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Get you up to speed: Trump touts America’s “golden age”, attacks communism in delayed July 4th speech
President Trump delivered a speech in Washington, D.C., on July 4th, commemorating the 250th anniversary of American independence after a two-hour evacuation of the National Mall due to severe weather. The speech included tributes to veterans and comments on topics such as communism and military achievements, with no immediate confirmation of any incidents related to the evacuation.
Severe weather conditions necessitated a two-hour evacuation of the National Mall prior to President Trump’s speech. Investigations into the implications of the president’s remarks regarding communism have not been announced.
President Trump called for the approval of the SAVE America ACT to bolster election integrity, claiming it would eliminate electoral fraud. The president’s rhetoric during the speech, particularly his comments on communism, has prompted speculation about its implications for the upcoming midterm elections.
What remains unclear — The specifics of Mr. Trump’s claims regarding the sinking of the Iranian navy have not been verified.
Trump celebrates America’s 250th anniversary and criticises communism in July 4th address
President Trump paid homage to veterans, attacked communism and touted America’s “golden age” in his July 4th speech commemorating the 250th anniversary of American independence.
Speaking in Washington, D.C. after severe weather forced a two-hour evacuation of the National Mall, Mr. Trump’s delayed speech mixed politics, patriotism and history.
The president honored veterans, including several from World War II, one of the first Black officers to lead a Special Forces team in combat in Vietnam, and William Harvey Carney, who escaped slavery to join the Civil war as a Union soldier and later became the first Black man awarded the Medal of Honor.
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While listing historic American military achievements, the president included two of his own. “You look at Venezuela, you look at Iran, we wiped it out, wiped out their military,” he said, before comparing the sinking of a Spanish fleet on Manila Bay to this year’s attacks on Iran’s navy. The president said the historic event was “much like our recent victory by sinking the entire Iranian navy, 159 ships to the bottom of the sea, all done in just a moment’s time.”
In similar tones to his speech on the eve of July 4th, Mr. Trump also used this speech to attack communism, in rhetoric which some have interpreted as an attack on Democrats ahead of the midterm elections.
“Our warriors did not fight communism on battlefields across the world, only to have that menace rear its ugly head right back here in America,” the president said. “It’s like a cancer, you got to cut it out.”
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Mr. Trump once again used the opportunity to push the SAVE America ACT, which would require voters to prove they are U.S. citizens to register, and show ID before casting their ballot. “We want to keep America great, and we will do so by approving the Save America Act,” the president said. “You won’t have cheating on the elections anymore, it’s very simple.”
The president rounded out his speech where he also paid tribute to NASA astronauts past and present, police forces and farmers, by declaring that the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence is “only the dawn of the golden age of America,” and that “the best is yet to come.”
October 12, 2024
6:18 am
‘Cheer up, you caught the bad guy,’ says killer Virginia McCullough as she is arrested for murdering her parents
A woman who murdered her parents “in cold blood” before hiding them in makeshift tombs for four years told officers to “cheer up, you caught the bad guy” as she was arrested in her home.
Virginia McCullough, 36, poisoned her father John McCullough, 70, with prescription medication and fatally stabbed her mother Lois McCullough, 71, shortly afterwards in 2019.
She ran up large debts on credit cards in her parents’ names and after their deaths, she continued to spend their pensions until she was finally caught in 2023.
In body-worn video footage released by police, a handcuffed – and eerily calm – McCullough told officers: “I did know that this would kind of come eventually.
“It’s proper that I serve my punishment.”
She said she had slipped something into her father’s drink then put his body under a bed on the ground floor, and put her mother’s body in an upstairs wardrobe.
McCullough, having been arrested on suspicion of double murder, told an officer: “Cheer up, at least you’ve caught the bad guy.”
She added: “I know I don’t seem 100% evil.”
At the police station, she told officers where a kitchen knife was, which she described as a “murder weapon”, and a hammer which she said “will still have blood on it”.
McCullough, of Pump Hill, Chelmsford, Essex, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Friday with a minimum term of 36 years at Chelmsford Crown Court, after she admitted to their murders between 17 and 20 June 2019 at an earlier hearing at the same court.
Chelmsford Crown Court heard how she hid their bodies in makeshift tombs at the family home in Great Baddow in Essex, then told persistent lies to cover her tracks.
The court heard she cancelled family arrangements and frequently told doctors and relatives her parents were unwell, on holiday or away on lengthy trips.
But concerns over Mr and Mrs McCullough’s welfare were raised in September 2023 by a GP at their registered practice, and Essex County Council’s safeguarding team referred these to police.
The GP had not seen the couple for some time and said Mr McCullough had failed to collect medication and attend scheduled appointments. It was found McCullough had frequently cancelled appointments, using a range of excuses to explain her father’s absence.
Police said a missing persons investigation was initially launched and McCullough lied to officers, claiming her parents were travelling and would be returning in October.
It became a murder investigation, and when officers forced entry to the house in Pump Hill on September 15 2023, McCullough confessed that her parents’ bodies were in the house and that she had killed them.
Nicola Rice, a specialist prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service, said: “McCullough callously and viciously killed both of her parents before concealing their bodies in makeshift tombs within their home address.
“She spent the next four years manipulating and lying to family members, medical staff, financial institutions, and the police, spending her parents’ money and accruing large debts in their name.”
She added: “This was a truly disturbing case, which has left behind it a trail of devastation, and I can only hope that the sentence passed today will help those who loved and cared for Lois and John begin to heal.”
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November 23, 2024
8:25 am
Defense alliance NATO chief Mark Rutte has met US President-elect Donald Trump to discuss global security issues, according to a NATO spokesperson.
The meeting took place in Palm Beach, Florida.
During his first term as US president, 2017-2020, Trump pushed for European NATO countries to spend more on defense and described the alliance’s cost-sharing as unfair to the US.
Rutte took over as NATO chief from Norwegian Jens Stoltenberg in November.
Before taking office in January, Trump has nominated Pete Hegseth for the post of defense secretary, which has raised eyebrows among many allies.
Hegseth, 44, has served as an infantry captain in Iraq and Afghanistan, but has no senior military or government officer experience.
November 23, 2024
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November 23, 2024
8:17 am
Multiple missiles were fired in an airstrike towards a densely populated part of Lebanon’s capital early on Saturday.
The huge airstrike targeted Beirut’s Basta neighbourhood, and no prior warnings were given by the Israeli military. The largely residential area was struck last month.
At least one violent explosion was heard across the city, Reuters witnesses said, and plumes of smoke could be seen. Scenes of massive destruction at the site were shared online, including a massive crater in the ground.
“Beirut, the capital, woke up to a horrific massacre, as the Israeli enemy’s air force completely destroyed an eight-story residential building with five missiles on Al-Mamoun Street in Basta,” the state-run National News Agency reported.
The health ministry put the initial death toll at four, with 23 wounded. The number is expected to climb in the coming hours as search and rescue efforts continue.
It came after a long day of Israeli airstrikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs, which have been non-stop since last week.
The cross-border fighting between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group escalated into a full-blown war in mid-September.
Israel has bombed southern Lebanon, Beirut’s southern suburbs and the eastern Beqaa region, and has sent ground troops across the border. Hezbollah has continued to fire rockets deeper into Israel.
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