| No Images? Click here  Friday, July 5TOTAL HOLIDAY TAKEOVER President Donald Trump, who five decades ago claimed “bone spurs” to avoid a war because he was “never a fan” finally got the military celebration he has wanted since taking office ― but with tepid attendance and a low-energy speech whose reviews are likely to stoke a fresh round of pique from the man who delivered it. [HuffPost]6.4 MAGNITUDE EARTHQUAKE RATTLES SOCAL A 6.4 magnitude earthquake, the region’s strongest in 20 years, shook a large swath of Southern California and parts of Nevada on Thursday, rattling nerves on the July 4th holiday and causing some damage in a town near the epicenter amid its aftershocks. [AP]AMASH QUITS REPUBLICAN PARTY Rep. Justin Amash, the only Republican in Congress to call for Trump’s impeachment, celebrated this Fourth of July by declaring his independence from the Republican Party. In his Washington Post op-ed, he called for the public to reject “the partisan loyalties and rhetoric that divide and dehumanize us.” [HuffPost]STEVE KING SHARES TWEET CALLING HIMSELF A WHITE SUPREMACIST Disgraced Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), who was stripped of his House committee assignments this year over his white nationalist rhetoric, got duped twice in one night on Twitter. One tweet that he shared called him a white supremacist, and another suggested he drinks pee. [HuffPost]BRITISH ROYAL MARINES STORM IRANIAN SUPER TANKER British Royal Marines in Gibraltar stormed an Iranian ship believed to have been carrying oil to Syria on Thursday, in possible violation of European Union sanctions on Syria. Spain's acting foreign minister, Josep Borrell, said the United States had asked the UK to intercept the ship. [CNN]U.S. NAMED ONE OF WORST TRASH OFFENDERS The U.S. is one of the world’s top offenders when it comes to its creation and management of solid waste, according to an alarming new study. The report found that the U.S. produces 12% of global municipal solid waste, despite it representing just 4% of the world’s population. [HuffPost]
 Become one of our first official super fans. Call yourself a founding member of HuffPost Plus forever.  IRAN THREATENS TO ENRICH URANIUM Iranian President Hassan Rouhani announced Wednesday that his country would begin to enrich uranium in “any amount that we want” as early as Sunday. This escalation comes just days after Iran said it had blown past the uranium stockpile limits established in the 2015 Iran nuclear deal — which Trump withdrew the U.S. from last year. [HuffPost]ANCHORAGE, ALASKA, SHATTERS HEAT RECORD Thermometers in Anchorage hit 90 degrees Fahrenheit (about 32 degrees Celsius) for the first time on record this Thursday. The National Weather Service said temperatures around the city were unusually high thanks to a massive heat dome that’s settled over Alaska. [HuffPost]UN: LIBYAN GUARDS REPORTEDLY SHOT AT FLEEING REFUGEES The United Nations said Thursday it had information that Libyan guards shot at refugees and migrants trying to flee from airstrikes that killed at least 53 people, including six children, in a migrant detention center late on Tuesday. [Reuters]ACLU VOWS TO SUE TRUMP OVER CENSUS QUESTION The American Civil Liberties Union on Wednesday pledged to take the Trump administration to court once more should the president follow through on his renewed efforts to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census. [HuffPost]UN INVESTIGATOR WARNS OF POSSIBLE WAR CRIMES IN MYANMAR The U.N. Human Rights Council was told Tuesday that both Myanmar’s military and the Arakan Army, an armed guerrilla group that’s been fighting for more autonomy for the state’s ethnic Rakhine Buddhists, may be guilty of violating international humanitarian law. [HuffPost]SCIENTISTS FEAR EXTINCTION OF RARE WHALES Concerned scientists are sounding the alarm over the loss of six rare North Atlantic right whales off the Canadian coast in a single month. There are only some 400 of the animals left on Earth, and fewer than 100 of them are females of reproductive age. [HuffPost]
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