In the US, it was an Independence Day like no other: riddled with division, stoked by outrage, and darkened by the shadow of a global pandemic | FarrahTomazin
It was an Independence Day like no other: riddled with division, stoked by outrage, and darkened by the shadow of a global pandemic.
“American heroes defeated the Nazis, dethroned the fascists, toppled the communists, saved American values, upheld American principles and chased down the terrorists to the very ends of the earth,” Trump said.A person takes a photo while waiting for fireworks on the National Mall in Washington, on July 4, 2020.
Elsewhere, protesters in Baltimore pulled down a statue of Christopher Columbus and threw it into the city's Inner Harbor - less than a day after President Trump had promised to build a “national garden of American Heroes” in response to the anti-statue movement. This included Arizona, where the number of COVID deaths now sits at 1805 after cases spiked significantly over the past week.
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