Every year, it seems like sneaker companies come through with shoes that celebrate the 4th of July. This year, it doesn’t feel like there is much to celebrate, but regardless, many are excited for the holiday and all of the festivities it brings. Now, Adidas is showing off their annual 4th of July shoe and it’s coming in the form of an Adidas UltraBoost.

As you can see from the images below, the shoe has a white primeknit base while the midsole is covered in black Boost. From there, we have red and blue stripes on the side which is an obvious reference to the American flag. Going deeper into the shoe, the insole is blue and red with white stars sprinkled throughout. Gold Adidas branding is placed on the tongue to add some finishing touches. 

These shoes are already available on Finish Line for $180 USD and they will be dropping on the official Adidas website in the not so distant future. If you are in need of a pair of kicks for the 4th of July weekend, then these are most certainly the ones for you. Let us know in the comments below whether or not you plan on copping.

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Bacardi Rum is a staple in the party environment but the rum company is doing its part to combat Coronavirus as people practice social distancing. Miami Herald reports that Bacardi Rum’s plant in Puerto Rico has turned its production line into an ethanol producer to make hand sanitizer. At this point, they’re committed to using Bacardi alcohol in order to produce 1.7M 10 oz. bottles to provide to essential workers out there such as police, nurses, and others who are working the frontline of the Coronavirus battle.

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The company was founded in 1936. The vice president of manufacturing in Latin America and the Caribbean, Jose Class, said this is possibly the first time Bacardi has changed their line of production since its Puerto Rican branch launch. Class revealed that they probably didn’t even have anything like this during WWII. This new line of production began on March 17th and they’ve reassured fans of their alcoholic products that this won’t affect the production of rum. 

“We have ways to fight this. Just the simple act of washing your hands and being careful about your social interactions helps,” he said. ”We need to overcome this as soon as possible so we can start celebrating again.”

Bacardi Bottling Corporation in Jacksonville, FL has also committed to using itsim resources to mass-producing bottles of hand sanitizer. This week, they’ll produce 120K units of hand sanitizer.

North Korea says Kim Jong Un received a personal letter from President Donald Trump regarding the Coronavirus outbreak, according to CNN. Trump, apparently, offered his help with the country’s “anti-epidemic work.”

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According to a statement from Kim Yo Jong, Kim’s younger sister, Trump “explained his plan to propel the relations between the two countries of the DPRK and the U.S. and expressed his intent to render cooperation in the anti-epidemic work, saying that he was impressed by the efforts made by the Chairman to defend his people from the serious threat of the epidemic.”

“We regard it as a good judgment and proper action for the U.S. president to make efforts to keep the good relations he had with our Chairman by sending a personal letter again at a time as now when big difficulties and challenges lie in the way of developing the bilateral relations, and think that this should be highly estimated,” she said.

The White House and the National Security Council have not yet responded to CNN’s request for comment. Trump has also not acknowledged the news on Twitter.

Over 300,000 people have contracted the Coronavirus worldwide and over 12,000 have died. At least 323 people have died from the virus in the United States. 

President Donald Trump spoke about the coronavirus, yesterday in South Carolina, and downplayed its seriousness, calling it Democrats’ “new hoax.”

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“The Democrats are politicizing the coronavirus. They’re politicizing it,” he said, according to NBC News. “They don’t have any clue. They can’t even count their votes in Iowa. No, they can’t. They can’t count their votes. One of my people came up to me and said, ‘Mr. President, they tried to beat you on Russia, Russia, Russia.’ That did not work out too well. They could not do it. They tried the impeachment hoax.”

Trump then called coronavirus fears their “new hoax.”

He went on to relate the virus to the border: “You see it. You see it with the coronavirus. You see that. When you have this virus or any other virus or any other problem coming in, it’s not the only thing that comes in through the border and we are setting records now at the border.”

“So far we have lost nobody to coronavirus,” Trump said. “Democrats will always say horrible things. Democrats want us to fail so badly.”

His comments come in response to Dems’ claims that his administration has not done enough to prepare for the epidemic. 

According to Worldometers.info, there have been 85,729 cases of the coronavirus worldwide and 2,933 total deaths. In the US, there are 59 active cases and no deaths so far.