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President Donald Trump launched America's 250th birthday celebrations Friday evening with a speech at Mount Rushmore, framing the anniversary around American exceptionalism and warning of a resurgent "communist menace." Remarks ran roughly an hour and were delivered against a national heatwave that has already forced cancellations of holiday events in Washington and Philadelphia.

Speech kicks off a full slate of Freedom 250 events scheduled through Saturday night, spanning the National Mall and multiple state capitals. White House officials framed the address as a broader vision for the country's next 250 years.

Iran began a dayslong funeral Saturday for late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, months after an airstrike killed him at the start of the war. He was 86 when he died.

Ceremonies will run across Iran and Iraq before burial in Mashhad, with an official six-day procession route already published. Iranian officials expect crowds in the millions across multiple cities, with heavy security in Tehran and Qom.

A wildfire southwest of Denver has burned more than 74,000 acres and destroyed over 160 structures with zero containment. Evacuation orders now cover Colorado City, Beulah, Rye and San Isabel as flames continue spreading through the region.

The Aspen Acres Fire ranks as Colorado's eighth-largest wildfire on record, and firefighters have made no progress on containment lines. Roughly 50 National Guard troops are now supporting evacuation efforts for thousands of displaced residents.

Thousands of Albanians poured into Tirana Friday night demanding Prime Minister Edi Rama's resignation, in one of the largest protest turnouts the capital has seen this year. Organizers cite corruption cases and stalled EU accession talks and have called for another rally over the weekend.

Peru's electoral tribunal declared Keiko Fujimori the winner of the presidential election weeks after voters went to the polls, ending a drawn-out recount that had left Lima on edge. Fujimori's rival is expected to challenge the result through the constitutional court.

Emmanuel Macron and Narendra Modi are publicly courting global tech CEOs as France and India compete for AI data-center investment and sovereign cloud infrastructure. Both governments are pitching aggressive tax and permitting terms designed to divert US hyperscaler capex.

The federal "Trump Accounts" savings program for children officially launches nationwide on July 4. More than six million families have already signed up for the $1,000 government-seeded accounts.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said the Democratic Party's internal divisions could complicate its 2026 midterm strategy, urging alignment around economic messaging. Jeffries did not name individual factional leaders but flagged the New York primary sweep as an example.

A year after USAID's shutdown, its former administrator sat down to reflect on what was lost and where US foreign aid goes next. The interview covers program losses, staff diaspora, and the shape of the successor architecture the State is now building out.

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Manhattan luxury real-estate sales remain strong a month after New York City passed a tax on second homes tied to the Mamdani coalition's platform. Brokers say demand has not softened at the top of the market despite the added cost.

American Express and Chase are expanding cardholder access to lounges at festivals, sporting events, and premium concert venues. Move deepens both banks' push into experiential rewards at the top of the affluent-consumer market.

CEO Jensen Huang is publicly framing humanoid robots as a "multitrillion-dollar economic opportunity" for Nvidia, tying the company's next act to physical AI rather than more chatbots. Analysts are hunting for the picks-and-shovels suppliers likely to benefit before the humanoids do.

A Welsh scientist nicknamed the "Bogfather" has spent decades rewetting degraded peatlands to lock away carbon that would otherwise vent into the atmosphere. His childhood fascination with bogs has become a template for climate-adaptation projects across the UK.

Mine engineers puzzled by unexpected airflow reversals deep underground finally cracked the case by following the rain, discovering that falling water can flip ventilation direction in vertical shafts. The finding has real implications for worker safety and gas control in deep operations.

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Messi and Argentina nearly suffered a historic upset before advancing past Cape Verde in a round-of-32 instant classic no one saw coming. Cape Verde exits its debut World Cup with a run that will be replayed on the islands for a generation.

Nathan Church and Masyn Winn each hit three-run homers as the Cardinals collected 17 hits and pounded the Cubs 17-1. St. Louis erased Chicago's four-game winning streak in one of the largest margins in the series' recent history.

Jake McCarthy homered leading off, hit a grand slam in a seven-run fifth, and drove in a career-high six runs as Colorado routed San Francisco 15-3. Rockies rarely offer these outings on the road, and San Francisco's bullpen took three separate innings of the beating.

Adam Sandler officiated Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's wedding at Madison Square Garden Friday night, a role neither the couple nor Sandler had publicly hinted at ahead of the ceremony. Guests included film, music, and NFL peers spanning both Swift's and Kelce's professional worlds.

Kane Parsons' extended version of Backrooms hits theaters with fresh footage and a full post-credit scene ahead of the next chapter in the horror franchise. Parsons' first outing became a surprise 2024 breakout, and the studio is treating this cut as the sequel bridge.

Disneyland greeted its 1 billionth guest Friday, an eight-year-old Arizonan named Andres Robles who happened to be celebrating his birthday at the Anaheim park with his parents. The milestone lands just short of the park's 71st anniversary.

NCIS is bringing back Michael Weatherly as fan-favorite agent Tony DiNozzo for its 24th season. Producers are leaning on nostalgia to reenergize the long-running franchise's next chapter.

What it is: Emergency physicians in Eugene, Oregon just beat back a national staffing firm trying to replace them, invoking a new state law that limits corporate practice of medicine. Result is one of the first live tests of statutes designed to unwind a decade-long consolidation that has put private-equity-backed staffing companies in charge of most US emergency departments.

The detail: National staffing firms — TeamHealth, Envision, US Acute Care Solutions, and a handful of smaller peers — now hold contracts covering roughly two-thirds of US emergency departments, up from about a quarter a decade ago. Eugene doctors argued their local hospital's move to bring in a national firm violated Oregon's new corporate-practice-of-medicine restrictions, and won reinstatement before the switchover took effect. Case is now being circulated inside physician associations as a template for similar disputes brewing in at least six other states.

Why it matters: Consolidation of ER staffing has coincided with rising wait times, more surprise-billing disputes, and a wave of physician burnout as staffing algorithms replace local scheduling decisions. Advocates argue the Oregon model — restricting non-physician ownership of medical practices — offers a workable legal path to reversing consolidation without touching federal antitrust law. Opponents counter that hospital economics no longer support fully physician-owned ER groups in mid-size markets, and that the ruling could push more rural hospitals to close their emergency departments outright.

What to watch: Similar bills are moving in Indiana, Colorado, California, and Washington, with several statehouses citing the Eugene outcome in floor debate this week. Watch whether the national staffing firms mount coordinated court challenges under commerce-clause and preemption arguments — and whether the physician associations can hold their coalitions together long enough to test whether Oregon's model works in a market where the hospitals themselves are already stretched thin.

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