Dramatic video shows a massive explosion near Beirut's port that caused destruction to homes miles away. Dozens have been killed and thousands are believed to be injured, officials say. https://t.co/wOOvmOdkM4 pic.twitter.com/2QxqtTfuQz

— CNN (@CNN) August 4, 2020

At least 50 people were killed and 2,700 injured, with bodies buried in the rubble, officials said https://t.co/zcGuIseZbd

— TIME (@TIME) August 4, 2020

Reuters latest. https://t.co/DIls7L92hD

— Patricia Zengerle (@ReutersZengerle) August 4, 2020

UPDATE: The Beirut explosion that killed at least 50 and injured thousands on Tuesday, was caused by an estimated 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate left without “preventative measures” in a warehouse, Lebanon PM Diab says.https://t.co/cHQB2zNuVM

— MSNBC (@MSNBC) August 4, 2020

The streets of #Beirut right now.

Total destruction! pic.twitter.com/Gax35oEZkn

— Inside Naija (@Insid3Naija) August 4, 2020

And the NYT is updating a live blog here with reported facts from the ground: https://t.co/tvijppFJwF

— Sheera Frenkel (@sheeraf) August 4, 2020

.@nytimes saying our employees in #Beirut are ok, though some may have sustained injuries. That includes the amazing @VivianHYee, a former #Albany reporter.

— Jesse McKinley (@jessemckinley) August 4, 2020

A family at a hospital is informed of death. This young woman bent over in anguish, spread her arms open to an infant child and said: “Youssef, dad is in heaven."

Lebanon’s heart has been ripped out. https://t.co/kbdqqxXSNR pic.twitter.com/36Go4oupI5

— Timour Azhari (@timourazhari) August 4, 2020

Lebanon facts.

🇱🇧had an economic/banking crisis. Lebanese pound had lost 80% of its value. Debt was 170% of GDP.
🇱🇧had a political crisis
🇱🇧had a refugee crisis (30% of population are Syrian refugees)
🇱🇧had a Covid crisis

All of this was before today even happened.

— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) August 4, 2020

"Attack?"

Who is saying this was an attack? https://t.co/nxIAvRfw1e

— Chris Megerian (@ChrisMegerian) August 4, 2020

Trump refers to the Beirut explosion as "an attack." There were conflicting reports on what caused the blast, but the director of the general security directorate said it was because of "high explosive materials confiscated years ago." https://t.co/ntfmELSGcG

— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) August 4, 2020

Asked if he's confident this was an attack and not an accident, Trump says, "It would seem like it, based on the explosion." He says he met with some "great generals" and they "seem to feel" that it was an attack. He then adds it was a "bomb of some kind." ?

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 4, 2020

If the "generals" really told Trump that, then he just disclosed what would otherwise be highly classified information.

— Spin Doctor (@SpinDr) August 4, 2020

Trump made a point of announcing the loan to Kodak himself.

Now that the SEC is investigating the matter…

"I wasn't involved in the deal."

— Eli Stokols (@EliStokols) August 4, 2020

Before it was announced that Kodak would be receiving a big government contract, the company's trading volume spiked. Did those who purchased Kodak stock have access to any secret information? I'm demanding answers——and I'm glad the SEC will investigate. https://t.co/K8wi4EF9iD

— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) August 4, 2020

Trump is now saying that a private business needs to pay (beyond normal taxes) for his approval to buy another private business.

— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) August 4, 2020

The Trump administration mismanaged ventilator negotiations with a major medical device manufacturer, overpaying by roughly $500 million for tens of thousands of breathing machines earlier this year, House Democrats said in a new report. https://t.co/OhUJgi6cVt

— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) August 4, 2020

Trump, this morning, introducing his Secretary of the Interior: "He loves the Interior."

— Annie Karni (@anniekarni) August 4, 2020

Wonder if on Friday nights “Shabbat Shalom” will give way to “Yo, Semites”? https://t.co/3suPQfuFy5

— Richard N. Haass (@RichardHaass) August 4, 2020

Trump fails to understand that denial is not a river in Egypt.

— Stephen King (@StephenKing) August 4, 2020

"What? No, that's totally how its pronounced. Yo Semites! It's always been that way. It's an old Jewish Native American name. Not many people know that."
— The National Park Service, soon, probably. https://t.co/SZYd5EvJEk

— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) August 4, 2020

Jonathan Swan reveals the magic way to expose Trump’s lies: ask him follow-up questions. https://t.co/K1YcszCQ6p

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 4, 2020

When you totally shit the bed during an actual interview and go crying to someone to give you the love Daddy never did https://t.co/Dmzzy4gQ1e

— 𝙹𝚊𝚢𝚗𝚒𝚎’𝚜 𝙶𝚘𝚝 𝚊 𝙱𝚞𝚗 (@FreeGirlNowNYC) August 4, 2020

The tree is the Trump Adminstration. pic.twitter.com/WaNGkkAoa8

— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) August 4, 2020

Special Report: Local governments 'overwhelmed' in race to trace U.S. COVID contacts https://t.co/CMSVRCRXkf pic.twitter.com/csdN4IoZ2c

— Reuters (@Reuters) August 4, 2020

Perspective: The spread of covid-19 in the South shows the risks of anti-intellectualism https://t.co/tuZl4Kmr3v

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) August 4, 2020

Reporter: Why is mail-in balloting acceptable in Florida but not the rest of the country?

Trump: Florida has a great Republican governor.

Trump is explicitly saying he only trusts election administration by members of his party. The quiet part out loud.

— Miranda Yaver, PhD (@mirandayaver) August 4, 2020

NEW: Trump said Epstein was never a member of Mar-a-Lago. He was. | Miami Herald https://t.co/4VxojMEDCe

— julie k. brown (@jkbjournalist) August 4, 2020

NEW: The pick to be ambassador to Germany has attacked the country for supporting "Muslim invaders" saying Muslims want to turn it into an "Islamic state."

He has called for allowing the shooting of undocumented immigrants trying to cross at the border. https://t.co/r6rqAIYmco

— Andy Kaczynski (@KFILE) August 4, 2020

Neil Young sues Donald Trump campaign for using his music https://t.co/1UJTquHe5S

— Guardian news (@guardiannews) August 4, 2020

High risk workers forced back out. Food parcels withheld if you’ve got “the wrong” disability. Services for disabled children scrapped. Coronavirus has exposed Britain’s shameful treatment of disabled people. >> My col. https://t.co/26tZAF5PsA

— Frances Ryan (@DrFrancesRyan) August 4, 2020

He has to be stopped

Boris Johnson 'planning second peerages list to reward donors in autumn' https://t.co/YA9jeqCMFB

— sue#NHSLove💙💙💙#FBNHS #GeneralElectionNow (@SueSuezep) August 4, 2020

Boris Johnson's decision to make Evgeny Lebedev a Lord has gone down well in #Moscow. Here's a piece from Komsomolskya Pravda. It describes Evgeny's KGB father Alexander as a "former Soviet diplomat" and says Evgeny is "the first Russian" to become a peer https://t.co/gicS5SMa0M

— Luke Harding (@lukeharding1968) August 4, 2020

Companies bailed out with public money have paid shareholders billions of pounds in dividends while cutting tens of thousands of jobs in the UK – VICE #BorisJohnson#RishiSunak https://t.co/rmfEuNb45y

— Bernadette Meaden (@BernaMeaden) August 4, 2020

After telling people to go back to work on Monday, Boris Johnson left Downing Street to spend time in Chequers https://t.co/PhT6Y6NbqF

— The New European – Think Without Borders (@TheNewEuropean) August 4, 2020

Tropical Storm Isaias, tornado warnings batter East Coast https://t.co/mb5dfKiySw pic.twitter.com/oxFWAof2Mj

— The Hill (@thehill) August 4, 2020

#Isaias made landfall along the North Carolina coast as a hurricane on Tuesday, causing flooding and spawning multiple tornadoes that killed at least two people. #NCwx pic.twitter.com/5FZyHzyP2M

— The Weather Network (@weathernetwork) August 4, 2020

At least 4 people were killed and others remained missing after Isaias hammered the East Coast, triggering tornadoes, knocking down trees and leaving more than 2.6 million homes without power.https://t.co/gY89zaDVA3

— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) August 4, 2020

Canada's top doctor is warning an eventual #Covid19 vaccine will be no "silver bullet," and the public should brace for another two to three years of health precautions https://t.co/cp5c5xWm8P

— POLITICO (@politico) August 4, 2020

My students in my Global Health Governance course study the Haj as a case study of how collective action essential to managing disease risks during global population movements. Here is a fascinating visual of how this global event has adapted further during COVID-19 pandemic. https://t.co/35YP5TrFr4

— Kelley Lee (@profplum8) August 3, 2020

Goodness me. https://t.co/wMiqhLnP1K

— Michael Moran (@TheMichaelMoran) August 4, 2020

Ford's stock has fallen nearly 40% since Jim Hackett took the top job in May 2017. The S&P 500 was up almost 40% over the same period. https://t.co/rpeEE1TqdN via @financialtimes

— Claire Bushey (@Claire_Bushey) August 4, 2020

Onlookers pay respects as John Hume's remains arrive at St Eugene’s Cathedral ahead of funeral tomorrow https://t.co/4cRJ4Af5sC pic.twitter.com/L5JIqrXeNq

— Irish Independent (@Independent_ie) August 4, 2020

Such a touching photograph of John Hume’s remains returning to the place he loved in a wicker coffin pic.twitter.com/JX7Kn0mfGm

— Allison Morris (@AllisonMorris1) August 4, 2020

It was an honour to write this for the Guardian, on John Hume, the everyday Derryman whose steely benevolence bent the moral arc of the universe toward justice.

(You'll also learn that he shouted at me when I was a teenager but I probably deserved it).https://t.co/AShJcmflQ4

— The author, Séamas O'Reilly (@shockproofbeats) August 4, 2020

“The solution will be found not on the basis of victory for either, but on the basis of agreement and a partnership between both. The real division of Ireland is not a line drawn on the map, but in the minds and hearts of its people." https://t.co/ZOJn1GTG0c

— Fergal McFerran (@FergalMcFerran) August 4, 2020

Following a request from John Hume's family, President Higgins and Sabina this evening lit a "candle for peace" at Áras an Uachtaráin. pic.twitter.com/3GPZhkfRkp

— President of Ireland (@PresidentIRL) August 4, 2020