The group was spotted at Union Station and Eastern Market Metro Station in Washington, D.C., on Independence Day. Eastern Market Station is one of the closest stations to the Capitol.

Videos posted on social media showed people marching wearing their signature blue shirts, chinos and white face coverings. Some wore hats with the Patriot Front logo on them. The group marched to the beat of drums outside Union Station, the city’s main train station, and held flags that included an upside-down American flag and a Confederate flag, in a video shared on social media by WTOP reporter Mitchell Miller.

America 250: US 4th of July Live Updates

A photo from Reuters shows a group riding the subway in Washington, D.C., on the morning of July 4. The newspaper reported that the Patriot Front also posted on social media that they had arrived in Washington.

A recent NBC News poll sponsored by More Perfect, a nonpartisan nonprofit focused on strengthening democracy, found that nearly 8 in 10 Americans said they would be willing to attend a Fourth of July party attended by someone whose political views differ significantly from their own.

The findings suggest that while political division remains a defining feature of American life, many people remain open to celebrating, volunteering, and interacting with those with opposing views. Respondents expressed a broad willingness to share everyday experiences across political divides.

Some areas were separated from others. While Americans were generally comfortable putting politics aside in public and community settings, they were even more divided when it came to romantic relationships and whether to marry or live with a partner whose political beliefs differed significantly from their own.

Iran is holding a mass funeral procession for Ayatollah Khamenei, whose 37-year reign ended in February with the war’s first airstrikes launched by the United States and Israel, in a show of its people’s dedication to the Islamic Republic’s theocratic state and revolutionary fervor.

Television footage showed his coffin draped in the Iranian flag and draped with a black turban. It was placed, along with four other coffins of slain family members, on a large black platform resembling the Kaaba, the cube-shaped structure at the center of Islam’s holiest site in Mecca.

The vast courtyard of the Imam Khomeini Grand Mosallah complex was filled with mourners, many waving Iranian flags and holding pictures of the slain leader.

President Donald Trump took the first flight of the new Air Force One, a $400 million gift from Qatar, but the aircraft has faced ethical and security objections from adversaries and allies alike. He jetted to North Dakota to tour the new Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library ahead of the nation’s 250th anniversary. The Boeing 747-B, dubbed the “Palace in the Sky,” will be used while Boeing builds two new Presidential 747s scheduled for 2028. It will then be housed in President Trump’s future library. “There are two things you can do. You can be subtle, or you can show off,” Trump said before boarding the jet.

Riding the Freedom 250: President Trump rides the rail to the Roosevelt Library. photograph

“Screwworm fly factory” is in operation

The United States is going to war against the New World screwworm with an army of hundreds of millions of sterile flies. Joining Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum in Metapa, Mexico, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins presided over the opening of a $50 million, 22,000-square-foot “grass fly factory” to mass breed sterile flies to mate with wild flies to control the parasitic pest that has spread across the Texas border. The larvae burrow into the meat of cattle and can be fatal if untreated, devastating wildlife and causing financial ruin for ranchers.

“A nation’s identity is its destiny,” he told the audience gathered for a speech commemorating America’s 250th anniversary. Trump, wearing a blue suit and purple tie, stood beneath the 60-foot-tall faces of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt.

He warned the crowd about what he had portrayed as the “communist” threat posed by progressive Democrats.

“On the eve of America’s 250th anniversary of freedom, we resolve to hear from the people of the United States that we will defeat communism from our shores and banish it once and for all. America will never become a communist country,” he said.

President Trump read a picture book to children in the Oval Office on June 3rd, while appearing on Second Lady Usha Vance’s podcast, “Second Lady Storytime.” The podcast, launched nearly three months ago to promote literacy among children, featured special guests including her husband, Vice President JD Vance, and Inter Miami CF soccer player Ian Frey. The podcast has nearly 6,000 subscribers on YouTube.

Trump, guest number 10, poked fun at his predecessors, but was also uncharacteristically modest.

The 24-page book “Presidents Play!” – Published by the White House Historical Society in 2020, this book features illustrations of presidents exercising, playing sports, and relaxing on the White House grounds despite their busy schedules.