Today’s 20-min top headline news brief includes:

[0:55] -America marks 248 years of independence. House Speaker Mike Johnson has words of encouragement. [Newsmax Breaking]

[2:08] -Newsmax host Carl Higbie assesses the state of the republic on Independence Day. [Carl Higbie Frontline]

[6:13] -Hogan Gidley: “If Kamala Harris was competent, Biden would already be gone.” [Wake Up America]

[10:41] -New York Times poll shows Donald Trump extending his lead over Biden to 6 points, from 3 points before the debate. Tom Fitton, President of Judicial Watch: “I’m hearing Biden may resign.” [Carl Higbie Frontline]

[13:37] -Newsmax border correspondent Jaeson Jones: “Mainstream media is not telling the truth about the border.” [Newsmax 2]

[16:03] -Col. Allen West: “Now we have a terrorist trafficking issue and a sex trafficking issue, on top of a drug trafficking issue.” [Newsline]

[17:53] -Revisiting former President Donald Trump’s historic Fourth of July speech from Mt. Rushmore.

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