July 4th, 2019

A great crowd of tremendous Patriots this evening, all the way back to the Washington Monument! #SaluteToAmerica🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/nJghdfqIhX

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 5, 2019

The world’s tallest building @BurjKhalifa in #Dubai lit up in American 🇺🇸 flag on #IndependeceDay
Happy #4thofJuly to all our American friends, love, from the #UAE 🇦🇪@USAinUAE @UAEEmbassyUS pic.twitter.com/CRKxCrijJE

— حسن سجواني 🇦🇪 Hassan Sajwani (@HSajwanization) July 4, 2019

The futuristic 700-MPH mass transit system takes a small step closer to reality...

Although computers have been used in the past to help design drugs, the new vaccine was entirely independently designed by SAM, which in turn was created by South Australia's Flinders University research team.

Furthermore, this new vaccine candidate will be tested in clinical trials across the USA in 2019.

"This vaccine (A/H7N9) represents the start of a new era where AI is going to play an increasingly dominant role in drug discovery and design", said Professor Petrovsky...

Bernie Sanders keeps getting bad news.

After Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren seized the spotlight in the first primary debate, the Vermont senator dropped to fourth place in two polls in the first-in-the-nation caucus state of Iowa. In some national surveys, Sanders fared just as poorly. And though he raised an impressive $18 million over the last three months, former Vice President Joe Biden and South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg posted bigger hauls in the same period.

Inside the campaign, though, Sanders’ aides are defiant: They believe that Washington journalists are getting the presidential election wrong all over again, underestimating Sanders’ large volunteer base and mistaking temporary changes in surveys as permanent shifts in the race. They see the up-and-down polling — some of which has shown him gaining ground after the debates — as proof the primary is wide open. And they think that if Biden continues to lose support, as he did after Harris landed a blow on him in the first debate, Sanders is best positioned to win over his voters...

Iranian hard-liners have long mocked their foreign minister, Mohammed Javad Zarif, as the make-believe American...

A resident of the United States on and off for nearly 30 years, Mr. Zarif was the Iranian most closely associated with the negotiation of the 2015 deal that limited Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for relief from sweeping economic sanctions. To ordinary Iranians and reformists, that made him a hero. To hard-liners, though, he was a dupe...

Now, with the nuclear deal on the brink of collapse, with the Trump administration reimposing crushing sanctions on Iran, and Tehran threatening to restart elements of its nuclear program, Mr. Zarif is coming under renewed fire not only from hard-liners in Tehran but also from Washington. White House officials say that President Trump has requested sanctions specifically against the Iranian foreign minister, stirring debate in both countries about the administration’s intentions...

An Iranian government spokesman said the tanker had been illegally detained. The EU imposes sanctions on Syria over its treatment of civilians under President Bashar Assad. Spain's caretaker foreign minister said that the UK stopped the tanker at the request of the US...

The tanks and their ammunition were transported from the Turkish city of Edirne by cargo ship. The report says the tanks belong to Turkey’s First Army in the Evros region, where all Turkish Army tanks with 120mm projectiles are kept. According to the report, the U.S. Congress and the German government have forbidden the transfer to Cyprus of weapons systems that they have constructed...

On Wednesday, Greek military officials recorded 42 violations by Turkish aircraft which also engaged in five mock dogfights with Greek jets in the area south of Rhodes as well between Chios and Samos near the Turkish coast. On Tuesday, 12 armed F-16s conducted 30 violations in the area between Rhodes and Kastellorizo in the southeast Aegean. They also engaged in six mock dogfights with Greek aircraft...

It’s amazing how a woman fell asleep and woke up with this in her head.

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— Eoin Higgins (@EoinHiggins_) July 4, 2019

The 10:33 a.m. quake was centered in the Searles Valley, a remote area of Kern County about 100 miles north of Los Angeles, and was felt as far away as Long Beach and Las Vegas.

There were no immediate reports of fatalities, though authorities in the city of Ridgecrest were responding to dozens of emergency calls...

WHOAAAAA THATS THE BIGGEST LA EARTHQUAKE IN A WHILE!!! pic.twitter.com/i5CDwT5nEm

— Kevín (@KevOnStage) July 4, 2019

this is over by Trona pic.twitter.com/6SXodtcQ8z

— t.s. idiot (@THEjoeydavis) July 4, 2019

New thermal cloaking, insect proof uniforms are on the horizon, if the U.S. can get out in front of China.

The poll also found that the inclusion of the question was supported among members of both parties, with 88 percent of Republicans and 52 percent of Democrats supporting its inclusion. 63 percent of independents said they supported including the question on the census. "The public here agrees with the administration that it makes sense to ask citizenship on the census," Harvard CAPS/Harris Poll Director Mark Penn said.

Alitalia, Italy’s flag carrier airline, quickly faced backlash on social media for the video, which was promoting the airline’s new nonstop flight route from Rome to Washington. The video, which has since been removed from the company’s social media channels, depicted ‘Obama’ finding his way to Washington; three other videos in the series included actors playing President Trump, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln making similar trips...

According to the New York Times, an airline representative initially responded by defending the video, saying that the actor playing Obama’s character was not Caucasian and that “makeup was applied to highlight features.” (Though a photo from the actor’s Instagram page that appears to show him at the beginning of the ‘makeover’ suggests his skin was darkened for the video.)

The Spanish-language broadcaster said it has engaged Morgan Stanley, Moelis & Co. and LionTree as financial advisors as its board of directors reviews "strategic options for the company." Univision has been privately owned for more than a decade and investors, like Saban Capital Group, Madison Dearborn Partners and Providence Equity Partners, have been seeking at least a partial exit that formerly might have come via an initial public offering... Univision was hoping an IPO might have valued the company at $20 billion, and it had in 2017 turned down an offer of up to $15 billion from John Malone, who controls Lionsgate, Starz, Sirius XM Radio and other media assets.

the Lufkin Police Department said it plans to file “appropriate charges” against the suspect -- dubbed the "Lufkin Licker" in some reports -- when she is apprehended, according to a department Facebook post. "Detectives believe they have the woman identified," the post says.

On Wednesday the company said it believes it has identified the exact container that appears in the video. “Based on security footage, the location and the inspection of the carton, we believe we may have recovered the half gallon that was tampered with,” Blue Bell said, according to Fort Worth’s KTXA-TV.