Shooting at Riverchase Galleria in Hoover; at least 4 injured - al.com
https://www.al.com/news/2020/07/shooting-at-riverchase-galleria-in-hoover.html

A driver believed to have been speeding crashed their car through the roof of a Texas beauty salon early Friday, sending the driver to the hospital and significantly damaging the business. A witness said that she was opening her Northeast Houston business at around 5 a.m. when she heard the car. The witness estimated the vehicle was going around 100 miles per hour. A driver lost control of the car while trying to make a turn. The vehicle hit a curb and went airborne before plowing through the hair salon. Salon owner Jennifer Johnson estimated the crash caused around $300,000 in damage. She told the station she had a “full list of clients” scheduled for Friday. "I'm at a loss for words," she said, adding that she now has to “figure out how I'm going to re-establish my salon." The unidentified driver was initially trapped inside the wreckage before being extracted by firefighters. Reports say the driver was taken to a local hospital and is expected to survive.

🔹POLICE IN "WHITE CITY, LONDON" ARE IN FOR A LONG NIGHT❗️

🔹THE SCUMBAGS BLM HAVE STARTED RIOTING AGAIN TONIGHT.

#AllLivesMatter

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Seats are spaced by cardboard cutouts of movie characters aimed at social distancing ahead of the reopening of the Arena Cinelounge theatre in Los Angeles, California, June 17, 2020. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni

A motorcycle rider tries to protect his eyes as he drives through a swarm of desert locusts at the village of Lorengippi near the town of Lodwar, Turkana county, Kenya, July 2, 2020. Numbers of locusts exploded in East Africa and the Red Sea region in late 2019, exacerbated by atypical weather patterns amplified by climate change. REUTERS/Baz Ratner

America's Birthday: a large American flag was unfurled from the skybridge in Gatlinburg, Tennessee.

President Trump took the stage in the shadow of Mount Rushmore on Friday night to condemn what he described as a "merciless campaign to wipe out our history, defame our heroes, erase our values, and indoctrinate our children" in an address to mark the beginning of Independence Day weekend. "This monument will never be desecrated," the president vowed early in his speech. The president also castigated left-wing activists and practitioners of so-called "cancel culture" who have targeted statues and monuments of historical figures across America in recent weeks. "This movement is openly attacking the legacies of every person on Mount Rushmore ..." Trump said. "Those who seek to erase our heritage want Americans to forget our pride and our great dignity, so that we can no longer understand ourselves or America’s destiny. In toppling the heroes of 1776, they seek to dissolve the bonds of love and loyalty that we feel for our country, and for each other."

Meanwhile, somewhere in Brazil

BREAKING: SPEEDING MERCEDES HITS TWO PROTESTORS AT FULL SPEED IN SEATTLE! Not sure what condition they are in; will continue to update!

A police officer was fatally shot outside a Home Depot store just after midnight Saturday in Toledo, Ohio. The officer was identified as Anthony Dia. “It is with deep regret that we announce the loss of Toledo police officer Anthony Dia, who was shot and killed in the line of duty at approximately 12:03 tonight (Saturday morning,” Toledo fire Chief Brian Byrd said. Multiple gunshots were heard in a social media video posted from the crime scene. Eyewitnesses say they saw the suspect shoot the officer, who was responding to a call about a person causing a disturbance in the parking lot. There was no immediate indication that a suspect had been arrested or identified. There was no immediate indication that a suspect had been arrested or identified. Toledo police Chief George Kral was expected to hold a news conference at 6 a.m. Saturday. #RIP

10 years. 20 million gigabytes of data. 425 million hi-res images of the Sun. A new time-lapse video from Solar Dynamics Observatory.