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Before You Light Fireworks Read This First

Before You Light Fireworks Read This First

🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 — BREAKING: Several explosions heard in Bushehr city and surrounding areas.

— BREAKING: Several explosions heard in Bushehr city and surrounding areas.

Dramatic explosion rips through apartment complex as firefighters investigate smoke call

Dramatic video captured the moment an explosion erupted inside a Washington state apartment complex electrical room, sending flames and debris toward firefighters as they investigated reports of smoke Sunday. The wild footage from Tacoma showed a crew of firefighters forcing open the door to the electrical room before thick smoke billowed out. Seconds later, a powerful explosion blasted through []

Lightning strikes during US 250th anniversary fireworks

Lightning was seen flashing over landmarks in Washington, D.C. early on July 5 as celebrations to mark the 250th anniversary of the United States spilled past midnight. #america250 #lightning #fireworks #washingtondc #independenceday #News #Reuters #Newsfeed 👉 Subscribe: https://reut.rs/4b8fRGn Keep up with the latest news from around the world: https://www.reuters.com/ Follow Reuters on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Reuters Follow Reuters on X: https://twitter.com/Reuters Follow Reuters on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reuters/?hl=en

July Fourth fireworks light up skies across US

July Fourth firework displays lit up cities across the US, from Washington, DC, to New York, Los Angeles, and many others. #cnn #news #fireworks

Breaking: an explosion was heard in Bushehr area, Iran, according to Fars Agency

Breaking: an explosion was heard in Bushehr area, Iran, according to Fars Agency

Stranded Whoopi Goldberg Misses The View Due to Erupting Volcano

Whoopi Goldberg experienced a very different kind of fireworks light up the sky this Fourth of July. The View cohost's Independence Day holiday in Italy took an unexpected turn after Sicily's...

Washington briefly becomes world's most polluted city, thanks to Trump's Fourth of July fireworks

Washington briefly became the world’s most polluted major city after massive July 4 fireworks went off as part of the Trump administration’s celebrations.

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US missile falls near the Bushehr nuclear power plant

ALBAWABA - An Iranian news agency reported on Thursday that explosions were reported in the southern city of Bushehr, later confirming that a U...

Heat, humidity, fireworks smoke made DC city with worst air quality in world

Washington, D.C., on Sunday had the worst air quality of any city in the world – the result of high humidity, temperatures hovering near 100F and air pollution from a July 4 fireworks show overnight billed as biggest in history. The fireworks were not set off until after 11 p.m. on Saturday, July Fourth night, []...Click to read more

ALL THAT MATTERS | March of Colors

June arrives every year dressed in color—rainbow flags catching the breeze, laughter spilling into the streets, and voices rising not just in celebration, but in defiance. For those unfamiliar with

'Spectacularly Stupid': Reflecting Pool Becomes Hellhole After Trump Fireworks Disaster

President Donald Trump's massive July Fourth fireworks show fouled the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, choked Washington with record air pollution, and sent dozens to hospitals. Trump's nonprofit Freedom 250 launched nearly 850,000 fireworks shells from 10 sites on the National Mall — including the Reflecting Pool itself. Best fireworks show, EVER! Trump wrote on Truth Social after the display. The morning after, workers were wading waist-deep in the pool to scoop out burned debris floating across the murky green water. Scorched fireworks casings and netting were piled along the walkway by the dozen. The cleanup continued into Monday, when photos showed a large amount of trash in the Reflecting Pool. Shooting off fireworks next to the Reflecting Pool was a spectacularly stupid idea, D.C. photojournalist Joe Flood wrote on X. This is the result. Washington briefly became the city with the worst air quality on earth after the 40-minute show. Officials issued a Code Red alert, warning the air was unhealthy for seniors, kids, people with medical conditions. read more

Massive Warehouse Fire Erupts In West Virginia | State Of Emergency Declared | Dawn News English

A massive warehouse fire broke out in Parkersburg, West Virginia, sending thick black smoke billowing into the sky as firefighters battled the blaze. West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrisey declared a State of Emergency for Wood County following the incident. Drone footage shows emergency crews spraying water on the burning warehouse while authorities continue monitoring the situation. Watch the latest updates, aerial visuals, and emergency response from the scene. #westvirginia #warehousefire #parkersburg #breakingnews #fire #usanews #emergency --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dawn News English is your window into the latest news, insight, and features from South Asia and beyond. Website: www.dawn.com Official Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/dawnnewsenglish Official Twitter: https://x.com/dawnnewsenglish Official Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dawnnewsenglish #news #latestnews #dawnnewsenglish #dawnnews

Man ‘rescued by wife after nearly being sucked out of window’ on Ryanair flight

Passengers said they heard a loud bang before something flew against the window and broke it

'Boomer slop:' report reveals MAGA outrage over Trump's firework display

President Donald Trump’s MAGA base is furious that they faced storms, extreme heat, shoving crowds and armed guards as their leader appeared to sleep, according to a new report. The Daily Beast analysis of Trump’s July 4 fireworks display found a community in an uproar and an 80-year-old president in apparent denial. “Best fireworks show, EVER!” he posted on Truth Social about 12:30 a.m. That was not the Daily Beast’s take, which noted extreme weather spurred a mass evacuation into emergency shelters and sent thousands spilling into the nearby streets.MAGA influencer Emily Miller reportedly remained locked out even as some crowds were allowed to return. “It’s horrible scenes out here,” Miller reportedly said. “I am so done.”Another MAGA fan to complain was Jan. 6 rioter Timothy Hale, the Daily Beast reported. “I love Trump,” he said, “but this sounds like boomer slop meant to placate disappointed crowds.”When Trump finally took the stage at 11.15 p.m., more than an hour later than planned, he delivered a rambling speech against “communists” and misquoted the Declaration of Independence. The 850,000 shell-firework display began about midnight and was marred by dense smoke, according to the Daily Beast. As hot and tired crowds squinted through the haze for the 40-minute display, Trump sat in a private, sheltered chamber, the Daily Beast reported. “Television cameras appeared to catch Trump sitting motionless,” the Daily Beast reported, “as though he had fallen asleep.”

WATCH: One Of Idaho's Most Banned Fireworks Blows Up In Pool

WATCH: One Of Idaho's Most Banned Fireworks Blows Up In Pool

Trump’s fireworks made Washington world’s most polluted city

Trump’s fireworks made Washington world’s most polluted city

The 4 Biggest Fourth of July Fashion Trends To Wear This Year

The Fourth of July is always a good excuse to get dressed up, whether you’re heading to a backyard barbecue, lounging by the pool or watching fireworks after sunset. While patriotic colors never go out of style this time of year, 2026’s biggest holiday looks are a little more elevated, with breezy fabrics, timeless prints []

Swimmer Attacked by Shark on New York Beach

ANGELINA KATSANIS / Angelina Katsanis/ReutersA swimmer has been injured in a shark attack at a New York state beach. The man suffered minor lacerations to his feet after the apparent bite at Jones Beach State Park Field 6 in Nassau County, on Friday, during the busy July 4 weekend celebrations. The incident occurred after multiple reports of shark sightings at beaches in New York City and Long Island. The swimmer was taken to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries and a “deep, shark-tooth-like shape” on the bottom of his foot, reported WABC. One witness said he saw the man after the apparent shark attack, and that he didn’t seem aware of what happened to him. “I just see him getting out of the water and going up to the post and to the lifeguard, it didn’t really seem like anything happened and he was holding his foot and they came and got him, but yeah, then they were like ‘everyone get out’ and cleared everything,” said Tyler Grossman. Authorities temporarily closed the beach, although people were allowed back in the water to their waist around an hour later when no other sharks were spotted. Read it at WABCRead more at The Daily Beast.

If You Wear Only One Polish Shade This Summer, Let It Be Sky Blue

Taylor Swift recently wore the shade to the Toy Story 5 premiere.

Fourth of July Fireworks

Steve Brodner Happy birthday, America! The post Fourth of July Fireworks appeared first on The Nation.

Powerful explosion as firefighters probe smoke at Tacoma apartment | AJ #shorts

Dramatic video shows the moment an explosion rocked a building in Tacoma, sending flames and debris toward firefighters as they were investigating reports of smoke rising from an electrical room within the residential complex. No injuries were reported. Subscribe to our channel: http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on X : https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera Check our website: http://www.aljazeera.com/ Check out our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/aljazeeraenglish/ Download AJE Mobile App: https://aje.news/AJEMobile

Mount Etna eruption forces flight cancellations | DW News

Mount Etna erupted for a tenth consecutive day, sending a plume of ash thousands of meters into the sky and streams of lava down its slopes. The activity forced flight cancellations at Sicily’s Catania Airport for most of Monday. #itlay #etna #volcano #eruption #dwnews For more news go to: http://www.dw.com/en/ Follow DW on social media: ►Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dwnews ►TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@dwnews ►Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/deutschewellenews/ ►Twitter: https://twitter.com/dwnews Für Videos in deutscher Sprache besuchen Sie: https://www.youtube.com/dwdeutsch Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/user/deutschewelleenglish?sub_confirmation=1

NYC's America 250 Celebration: Fireworks, Parades and Festivals

NYC's America 250 Celebration: Fireworks, Parades and Festivals

DSA Propaganda? NBC Celebrates Play Based on Actors Probed for Being Commies

DSA Propaganda? NBC Celebrates Play Based on Actors Probed for Being Commies In perhaps a preview of coming attractions from the liberal media when more communists join the ranks of Congress in January, NBC’s 3rd Hour of Today promoted on Thursday a new off-Broadway play fretting over those in Hollywood who were investigated by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in the post-World War II era for alleged communist ties. One of the cast members — far-left actress Molly Ringwald — went as far as to claim “we are in that sort of environment now” in America, ostensibly because of Donald Trump. Presumably, these people will not be caught dead performing a play about, say, Whittaker Chambers or Rebecca West. It came near the end of the segment discussing the play with Ringwald and fellow cast member Bob Odenkirk when she conceded, “it’s a story that’s always really been interesting too, from the time I started in Hollywood” when she heard of the time period because she “didn’t learn about the McCarthy Era in school.” Ringwald explained she had made a supposed faux pas early in her career by telling someone at a dinner that one of the people she would like to work with was filmmaker and playwright Elia Kazan, who was briefly a Communist Party member in the mid-1930s before renouncing his ties and turning over names of communists to Congress. “I said, I really love to work with Ilya Kazan, and she said, oh, what would you call it, naming names? And then I went back to work the next day. And I said — I told my friend, BJ, and he freaked out, and he said, ‘But they already had every name. They already had it, you know,’” she said. It was then she — who plays Lillian Hellman in the show — alluded to the supposed connection and blacklisting of those in Hollywood now, supposedly at the hands of Trump: “And I thought, oh, this is interesting. So, I started to do a lot of research about it, and it really was this time in American history that you think can never come back, and yet, we are in that sort of environment now.” NBC's '3rd Hour of Today' touted a new play starring Molly Ringwald and Bob Odenkirk decrying the House Un-American Activities Committee and its work following WWII investigating communist spies in America Ringwald says we're living through another witch hunt right now: It pic.twitter.com/jhH4nwgKCr — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 9, 2026 Earlier in the segmenT, Odenkirk shared the background of the actor he plays, Lionel Standard, who went onto play the butler in the early 1980s show Hart to Hart. Showing his lefty bona fides, Odenkirk also lamented that the post-World War II era “was a very tough time for the whole country” (click “expand”): [H]e was an actor his whole entire life, and he — he appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee twice to say that he was not a communist. But it didn’t matter, just having his name associated with this whole thing then he was blacklisted. He ended up not — you know, struggling for work, doing nightclubs, going to Europe for a couple of years. It’s one of the reasons he’s in Once Upon a Time in America. He’s in that movie because it was shot in Italy. But he struggled for work for about 15 years, and then was — slowly found his way back to another career in showbiz. But it was a very tough time for the whole country, and certainly for people in the arts, because for some reason, everybody got very scared, and excited about who might have been a communist, or even just attended a meeting, or been friends with someone who was, and it became this blacklist, and people didn’t work, and were forced to testify. And so — some — the play is, as you point out, transcripts from the actual hearings that a great playwright Eric Bentley cut together, and you see every side of it. You see people who name names, Ilya Kazan, and other people like that. You see people who fight and push back. You see every side of it. It’s very entertaining. It’s got humor. My character, Lionel Standard, just gave ‘em a big — gave ‘em the finger. NBC was so excited they teased it not once or twice, but three times. In the first two, co-host Craig Melvin boasted Odenkirk and Ringwald were working on a “powerful” and “really cool project” while, in the other, NBC News NOW’s Savannah Sellers said they teamed up for a “new project...about an infamous time in our country’s history.” Cuing up the pair during the interview (see below), Melvin delivered his synopsis of the play, Are You Now or Have You Ever Been?: NBC's '3rd Hour of Today' touted a new play starring Molly Ringwald and Bob Odenkirk decrying the House Un-American Activities Committee and its work following WWII investigating communist spies in America Ringwald says we're living through another witch hunt right now: It pic.twitter.com/jhH4nwgKCr — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 9, 2026 So, the play follows the work of the infamous 1940s House Un-American Activities Committee, which investigated anyone suspected of having communist ties, including some powerful members of Hollywood as well. Molly, Bob, good morning to both of you. Love the concept. For folks who may not be familiar with this particular part of American history, the play, we should point out, based on actual transcripts from those committee meetings. One of many long-running liberal lies, the various congressional entities, ranging from HUAC to what then-Senator Joseph McCarthy (R-WI) was up to in the Senate, were, in fact, onto something and it wasn’t without merit. Just over a week ago, The Federalist’s Hayden Daniel addressed this in an excellent column, “McCarthyism Didn’t Go Far Enough To Root Out Filthy Commies, So Now We Have Modern NYC.” Here’s an excerpt of his history lesson (click “expand”): Enter Sen. Joseph McCarthy, R-Wis. In 1950, McCarthy gave a speech in Wheeling, West Virginia, warning, “Today we are engaged in a final, all-out battle between communistic atheism and Christianity. The modern champions of communism have selected this as the time. And, ladies and gentlemen, the chips are down — they are truly down.” (....) The perjury conviction of Alger Hiss, who had been accused of spying for the Soviet Union while an official at the State Department, gave some validity to McCarthy’s charges. (....) Thus, largely thanks to the media, McCarthyism became a byword for cynical witch hunts and needless censorship...But he was right. The Communist Party USA had more than 37,000 members in 1950, and it received a generous subsidy directly from the Soviet Union. (....) The Venona project, a counter-intelligence operation run by the National Security Agency from 1943 to 1980, found the communists had indeed infiltrated the Roosevelt and Truman administrations. The communications intercepted by the project showed that top officials in multiple departments....were in regular contact with the Soviet government. (....) Several scientists...who had worked on the Manhattan Project, steadily fed atomic secrets to the Russians, allowing them to break America’s atomic monopoly[.] To see the relevant NBC transcript from July 9, click here. Curtis Houck Thu, 07/09/2026 - 14:31 Marketing Timing Regular Search Engine Title DSA Propaganda? NBC Celebrates Play Based on Actors Probed for Being Commies CNS Commentary Off

Between 3am to 5am on Sunday 5 July: Trump's fireworks made Washington world's most polluted city

Washington briefly became the world's most polluted major city after a massive Independence Day fireworks display in the US capital caused dangerous spikes in air pollution, though rain later cleared the smoke.

[Photo] Explosions in the city of Kerman in southeastern Iran.

Explosions in the city of Kerman in southeastern Iran.

Jordan Pickford hails 'special night' after goalkeeper produces one of his best performances in England shirt

Jordan Pickford has hailed a special night after producing one of his best performances in an England shirt.The Three Lions No1 faced 20 shots against Mexico, making several spectacular saves as England hung on for a 3-2 win.It was unreal. A lot of emotions, a lot of positives. We showed resilience, showed character. It wasn't pretty at times. It just had everything that puts you on the edge of your seat; that's what football's about. It shows our togetherness, and it was a special night, Pickford told the BBC. TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say I think you saw the standard I set myself tonight in producing saves in big moments, coming for crosses, it's where I aim to be and keep improving. Big moments in big times, that's where I am.I'm one of the most experienced lads in the group and when called upon you've got to roll your sleeves up. It was a great game for me, and that's a standard in itself.England won the match thanks to a brace from Jude Bellingham and a well-taken penalty by Harry Kane.LATEST SPORTS NEWSWilliam urges England to triumph in quarter-final after incredible win over MexicoThomas Tuchel hits out at referees for being 'not good enough' in England's victory over MexicoHarry Kane and Jude Bellingham fire England past Mexico in chaotic World Cup matchThe England captain could barely speak after the game, in what will go down as one of the most memorable interviews in Three Lions history.My voice has gone, Kane laughed. It was a crazy game, we had to fight. We had to find something.I've just been singing there, I can't really talk.Everything was against us, we found a way. I'm speechless, I can't even talk, he told ITV.Bellingham urged England fans to take the day off work and continue their celebrations after inspiring the Three Lions through.Asked what message he had for fans back home, Bellingham said: Have another shot and text your bosses to say you're not coming in tomorrow. That's about it.My god, if you can't enjoy a night like this, just for one night, then I don't know what it's worth.The 23-year-old also admitted he could only imagine the scenes unfolding across England as supporters celebrated deep into Monday morning.I can imagine it's carnage, he said.No matter where you're from or what you do I can imagine everyone is together.That is the thing I dream of, being a part of this England squad, bringing my country together, giving them nights like this that they will enjoy for many years to come.I am so proud of this team. What we have done tonight is spectacular.Our Standards: The GB News Editorial Charter

Illegal 4th of July fireworks over Los Angeles seen from space

Illegal fireworks lit up the Los Angeles skyline this 4th of July, and it was so bright, the flashes could even be seen from space. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/ktla?sub_confirmation=1