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Market Watch – by Robert Schroeder

The Washington Post reports the National Park Service is diverting nearly $2.5 million in entrance and recreation fees primarily intended to improve parks across the country to cover costs associated with President Donald Trump’s Independence Day celebration on the Mall.

Administration officials, writes the Post, have consistently refused to say how much taxpayers will have to pay for the expanded celebration on the Mall this year, which the president has dubbed the “Salute to America.”  Continue reading “Park Service diverts $2.5 million in fees to pay for Trump’s July 4th celebration”

ABC News 7

CHICAGO (WLS) — Chicago police have arrested 77 people in a gun and drug takedown ahead of the 4th of July holiday, a police spokesman said.

Nearly a dozen weapons were recovered as part of Operation Independence conducted by CPD’s Organized Crime Bureau, the spokesman said Wednesday morning.  Continue reading “77 arrested by Chicago police in pre-4th of July holiday gun, drug take down, Mayor Lori Lightfoot to unveil safety plan”

RT

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law suspending the Cold War-era INF Treaty. Putin announced in February that he would halt participation in the treaty after Washington’s abrupt decision to pull out of the agreement.

The Trump administration announced last October that the US would pull out of the treaty which has been a cornerstone of European security since its signing in 1987. Moscow later promised a “mirror response” to the decision and said it would suspend its own participation.  Continue reading “Putin signs law suspending INF treaty with US”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Just a week after Nike appeared to bow to Chinese authorities’ demands, halting the sale of a range of sports shoes in China after its Japanese designer showed support for Hong Kong protests in an Instagram post; the sportswear company has been implicitly banned from Arizona after nixing the launch of its “Betsy Ross Flag” sneakers after former football player Colin Kaepernick complained.  Continue reading “Arizona Blocks Nike After Kaepernick-Complaint Sparks Virtue-Signaling Sneaker Ban”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

A left-wing agitator using the artwork and a pseudonym associated with a Rolling Stone and Playboy journalist has made serious threats to use muriatic acid for attacks conservatives at the upcoming Demand Free Speech rally on July 6 in Washington DC, according to Big League Politics.

“I just want to toss as many balloons of Muriatic acid in the faces as many Proud Boys I can [sic],” wrote the user “POUND ON YOUR BOY” on a popular right-wing Telegram channel, prompting event co-organizer Enrique Tarrio to contact the FBI and DHS, who will now assist with security at the event.  Continue reading “Antifa Plots Acid Attack At DC Free Speech Rally”

The Defense Post

U.S. Central Command said Monday, July 1 that it carried out airstrikes targeting al-Qaeda leadership at a training facility in northwest Syria.

“This operation targeted AQ-S operatives responsible for plotting external attacks threatening U.S. citizens, our partners, and innocent civilians,” CENTCOM said in a statement.  Continue reading “US targets Al-Qaeda leadership in northwestern Syria”

ABC News

Salmonella linked to papayas imported from Mexico have infected dozens of people in at least eight states in the last six months, according to the Centers for Disease Control.

The 62 cases stem from a strain called Salmonella Uganda, which were reported from Jan. 14 to June 8, but mostly concentrated in April, according to a statement the agency released Friday.  Continue reading “Salmonella outbreak linked to papayas imported from Mexico: CDC”

Yahoo News

MORGAN HILL, Calif. (AP) — A man who had just been fired from a Northern California Ford dealership shot and killed two employees and then killed himself, police and witnesses said.

Police called to the Ford Store Morgan Hill Tuesday evening found a man dead of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot on the ground near the store’s service bays.  Continue reading “Gunman kills 2 at California car dealer, kills himself”

ABC News

A sheriff’s deputy was shot and killed in Illinois on Tuesday evening — the fifth law enforcement officer shot and killed in just eight days across the country.

Troy Chisum, 39, was shot at about 2 p.m. in Avon, Illinois, about an hour west of Peoria, while responding to a battery and domestic disturbance call, according to the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office.  Continue reading “Illinois sheriff’s deputy becomes 5th officer fatally shot in last 8 days across country”

Yahoo News

Mexico City (AFP) – Mexico’s president vowed Tuesday to investigate the controversial detention of migrants trying to cross the US border, saying the 15,000 troops he has deployed there have no such orders.

President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, a leftist who took office in December vowing to protect migrants’ rights, has come under fire over an AFP journalist’s images last week of heavily armed National Guardsmen forcibly detaining two women and a girl at the Rio Grande river, across from El Paso, Texas.  Continue reading “Mexico will not detain migrants at US border: president”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Despite Trump taking to Twitter Monday morning to question, “why are we protecting the shipping lanes for other countries (many years) for zero compensation,” and asserting further that “All of these countries should be protecting their own ships” — the US naval build-up in the Persian Gulf region continues.  Continue reading “More US Warships Arrive In The Mideast Even As Trump Signals Draw Down”

Yahoo News

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has struck down a section of federal law that prevented officials from registering trademarks seen as scandalous or immoral, handing a victory Monday to California fashion brand FUCT.

The high court ruled that the century-old provision is an unconstitutional restriction on speech. Between 2005 and 2015, the United States Patent and Trademark Office ultimately refused about 150 trademark applications a year as a result of the provision. Continue reading “High court strikes down ‘scandalous’ part of trademark law”

Yahoo News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Conservative U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch sided with the court’s four liberals on Monday in striking down a federal law that imposes stiff criminal sentences for those convicted of certain crimes involving firearms.

In the 5-4 ruling, with Gorsuch’s fellow conservatives in dissent, the court ruled that the federal law in question was written too vaguely and therefore violated the U.S. Constitution. Gorsuch was appointed to the court by President Donald Trump in 2017. Continue reading “U.S. Supreme Court strikes down stiff firearms penalties”

Fox News

President Trump announced Saturday that a planned mass roundup of illegal immigrants by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is being delayed for two weeks, in the hope that a bipartisan solution to the border crisis can be reached.

“At the request of Democrats, I have delayed the Illegal Immigration Removal Process (Deportation) for two weeks to see if the Democrats and Republicans can get together and work out a solution to the Asylum and Loophole problems at the Southern Border,” he tweeted.  Continue reading “Trump delays planned ICE raids to see if Congress can solve border crisis”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

First in Poland it was the proposed “Fort Trump,” but now in Israel it is “Trump Heights”. In a breaking story that had us doing a double take just to assure it is indeed real, a new Israeli settlement in the occupied Golan Heights has been named ‘Trump Heights’ in honor Trump’s deeply controversial decision to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the territory.

None other than Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu presided over the opening ceremony, which featured the unveiling of a large sign bearing Trump’s name and US-Israeli criss-crossing flags.  Continue reading “Israel Unveils Newest Golan Settlement: ‘Trump Heights’”