Trump moves to placate a restive base • Shootings in New York City up 205% in weeks since disbandment of plainclothes unit compared to last year • Chicago suffers another bloody weekend during Independence Day celebrations

Niagara Falls region becomes ground zero in the coronavirus-era war on drugs • 'A real problem:' Devin Nunes says Russian bounty leakers 'investigating themselves' • WATCH: Trump attends Independence Day fireworks celebration at Mount Rushmore

MOST READ: Attorney General William Barr's team startled in 'first chance' to assess Mueller investigation: Book • Michael Flynn recites oath of office using slogan associated with QAnon - “Where we go one, we go all!” - “God bless America” • Armed protesters demonstrate in front of Confederate carving on Stone Mountain • WHO admits China never reported the existence of coronavirus outbreak Washington Examiner

Trump’s Mount Rushmore Speech Has Already Saved Statues • Trump’s Independence Day Speech Was Not ‘Dark’ Or ‘Divisive,’ It Was American • You Know What’s The Ultimate ‘Place Of Privilege’? Living In The USA • Catholic Schools, Cut The ‘White Privilege’ Lectures And Teach About Marxism’s Evils

Democrat Senator: Founding Fathers And American Heroes Are ‘Dead Traitors’ • New York City Councilwoman Freaks Out Over White Man Holding Black Child: ‘It Hurts People’ • CDC: After 10-Week Decline In COVID-19 Deaths, It May Soon No Longer Be An Epidemic • Twitter Will Drop ‘Blacklist,’ ‘Whitelist,’ ‘Man Hours’ From Its Code And Docs

MOST READ: Biden Campaign Refuses To Release Cognitive Test Results • Schiff Learned Of Russian ‘Bounty’ Intelligence In February, Withheld Information From Congress, And Took No Action’ • We Can’t Have ‘National Dialogues’ If People Get Fired For Talking Honestly • Nikole Hannah-Jones’ Hatred For America Is The Basis Of The 1619 Project

If You Really Believe Black Lives Matter, Stop Supporting Black Lives Matter • Americans Should Never Again Comply With Pandemic Lockdown Orders • Marcellus Wiley: Painting ‘Black Lives Matter’ On NBA Courts Is A Bad Idea, Read BLM’s Mission Statement • The Democrat Party Is Destroying America The Federalist

CORRUPTION CHRONICLES: Judicial Watch Sues State Department for Requests of Former U.N. Ambassador Samantha Power to Unmask Identities of U.S. Citizens

“Investigating the Investigators:” Left Effort to Ban Cops from Using Tear Gas Against Lawless Protestors Crushed by Court

Judicial Watch Sues Washington D.C. Government for First Amendment Access to Paint Message on D.C. Street

The Supreme Court’s Habeas Corpus Ruling & Border Security Judicial Watch

OUTING FAKE NEWS OMISSIONS and DISTORTIONS: On Defund PBS: PBS Really Went Too Far This Time - Facebook Report Blurs Candace Owens with Extremists Who Killed a Black Cop • New York Times HATE: Trump July 4th Speech: ‘Exploits Race...to Stoke Fear’ in Whites • NBC Meet the Press Andrea Mitchell Rips Susan Rice: Not the 'Best Messenger' for a Tough Russia Policy - “Lies are very easy on National TV” • Science! CNN Medical Analyst Calls Trump a 'Cult Leader Who is Jumping Off the Cliff'

Potential Biden VP Senator Tammy Duckworth Refuses to Rule Out Taking Down Washington Statues! “Well, let me just say that we should start off by having a National Dialogue on it.” • Washington Post Distorts Trump's Mount Rushmore Speech as Screed Defending 'White Domination' • Happy July 4th From New York Times: 'President Trump Delivered a Dark and Divisive Speech' • On Defund PBS: Links Republicans to Racism, Wrongly Implies Alabama Governor George Wallace Was Republican - When In Fact, He Was a Lifelong Democrat News Busters

Government okays closure of event halls, culture venues, gyms and nightclubs • Ministers said to okay shutting bars, gyms and pools, but leave synagogues open • Palestinians protest day after scuffle with settlers • Fearing sanctions, Palestinian banks refusing to pay out terror stipends

Where we went wrong: Expert says these 3 blunders caused new Israeli COVID chaos • With Iran in its sights, Israel launches new spy satellite into orbit • Israel was behind blast at Iran nuclear site, Mideast intel official tells New York Times • Driver in fatal 2015 West Bank terror ramming sentenced to life

MOST READ: Report: Israeli cyberattack caused Iran nuclear site fire, F35s hit missile base • Iran warns Israel, U.S. after fire at nuclear site, amid reports bomb caused blaze • UN suspends 2 for suspected involvement in video showing sex act in Tel Aviv • As virus soars, Netanyahu declares renewed limits on gatherings, prayers, events Times of Israel

Potential Joe Biden running mate mayor tells Black Lives Matter 'enough is enough' after eight-year-old girl is shot dead as her mom drove through barricade where Rayshard Brooks was killed

'This shows these anarchists have no bounds' President Trump hits out after statue of black abolitionist Frederick Douglass is hacked from its base in Rochester and damaged beyond repair on the 168th anniversary of his Fourth of July address • Image of Thomas Jefferson alongside black descendant holds 'mirror' to America: Sixth-great-grandson of the President and his slave Sally Hemings says his life shows Americans 'have more in common than some may think'

Nightmare in New York: How Covid-19, BLM protests and a liberal mayor are turning the city into a no-go zone as murders skyrocket, shops are looted and 500,000 middle-class residents flee • 'Let's say we didn't knock politely': Officer describes how FBI agents smashed down Ghislaine Maxwell's door and hauled her off in handcuffs after she gave them the slip in year-long $5m game of 'cat and mouse'

Family of Vanessa Guillen says Army investigators have positively identified remains found in a shallow grave as belonging to the Fort Hood solider who vanished two months ago • Sorting the mail and blazing a trail: Remembering the unsung Black female soldiers of WWII who helped boost morale by delivering 17 million pieces of backlogged mail that was stored in aircraft hangars for two years Daily Mail

Beijing ‘is ready to counter U.S.’ as both navies hold drills in South China Sea • Coronavirus: China tweaks graduate employment rate to include students who find ‘work’ as gamers, bloggers • China’s shadow banking system under spotlight as Sichuan Trust misses payments amid economic slowdown

National security law: legislation already having deterrent effect, Hong Kong police chief tells CCTV in rare state television appearance • Bull market momentum builds up in China stocks as benchmark and turnover surge to multi-year highs • Chinese envoy accuses UK of ‘gross interference’ over citizenship offer to Hongkongers

TOperation Bashi Channel: the next flashpoint in the China-U.S. military rivalry • Hong Kong national security law: Top U.S. diplomat criticises legislation on programme by city’s public broadcaster • Chinese army releases footage of Hong Kong garrison’s drills • China issues Canada travel warning, as ties sour over national security law

North Korea Nuclear Crisis: North Korea’s Kim scolds officials for coronavirus complacency / China expert on North Korea sees Pyongyang-Washington talks resuming / South Korea official hits out at ‘chaotic’ U.S. approach to North South China Morning Post

Coronavirus latest: Louvre reopens, Swiss make masks mandatory on public transport • Louvre museum reopens after 4-month shutdown

Ex-Nazi death camp guard faces German court reckoning • Germany: Study halted into racial profiling by police • Hajj cancellation leaves Mecca lifeless

From programmer to gangster boss: The unbelievable story of Paul le Roux • Coronavirus: German military training sniffer dogs - Sniffer dogs can detect explosives and drugs, but can they also detect COVID-19? • Russian journalist Svetlana Prokopyeva found guilty of 'inciting terrorism' • China detains professor who criticized Xi Jinping Deutsche Welle

China & India pull troops away, set up ‘buffer zone’ in Himalayas weeks after bloody border clash - reports • China slams U.S. for ‘flexing muscles’ in South China Sea as aircraft carriers sent to ‘celebrate Independence Day’ • ‘Not under colonial rule:’ Chinese ambassador to UK slams ‘gross interference’ by British over Hong Kong security law

Russian court fines journalist for column ‘justifying terrorism’ in high-profile controversial case • Russian economic activity picks up as coronavirus-related restrictions ease • Statue for black abolitionist Frederick Douglass in New York state beyond repair after it was ripped down by vandals (PHOTOS)

‘You can’t blame it on police’, Atlanta mayor says after 8yo black girl shot dead during protest • White supremacy, or harmless gesture? Oregon police say cop accused of racist hand signal was simply checking protester was OK • JK Rowling says she got ‘death & rape threats’… but doubles down on transgender position RT Russia Today