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National Park Service Reinstates Mount Rushmore Fireworks for July 3 U.S. 250th Commemoration

Attendance will be capped through a U.S.-resident lottery run on Recreation.gov.

Philadelphia Sets 16-Day Semiquincentennial Festival With Expanded Parade and Six Nights of Fireworks

Vance Accuses Mamdani’s Independence Day Post of Lacking Gratitude

Kamala Harris Criticized Over Somber Fourth of July Message and Cropped Photo

Fourth of July Celebrations Blend Record Travel and Naturalizations With Political Divisions

Banks Close and Retailers Stay Open for Friday’s Fourth of July Holiday

Intense Immigration Raids Halt Fourth of July Festivities in Southern California

LL Cool J and Jazmine Sullivan to Headline Free July 4 Concert on Benjamin Franklin Parkway