Independence Day is a federal holiday. Many services and retailers may operate at limited hours or be closed. Will banks be ...

Fourth of July weekend leads to lots of lost pets, which places extra strain on local animal shelters. Those rescues need the ...

The 178th anniversary commemorating Los Angeles’ first Independence Day flag-raising on July 4, 1847, scheduled for 10-11 a.m ...

On July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress formally adopted the Declaration of Independence, primarily authored by Thomas ...

Stormy weather can play a major spoilsport for Americans traveling for July Fourth festivities, as the United States is ...

At each major crossroad in America’s history — the Revolutionary War, the westward migration, the Civil War, the Great ...

US Independence Day, celebrated every July 4, marks the adoption of the Declaration of Independence in 1776, when America ...

Once the front passes, drier conditions are on the horizon. Bryan Jackson, a meteorologist at the Weather Prediction Center, ...

Showers and storms later in the weekend could come as the first stages of a potential cyclone developing in the Atlantic. The ...

I had thought and prayed that the great experiment that was the United States of America, One Nation Under God, was becoming ...

India and the US are stepping up negotiations ahead of the July 9 deadline, which marks the conclusion of a 90-day suspension ...

People in some areas of the U.S. may want to stock up on their own sparklers, Roman candles and fountains, because the ...