between January 2025 and December 2028 launched as president seeks electoral boost Trump accounts, a savings vehicle named after the US president and authorized by congressional Republicans, are set to go live on Saturday, offering American parents a new way to save money for their children by investing in funds managed by major Wall Street firms. All accounts established for children born between January 2025 through December 2028 nearly the entirety of Donald Trump's...

The Guardian - 10 hours 6 min ago
Donald Trump has kicked off America's 250th birthday weekend with an attack on the 'communist menace' in America. The US president spoke for half an hour on Friday night at Mount Rushmore in South Dakota, the latest stop on his tour celebrating the milestone anniversary of the US declaration of independence from Britain Trump launches America's 250th birthday celebrations with partisan attack Continue reading...

The Guardian - 13 hours 54 min ago
In a speech at Mount Rushmore on Friday evening, the US president claimed a resurgent communist menace' posed a severe threat the country Donald Trump has kicked off America's 250th birthday weekend with an extraordinary partisan attack on what he called the "communist menace" in America, framing its supporters as "the enemy of July 4th, 1776". The US president spoke for half an hour on Friday night at Mount Rushmore in South Dakota, the latest stop on his tour celebrating...

The Independent - 14 hours 10 min ago
The 250th anniversary of American independence is colliding with political polarization and a heat wave as celebrations get underway across the United States on Saturday...