‘Biggest and best’ fireworks show promised in NYC as Independence Day celebrated around US

NEW YORK — Fireworks lit the night sky above New York with a kaleidoscope of colors shooting 1,000 feet into the air on an Independence Day that began with the Statue of Liberty’s crown opening to the public for the first time since Sept. 11, 2001.

INSIDE WASHINGTON: With many items missing, is National Archives good record-keeping steward?

WASHINGTON — National Archives visitors know they’ll find the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights in the main building’s magnificent rotunda in Washington. But they won’t find the patent file for the Wright Brothers’ Flying Machine or the maps for the first atomic bomb missions anywhere in the Archives inventory.

British National Archives finds rare copy of the Declaration of Independence hidden in a file

LONDON — British researchers have announced the discovery of a rare original copy of America’s Declaration of Independence — just in time for the Fourth of July.

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