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  • Fireworks explode during Salute to America, an Independence Day event honoring the nation’s 250th anniversary, Saturday, July 4, 2026, on the National Mall in Washington. (Photo: AP)
  • President Donald Trump speaks at Salute to America, an Independence Day event honoring the nation’s 250th anniversary, Saturday, July 4, 2026, on the National Mall in Washington. (Photo: AP)
  • People crowd Pennsylvania Avenue after they were evacuated from the National Mall ahead of severe weather at an Independence Day event and fireworks honoring the nation’s 250th anniversary, Saturday, July 4, 2026, in Washington. (Photo: AP)
  • People take cover in the Ronald Reagan Federal Building after evacuating the National Mall due to weather while attending Independence Day events honoring the nation’s 250th anniversary, Saturday, July 4, 2026, in Washington. (Photo: AP)
  • People sit after they were evacuated from the National Mall ahead of severe weather at an Independence Day event and fireworks honoring the nation’s 250th anniversary, Saturday, July 4, 2026, in Washington. (Photo: AP)
  • People watch fireworks explode over the New York City skyline as seen from the Brooklyn Borough of New York during the 4th of July celebration on Saturday, July 4, 2026. (Photo: AP)
  • People watch fireworks explode over the New York City skyline as seen from the Brooklyn Borough of New York during the 4th of July celebration on Saturday, July 4, 2026. (Photo: AP)

Trump mixes patriotism with partisanship as he celebrates America’s ‘joyous’ 250th anniversary

WASHINGTON, July 5, 2026 (AP) — President Donald Trump mixed partisan politics with patriotic appeals on Saturday as he commemorated the 250th anniversary of American independence, a moment he declared “one of the most joyous and glorious milestones of all time.” Speaking in Washington after storms prompted a roughly two-hour evacuation of the National Mall,

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  • President Donald Trump greets Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni during summit to support ending the more than two-year Israel-Hamas war in Gaza after a breakthrough ceasefire deal, Oct. 13, 2025, in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. (Photo: AP/File)
  • President Donald Trump speaks with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni at a working lunch with leaders of G7 and the Middle East in Evian-les-Bains, France, Tuesday, June 16, 2026. (Photo: AP/File)
  • Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, left, attends a joint press conference with French President Emmanuel Macron, right, as part of a Franco-Italian summit in Antibes, southern France, Thursday, June 25, 2026. (Photo: AP)
  • French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer attend a press conference at the E5 NATO Summit in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, June 24, 2026. (Photo: AP)
  • From left to right, Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk, French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer attend a press conference at the E5 NATO Summit in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, June 24, 2026. (Photo: AP)
  • Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni attends a joint press conference with French President Emmanuel Macron as part of a Franco-Italian summit in Antibes, southern France, Thursday, June 25, 2026. (Photo: AP)

Facing barbs and pressure from Trump, Europe’s leaders close ranks

ROME, July 2, 2026 (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump’s attacks on Italy’s premier have had an unintended consequence. After Trump questioned Italy’s reliability as a wartime ally and claimed Giorgia Meloni had groveled for his attention, European leaders rallied to Meloni’s side, thawing what had been a frosty relationship over her hard-right political roots.

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  • US President Donald Trump said Wednesday he is not involved in managing his finances, insisting outside funds handle his investments. While disclosures show he made about $1.2 billion from cryptocurrency ventures last year, Trump said rising stock market gains have boosted his wealth. (Photo: Video grab/AP)
  • Donald Trump holds a Playboy magazine and gold Trump sneakers at Sneaker Con Philadelphia, an event popular among sneaker collectors, in Philadelphia, Feb. 17, 2024. (Photo: AP/File)
  • The front cover of Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump’s “God Bless the USA” Bible in Washington, Oct. 8, 2024. (Photo: AP/File)

Crypto, real estate, watches: How Trump made over $1 billion last year

NEW YORK, July 2, 2026 (AP) — The real estate mogul has become the billion-dollar crypto man. President Donald Trump’s latest financial disclosure report showed he took in about $1.2 billion last year from various crypto holdings, overshadowing a real estate business that brought him fame and helped propel him to the nation’s top office.

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Activists celebrate the Supreme Court’s birthright citizenship ruling outside of the Supreme Court on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, June 30, 2026, in Washington. (Photo: AP)

The divided US Supreme Court’s birthright citizenship decision exposes sharp rifts among justices

WASHINGTON, July 1, 2026 (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court’s divided ruling that children born in the U.S. are citizens under the Fourteenth Amendment — even if their parents are in the country unlawfully or only temporarily — exposed deep fissures in the justices’ views on the issue and toward each other. The court’s two

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