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Washington's July 4 parade is off. The fireworks are still on

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Organizers called off the Independence Day Parade late Friday, citing an extreme heat warning with temperatures expected to reach up to 115 degrees. The evening fireworks display remains scheduled.

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‘Deport them!’ Tensions flare among ‘irritable’ stragglers ordered to leave Trump’s fair

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‘Deport them!’ Tensions flare among ‘irritable’ stragglers ordered to leave Trump’s fair

As thousands of Great American State Fair attendees “wander the streets” of Washington, D.C. in an apparent attempt to wait out severe weather, a tense exchange occurred that involved a man wearing “a patriotic t-shirt” calling for another’s deportation, The New York Times reported Saturday.Fair attendees were ordered Saturday evening to evacuate the National Mall after a Severe Thunderstorm Warning was issued, an order that initially sparked chaos as several hundred attendees refused to leave. While President Donald Trump has vowed to continue the festivities – even if it means waiting until “2 o’clock in the morning” – attendees may still have hours to wait.“The restaurants in the area, largely fine dining, are packed. People seem exhausted and irritable, and it’s causing some tension,” wrote the Times’ Aishvarya Kavi, reporting from the National Mall.In one tense exchange, Kavi described an incident that sparked one man to call for another’s deportation.“Two men riding electric scooters veered too close to a couple on the sidewalk, [prompting] a short but heated exchange of words,” Kavi wrote. “Behind the couple, a man in a patriotic t-shirt said, ‘Deport them! Deport them!’”The National Weather Service’s Severe Thunderstorm Warning is in effect until 10 p.m. ET, close to when Trump was expected to deliver a speech.

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These Runners Celebrate July 4 at the Mount Marathon Race

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These Runners Celebrate July 4 at the Mount Marathon Race

The Mount Marathon Race plays a big role in the Independence Day festivities of Seward, Alaska.

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Chaos erupts as hundreds refuse to follow emergency evacuation order near State Fair

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Chaos erupts as hundreds refuse to follow emergency evacuation order near State Fair

Thousands of Great American State Fair attendees were ordered to evacuate the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Saturday amid a Severe Thunderstorm Warning, but according to The New York Times, hundreds are refusing to follow orders and creating a “chaotic scene.”“Some are even arguing with Secret Service agents,” wrote the Times’ Aishvarya Kavi, reporting from the scene. “An officer is sternly repeating the evacuation order over a bullhorn, and the crowd is booing. Many have begun chanting ‘U.S.A., U.S.A.’ One man blamed the situation on ‘liberals in the weather service,’ adding, ‘I think this is baloney.’"The Secret Service has suspended all checkpoint operations at the National Mall due to dangerous weather conditions, the agency said in a statement, according to the Times. Attendees are reportedly being shuffled into “nearby Smithsonian museums and federal buildings,” with officials "scrambling" to get the thousands of fair-goers to safety.

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The Fourth of July That Saved My Family

My parents’ rescue at Entebbe taught me that freedom survives only because people choose to defend it.

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Iran Begins 6 Day Funeral on July 4th for Former Leader Khamenei with Dead Tyrant’s Coffin – Successor Is Noticeably Absent

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Iran Begins 6 Day Funeral on July 4th for Former Leader Khamenei with Dead Tyrant’s Coffin – Successor Is Noticeably Absent

Iran began a weeklong funeral on Saturday for the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, months after an airstrike killed him at the start of the U.S.-Israeli war against the country, according to NPR. The post Iran Begins 6 Day Funeral on July 4th for Former Leader Khamenei with Dead Tyrant’s Coffin – Successor Is Noticeably Absent appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

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GOP pundit faces right-wing backlash over apparent July 4 plea to bomb funeral

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GOP pundit faces right-wing backlash over apparent July 4 plea to bomb funeral

Fox News host Mark Levin disturbed onlookers Saturday after expressing disappointment that the Trump administration hadn’t authorized a strike on funeral proceedings for Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who was killed in U.S.-Israeli strikes back in late February.“Yesterday, the enemy gathered [en masse] all in one place,” Levin, a close ally of President Donald Trump’s, wrote Saturday in a social media post on X. “Opportunity lost.”That Levin spent part of America’s 250th anniversary presumably expressing disappointment that a funeral had not been targeted in an attack disturbed a handful of critics.“Mark Levin spends July 4th fantasizing about the US breaking its ceasefire with Iran to bomb a funeral,” wrote Chris Menahan, an independent journalist and publisher of Information Liberation.Conservative podcast host Robb Carter called Levin “the most nauseating human in media” in response to his July 4th musings, and conservative author and political analyst Rich Baris called Levin’s remarks “clinically insane.”“This is literally talking about executing the heads of state – including allies – and starting a World War we cannot win,” Baris wrote. “Insane.”Previously a “Never Trump” conservative, Levin has championed the president amid his deeply unpopular war against Iran. After the Trump administration reached a tentative peace deal with Iran, however, Levin appeared to reverse course and repeatedly attacked the Trump administration for having “capitulated” to Iran’s demands.Clinically insane.This is literally talking about executing the heads of state—including allies—and starting a World War we cannot win.Insane. https://t.co/FiUZRVSQLL— Rich Baris THE PEOPLE'S PUNDIT (@Peoples_Pundit) July 4, 2026

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Sunday shows preview: After America 250, GOP shifts focus back to Trump’s agenda

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Sunday shows preview: After America 250, GOP shifts focus back to Trump’s agenda

Millions of Americans turned out to mark the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence this weekend, even as sweltering heat gripped much of the country and forced the nation’s capital to scale back its festivities. A heat dome engulfed more than two dozen states and Washington, D.C., sending temperatures soaring into the triple digits in several major…

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