On the 250th anniversary of US Independence, demonstrators wearing insignia of the white supremacist group "Patriot Front" staged protests at Eastern Market and around Capitol Hill. Participants, some wearing white masks, sunglasses and khaki caps bearing the group's emblem, marched near the Capitol and Union Station carrying Confederate flags, "Patriot Front" flags and inverted US flags, and chanted slogans including "Life, Liberty, Victory!" and "Take back America!"

Spring Airlines resumed direct Kaohsiung–Ningbo services on the 4th using an Airbus A320, operating one roundtrip weekly on Tuesdays and Saturdays. Flight 9C8685 departs Ningbo Lishe Airport 15:30, arrives Kaohsiung 17:35; 9C8686 departs Kaohsiung 18:35, arrives Ningbo Lishe 20:35. Spring said previous travel between the cities required transfers and typically exceeded five hours; the direct service cuts one-way flight time to about two hours. Several mainland carriers have also been restoring cross-strait direct routes: China Eastern resumed Taichung–Chengdu from the 1st of this month, and Shandong Airlines expects to resume Taichung–Qingdao from the 23rd.

Yushu Technology co‑founder Chen Li said at the Yabuli forum that the smart-robotics industry could see three market-moving breakthroughs in the next 2–5 years: a unified end-to-end robot large model; continued declines in hardware costs plus longer lifespans and scaled manufacturing; and the build-out of low-cost, large-scale compute infrastructure. He defined an embodied-intelligence 'ChatGPT moment' as robots that, in about 80% of unfamiliar scenes, can complete roughly 80% of tasks from voice or text commands. Chen forecasted that by 2030 embodied-intelligence robots will trigger a consumer wave and materially raise productivity and labor skill levels.