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NYT Mini Crossword Hints and Answers - July 4, 2026

New Delhi, July 4 -- All 13 answers to today's NYT Mini Crossword (Saturday, July 4, 2026) are listed below. The three entries most likely to cause trouble on this Saturday grid are ARIZONA (4-Across)... Read More


How to Get Around Lagos as a First-Time Visitor

New Delhi, July 4 -- Lagos is one of the largest cities in Africa, spread across the mainland and several islands connected by a small number of major bridges. Its transport system mixes buses and rid... Read More


Britain and France Send Mine-Clearing Ships to Hormuz as UK and France Back Oman on Maritime Safety

LONDON, July 4 -- France has dispatched two minehunters and two frigates to the Middle East, with a maritime patrol aircraft flying cover overhead. Britain has co-signed a joint statement with Oman pl... Read More


Thirty-Two Years After Liberation, Rwanda's Youth Are Asking When the Promise Comes for Them

KIGALI, July 4 -- Claudette Kamikazi runs a souvenir shop in the capital. Her father has been in prison for most of her life, convicted of genocide crimes. She was born three years after the killing s... Read More


Twenty Thousand Germans Blocked Erfurt's Roads to Stop the AfD. The Party Held Its Conference Anyway.

ERFURT, July 4 -- From the motorway bridges outside the city, demonstrators hung from harnesses and abseiled to block the access roads. Behind them, more than 200 buses arrived from across Germany, ca... Read More


Xi Jinping Promotes Two Generals to Fill PLA Vacancies Left by Corruption Purge

BEIJING, July 4 -- On the day the United States marked its 250th birthday, Xi Jinping presided over a ceremony in Beijing that carried its own reckoning. China's supreme military commander presented p... Read More


America's Power Grid Hit Emergency Status on July 4 as 160 Million Sweltered

WASHINGTON, July 4 -- On the 250th birthday of the United States, Philadelphia cancelled its Independence Day parade. Boston delayed entry to its riverside fireworks celebration by four hours. And the... Read More


Trump Calls Communism a Greater Threat Than 9/11 in July 4 Speech at Mount Rushmore

MOUNT RUSHMORE, July 4 -- Rain and hail swept across Keystone, South Dakota on Thursday evening, briefly interrupting the proceedings meant to mark the 250th anniversary of the United States. The weat... Read More


In Lampedusa, an American Pope Prays for the Drowned and Challenges Europe to Act

LAMPEDUSA, July 4 -- The waves keep coming. They always have. It is at the tip of Lampedusa, where the land drops to jagged rocks and gives way to nothing but the Mediterranean, that Pope Leo XIV chos... Read More


Kyiv's Deadliest Night in Months: 30 Dead as Missiles and Jet Drones Overwhelm Defenses

New Delhi, July 4 -- By the time the largest explosions rolled across the capital around two in the morning on Thursday, some 52,500 people were already underground, spread across the city's metro pla... Read More