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FAQs: What you need to know for the 2020 National Menorah Lighting

By Rick Massimo

The National Menorah Lighting will go on as scheduled, albeit with a few concessions to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Here’s what you need to know.

Guinness says DC’s Fourth of July broke world record for largest fireworks display

By Jessica Kronzer
President Donald Trump said the nation's celebration of its 250th anniversary of independence would include the “LARGEST FIREWORKS SHOW IN HISTORY" in a statement made on social media weeks before the Fourth of July. That's a promise the president kept, according to Guinness World Records, launching a total number of 840,537 fireworks in the wee hours of July 5 after thunderstorms delayed the show.
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