Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fireworks burst above marbled monuments honoring America's forefathers for roughly 40 minutes as sun-drenched and rain-soaked ...

As America approaches its 250th birthday, we're arguing over what America is. Some say it's the greatest country on earth. Others insist it's irredeemably flawed. Before taking either position, ...

At 250 years, America’s (fault) lines are showing. Partisan and regional divisions now rival the most intense internal conflicts apart from the Civil War. The escalating tension between the red and ...

Discussions of American power are prone to hyperbole. In his first inauguration speech, in 2017, Donald Trump lamented “American carnage”. In his second, in 2025, he declared that “America will ...

Americans from sea to shining sea united for a joyous celebration 250 years in the making as the Land of the Free marked a quarter-millennium of independence — and the birth of the once-radical notion ...

America turns 250 on Saturday. But the celebration Americans will see isn’t quite the one organizers spent the last decade planning. For nearly 10 years, the bipartisan, congressionally chartered ...