This weekend, Americans will gather across the country and watch fireworks splay red, white, blue and plenty of other colours across the sky in typical 4 July tradition. But while the Independence Day ...

Fireworks are equal parts lovely and ugly—lovely because, well, they’re fireworks, and who doesn’t enjoy a good pyrotechnic sky show? The ugly part comes mostly after, in the haze of toxic gases and ...

fireworks over the weekend. Now he wants to go over to his friend’s house on the Fourth of July to shoot them off. Ursula is very nervous about it and told her nearly 16- made huge decisions on his ...

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Fireworks during the recent Juneteenth celebration above Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn differed from the illegal fireworks going off every night in neighborhoods across the city. AP Illegal fireworks ...

Spectators gather at Gantry Plaza State Park in Queens to watch to 2022 Macy's fireworks display on July 4, 2022 in New York City. Credit - Roy Rochlin—Getty Images Fireworks are equal parts lovely ...

They zoom instead of boom. They flash instead of flare. They assemble into shapes so sophisticated — a swimming whale, a spinning globe, a marching robot — that traditional pyrotechnics can seem a ...