Today in History Today is Sunday, July 5, the 186th day of 2026. There are 179 days left in the year. Today in History: On July 5, 1996, Dolly the sheep, the first mammal cloned from an adult somatic cell by scientists at the Roslin Institute at the University of Edinburgh, was born.
NEW YORK (AP) – A seaplane made a rough landing in New York City’s East River Sunday, alarming bystanders but resulting in no apparent injuries, according to city authorities.
Parisians embrace swimming in the Seine in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower
AP reporter describes severe weather disrupting DC’s America 250th celebration
BEIJING (AP) – Heavy rains have left five people dead in northern China while a tropical storm toppled trees and submerged cars in the nation’s south, state media reported Sunday.
WASHINGTON (AP) – The 250th anniversary of American independence is colliding with a country gripped by political polarization and a heat wave bearing down on millions of people across multiple states as celebrations get underway across the United States on Saturday.
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) – Hundreds of thousands of mourners began a dayslong funeral Saturday for Iran’s late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, beating their chests in sorrow before the glass case containing his flag-draped coffin in Tehran and calling for revenge against Israel and the United States.
A Ukrainian drone attack struck an oil terminal in St. Petersburg on Saturday, Russian officials said, as Kyiv presses on with bombardment of Russia’s oil infrastructure. Almost daily long-range attacks on Russian oil facilities have created a fuel crisis and heaped political pressure on the Kremlin as its all-out invasion of Ukraine stretches into its fifth year.