| No Images? Click here  Tuesday, July 2RNC GIVING OUT TICKETS TO TRUMP’S JULY 4 CELEBRATION President Donald Trump has hijacked what for decades had been a nonpolitical Independence Day celebration on the National Mall, packing his ticketed speech with political appointees and Republican donors. [HuffPost]DEMS DESCRIBE BORDER HORROR Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) said migrant women at a Customs and Border Patrol facility in Texas were held in cells without water and told by officers to drink out of the toilet. [HuffPost]15-YEAR-OLD DEFEATS VENUS WILLIAMS Tennis prodigy Cori “Coco” Gauff, 15, beat five-time Wimbledon champion Venus Williams 6-4, 6-4, in a historic victory. Just last week, Gauff became the youngest tennis player in the Open era -- which began in 1968 -- to qualify for Wimbledon’s main event. [HuffPost]HONDORAN HELD BY ICE DIES IN CUSTODY A Honduran man held by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for several weeks died Sunday after being found unresponsive in his detention cell. Yimi Alexis Balderramos-Torres, 30, was detained on June 6 after attempting to enter the U.S. for the second time this year, ICE said. [HuffPost]MAN FALLS TO DEATH FROM PLANE OVER LONDON A man’s body was found in a London garden. Police believe the man was a stowaway who fell to his death from the landing gear of a plane flying overhead. The man plummeted just feet away from a Clapham resident in south London who had been sunbathing in the garden, a neighbor told the BBC. [HuffPost]FREAK HAIL STORM COVERS GUADALAJARA IN ICE A freak hail storm on Sunday struck Guadalajara, one of Mexico’s most populous cities, shocking residents and trapping vehicles in a deluge of ice pellets up to six feet deep. [AFP]
 Become one of our first official super fans. Call yourself a founding member of HuffPost Plus forever.  HONG KONG PROTESTORS STORM LEGISLATURE Hong Kong police fired tear gas to try to disperse hundreds of protesters, some of whom stormed the legislature, destroyed pictures and daubed walls with graffiti, on the anniversary of the city’s 1997 return to Chinese rule on Monday. [Reuters]BORDER PATROL HEAD CONDEMNS FACEBOOK GROUP The head of the U.S. Border Patrol on Monday slammed as “completely inappropriate” sexually explicit posts about Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and comments questioning the authenticity of a photo of a drowned man and his young daughter in a secret Facebook group for agents. [AP]TRUMP: RAIDS BACK ON AFTER 4TH Trump announced that the immigration raids he threatened to launch last month are back on. “After July 4, a lot of people are going to be brought back out,” he said. [HuffPost]PROTESTERS DEMAND CIVILIAN RULE IN SUDAN Thousands of protesters marched toward Sudan’s defense ministry, demanding the ruling military hand over power to civilians, as security forces fired shots into the air. [Reuters]IS TRUMP TOAST? THIS DATA MODEL SAYS SO The data model that correctly predicted last year’s Democratic “blue wave” victory in the midterm elections says Trump may have already lost in 2020. The model by Rachel Bitecofer, which doesn’t rely on polls, predicts Trump will lose three key states: Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin. [HuffPost]BLOOD ON PORTLAND’S STREETS A conservative writer was injured over the weekend at a rally in Portland, Oregon, kicking off a tidal wave of right-wing complaints about violence on the left. But Saturday’s violence wasn’t an outlier. It’s been happening on the same streets, hosted by the same far-right extremist groups, on a regular basis, since Trump’s election. [HuffPost]
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