Breitbart Business Digest: The Most Expensive Independence Day — Beef, Soda, Ketchup Prices Skyrocket
It’s Independence Day in the year 2024. That means it’s time to gather with family, fire up those grills and smokers, and talk about inflation.

It’s Independence Day in the year 2024. That means it’s time to gather with family, fire up those grills and smokers, and talk about inflation.

Joey Chestnut will be gobbling down hot dogs at a contest on Independence Day, however, instead of doing it at Coney Island. He’ll be doing it in front of the troops at Fort Bliss, Texas.

Israel began celebrations Monday night for its 76th independence day, with the nation still at war, pursuing the destruction of the Hamas terrorists who carried out the brutal attack of October 7 that killed roughly 1,200 people.

Far-left Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) used Independence Day not to celebrate the ideals, risks, and sacrifices that led to the success of the great American experiment but to demand “reparations now.”

A group of Cuban migrants landed what appears to be a homemade boat on a beach in the Florida Keys on Independence Day Agents arrested the migrants and processed them for removal from the United States.

Federal Judge Terry A. Doughty issued a temporary injunction on Independence Day blocking members of the Biden administration from having further contact with social media companies during a censorship trial.

The National Independence Day Parade will be held in Washington, DC, on Tuesday, July 4 at 11:45 AM on Constitution Avenue from 7th to 17th Street.

More than half of Americans (55 percent) rank the Fourth of July as one of the nation’s “most important holidays” while six percent view it as one of the least important, a Rasmussen Reports survey found.

Ahead of the Fourth of July, only 29 percent of likely U.S. voters believe the United States is “heading in the right direction,” a new Rasmussen Reports survey found.

Storms across the country have canceled 89 flights the day before the Fourth of July holiday.

A poll released Thursday shows slightly more than a third (39 percent) of Americans say they are “extremely proud” to be American ahead of Independence Day.

Troy Aikman knocked beer brands capitalizing off the Fourth of July by simply “slapping an American flag on their packages.”

One of the two illegal aliens accused of plotting a mass shooting on the Fourth of July in Richmond, Virginia, has been given a mere $15,000 bail.

Left-wing pop star Katy Perry’s pro-abortion rant on Independence Day backfired as the Joe Biden backer was called out by fans for her support of what they called an “anti-abortion” mayoral candidate in billionaire developer Rick Caruso.

Rhode Island State Sen. Tiara Mack, a Democrat representing District 6, opted to encourage Rhode Islanders to vote for her by posting a video of herself twerking upside down in a bikini, describing it as a “promised senator thirst trap.”

On Independence Day, ESPN proudly highlighted an anti-American screed by leftist columnist Howard Bryant who said the U.S. has lost freedoms.

Tuesday on CNN’s “New Day,” New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) weighed in on women all across the United States refusing to celebrate Independence Day over the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling to overturn Roe v. Wade.

Two police officers were shot and hospitalised on Monday evening during a Fourth of July fireworks show in Philadelphia, sparking a stampede.

Vice President Kamala Harris will visit Chicago on Tuesday some 24-hours after a mass shooting that killed six people and injured at least 30 more. All the victims were lining a Fourth of July parade route in the city’s Highland Park neighborhood.

The president delivered a speech to the American people from the White House, as part of a barbecue with military service members.

Far-left voices are offering less than celebratory Independence Day messages — from warning of “extremist voices” to urging Americans to sponsor Ukrainian refugees.

Actress Jessica Chastain took to social media on the Fourth of July to proclaim, “Happy ‘Independence’ Day from me and my reproductive rights,” and shared a photo of herself holding up two middle fingers.

Figures across the country celebrated the Fourth of July on its 246th Independence Day, reminding fellow Americans that “we live in the greatest nation in the world.”

America celebrates its independence on the Fourth of July, while captive people around the world hope they might one day celebrate their own.

These are the times that try men’s souls—and budgets. This year’s Fourth of July celebrations will be hit hard by inflation.

Welcome to Joe Biden’s 4th of July, the most expensive in history!

A manhunt was underway Friday morning for two Palestinian terrorists who slayed three Israeli civilians with axes and injured seven more in the Israeli city of Elad hours earlier. Israeli security forces have released the names of two suspects.

President Joe Biden joined other world leaders to congratulate Israel on its 74th Independence Day on Thursday, saying the U.S.’ ties with the Jewish state were unbreakable.

KEYSTONE, South Dakota — South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem told Breitbart News exclusively here last week that she believes her state will prevail on appeal against Democrat President Joe Biden’s administration’s decision to bar the state from holding an Independence Day fireworks ceremony at Mount Rushmore.

In a clip that has garnered tens of thousands of views over the last few days, a group of anti-Israel protesters are seen gathering in Brooklyn to mark American Independence Day by chanting anti-American and anti-Israel slogans and setting both American and Israeli flags aflame as the crowd cheers on the shocking display.

Just when you thought it was safe to celebrate Independence Day again …

In Oakland, California, in 2021, criminals marked Independence Day by threatening citizens with deadly violence.

Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) doubled down Sunday after deeming Independence Day a celebration of freedom for “white people” only, claiming black people “still aren’t free,” while calling to end “police violence” and the “health care, housing, and education apartheid.”

Left-wing actress Rosanna Arquette pushed an environmental alarmism message on Independence Day, suggesting people give up fireworks “for the wellbeing of mother earth and humans to survive.”

Matthew McConaughey, who is mulling a run for Texas governor, delivered a typically surreal July 4 message on Sunday, declaring that America is still “going through puberty” while also urging Americans “to keep maturing.”

Many Twitter users were not pleased with NPR’s assessment of one of America’s most important founding documents.

China’s government-run Global Times newspaper observed American Independence Day on Sunday by claiming Americans have nothing to celebrate, as their country has become “selfish,” failed on “the race issue,” and is currently “in its least confident stage.”

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg chose a hovering electric hydrofoil, the U.S. flag and a John Denver “Take Me Home, Country Roads” soundtrack to underline his everyday, all American boy self-regard on July 4. As you do.

Independence Day is about freedom for whites, while blacks “still aren’t free,” wrote Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) on Sunday, July 4.

An essay published in the Nation on Friday accuses Americans celebrating independence of failing to “reckon with the fact that the founders of our nation were colonizers,” with American “exceptionalism” and foreign policy being “grounded in racism,” adding that issues such as climate change and “racist policing” are the “greatest existential threats” while global terrorism and threats from China, Russia, and Iran, are merely “imagined threats.”
