Topic - 4th Of July

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Police officers stand guard at the crime scene where police say two people were killed and three others injured in Huntington Beach, Calif., Friday, July 5, 2024. Two people were killed and three others injured in Independence Day violence in the beach city, police said Friday. (AP Photo/Eugene Garcia)

2 killed and 3 injured in July Fourth attack near Calif. beach community known as ‘Surf City USA’

By Eugene Garcia, Stefanie Dazio and Jaimie Ding - Associated Press

The temporary memorial for the Highland Park shooting victims, Katie Goldstein, Irina McCarthy, Kevin Michael McCarthy, Stephen Straus, Jacki Lovi Sundheim, Nicolás Toledo and Eduardo Uvaldo, is seen near 1707 St. Johns Avenue in Highland Park, Ill., Thursday, July 4, 2024, two years after a mass shooting at the parade. (Pat Nabong/Chicago Sun-Times via AP)

July Fourth violence nationwide kills at least 33, Chicago ‘in state of grief,’ mayor says

By John Raby - Associated Press

Sophia Mendez delivers a poem during a Remembrance Ceremony for the victims of the 2022 Highland Park shooting, Thursday, July 4, 2024 at Edgewood Middle School in Highland Park, Ill. (Pat Nabong/Chicago Sun-Times via AP)

2 women police officers killed in July Fourth shootings

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Vehicles move slowly in south-bound lanes, left, of Interstate Route 93, in Boston, Wednesday, July 3, 2024, as people make their way out of the city. Boston roadways saw traffic delays Wednesday in many areas the day before the July Fourth Independence Day holiday. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Parades, cookouts — and lots of fireworks: How Americans celebrate Fourth of July

By David Sharp - Associated Press

Dan "Killer" Kennedy and Molly Schuyler share the first place trophy after both ate 34 hamburgers in 10 minutes at the 15th annual Z-Burger eating contest at the fast food restaurant's Tenleytown location in Northwest Washington on Wednesday, July 3, 2024. (Photo by Lizzy Donker / The Washington Times)

Land of the free and the home of the full: Z-Burger’s annual eating contest ends in a tie

By Lizzy Donker - The Washington Times

FILE - People watch distant fireworks from a park on July 4, 2022, in Kansas City, Mo. Warehouse membership club Costco said it would be closed on July 4th, 2024, but the vast majority of major national retailers will be open, with some offering promotional sales to lure customers. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

Open on July 4th: Retailers and airlines. Closed: Government, banks, stock market

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Independence Day, the Founders, and their dependence on God

By Jim Daly and Focus on the Family – Higher Ground Partner

A mannequin stands burned beyond repair after a sparkler placed near it set its shirt on fire during a fireworks safety demonstration by the Maryland State Police and the Office of the Maryland State Fire Marshal at the Howard County Public Safety Training Center in Marriottsville on Wednesday, June 26, 2024. (Photo by Lizzy Donker / The Washington Times)

‘Leave it to the professionals’: Maryland authorities advise safety in July 4th fireworks displays

By Lizzy Donker - The Washington Times

This booking photo provided by Philadelphia Police Department shows Kimbrady Carriker. Carriker was arraigned Wednesday, July 5, 2023 on five counts of murder as well as charges of attempted murder, aggravated assault and weapons counts of possession without a license and carrying firearms in public, prosecutors said. (Philadelphia Police Department via AP)

DA: Accused Philadelphia shooter may have begun spree two days earlier than police though

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Police on the scene of a shooting Monday, July 3, 2023 in Philadelphia. Police say a gunman in a bulletproof vest has opened fire on the streets of Philadelphia, killing several people and wounding two boys before he surrendered to responding officers. (Steven M. Falk/The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP)

Five dead in Philadelphia shooting that’s nation’s worst violence around July 4

By Tassanee Vejpongsa and Ron Todt - Associated Press

Gov. Wes Moore speaks to the media during a visit to the Brooklyn Homes Community Center in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Baltimore, to meet residents following a mass shooting several days earlier that killed two people and injured multiple others. Moore was joined by, from left, Sen. Ben Cardin, Comptroller Brooke Lierman, first lady Dawn Moore, Del. Luke Clippinger, Senate President Bill Ferguson, Mayor Brandon Scott and other officials. (Amy Davis/The Baltimore Sun via AP)

Mass shootings claim lives at gatherings over the July Fourth holiday

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Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., speaks during an interview Friday, Nov. 12, 2021, in Northwoods, Mo. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

‘Squad’ Democrats Cori Bush, Jamaal Bowman blast America on Fourth of July

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

People watch the Macy's Fourth of July fireworks in New York, Tuesday, July 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

Revelers across U.S. brave heat, rain to celebrate Fourth of July

By Steve LeBlanc - Associated Press

Rori Chang, of Glendale, Ariz., waits in line with her dog Ava to get microchipped at the Maricopa Country Animal Care & Control facility Friday, June 30, 2023, in Phoenix. Most of the U.S. may be looking forward to July Fourth celebrations for dazzling displays of fireworks or setting off firecrackers and poppers with their neighbors. Those with furry, four-legged family members — maybe not so much. They're searching for solutions to the Fourth of July anxiety that fireworks bring. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

ThunderShirts, dance parties and anxiety meds can help ease dogs’ July Fourth dread

By Terry Tang - Associated Press

Fireworks explode during the "Freedom Blast" Fourth of July Festivities in Rice-Eccles Stadium in Salt Lake City, Utah. Extremely hot, dry conditions forecast through the Fourth of July across much of the West are heightening concerns about wildfires and the dangers of fireworks. (Tyler Sipe/The Deseret News via AP) **FILE**

Cities replace fireworks with drone shows at Fourth of July celebrations

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times