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Awe-Struck World Cup Tourists Should Remind Us What Makes America So Great

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Awe-Struck World Cup Tourists Should Remind Us What Makes America So Great

The lesson our foreign friends should learn is that America’s heart and soul has very little to do with our fast food and fast cars.

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Freedom 250 dancer nearly struck by plunging panel as event stage 'falls apart': report

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Freedom 250 dancer nearly struck by plunging panel as event stage 'falls apart': report

A stage panel plunged toward dancers rehearsing for President Donald Trump's Freedom 250 July 4th celebration on the National Mall, narrowly missing them.Video of the incident, posted to X at 3:18 PM Thursday by independent journalist Aaron Parnas, showed the panel falling from the arched stage structure as dozens of dancers performed below."The stage is falling apart at the rehearsal for Freedom 250's July 4th celebration," Parnas wrote."This is incredibly dangerous stuff," journalist Ryan Grim wrote on X."Trump cutting safety corners with stage building is the kind of thing somebody can genuinely be prosecuted for if someone dies," Grim added. Under criminal law, causing a death through reckless safety failures can result in prosecution even without intent to harm."This equipment is deadly when falling from those heights," he wrote.Since Freedom 250's Great American State Fair opened on the National Mall on June 25th, the event has been plagued by power outages that melted ice cream, a 110-foot Ferris wheel that repeatedly broke down, and plywood booth facades painted to look like marble columns, Forbes reported. Freedom 250 is a public-private partnership created by Trump to organize the nation's semiquincentennial celebrations, operating separately from America250, the nonpartisan organization Congress created for that purpose."MAJOR BREAKING: Trump's Freedom 250 stage collapses in the midst of a rehearsal for the July 4 performance," political commentator Brian Krassenstein wrote on X."People literally could have died," he added.Trump is scheduled to deliver a speech at the National Mall celebration at 9:45 PM on July 4th, two days away, according to WTOP.

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US says it struck targets in Iran over ‘continued aggression’ against shipping

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US says it struck targets in Iran over ‘continued aggression’ against shipping

Strikes come after retaliatory attacks on Friday following a drone strike on cargo ship in strait of HormuzThe US military has launched further strikes on multiple targets in Iran, the US Central Command (Centcom) confirmed, a day after it had struck Iran in retaliation for a drone attack on a cargo ship in the strait of Hormuz.Centcom said its strikes on Saturday were in “direct response to continued Iranian aggression against commercial shipping”. The US strikes targeted “Iranian military surveillance infrastructure, communication systems, air defense sites, drone storage facilities, and minelayer capabilities”, Centcom said in a statement. Continue reading...

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US Air Force pilot struck by Iran was also shot down by friendly fire 1 month prior in Kuwait

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US Air Force pilot struck by Iran was also shot down by friendly fire 1 month prior in Kuwait

A US Air Force pilot survived being shot down twice during the Iran War -- first by friendly fire from a Kuwaiti jet, then by an Iranian surface-to-air missile.

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Ship Struck in Hormuz as Naval Authorities Raise Threat Level

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Ship Struck in Hormuz as Naval Authorities Raise Threat Level

Another ship was struck by a projectile in the Strait of Hormuz and naval authorities increased the threat level to shipping, following US strikes on Iran that were a retaliation for an attack on a cargo ship earlier in the week.

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