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There’s certainly no shortage of backyard barbecues on the Fourth of July. But if you prefer to dine out on Independence Day, some restaurants are opening up with special holiday hours.

Five things to know about July Fourth, including the origin of the holiday, why we celebrate it and how fireworks became part of the tradition.

Hurricane Beryl ripped off roofs in Jamaica, jumbled fishing boats in Barbados and damaged or destroyed 95% of homes on a pair of islands in St. Vincent and the Grenadines before rumbling toward the Cayman Islands and taking aim at Mexico’s Caribbean coast with at least seven dead in its wake.

Officials say a flight to Manchester, New Hampshire was diverted to Buffalo, New York, after a man allegedly exposed himself and urinated in the aisle of the airplane.

Delta said it was serving pasta only on about 75 international flights on Wednesday after a ‘spoiled meal’ forced an Amsterdam-bound flight to divert.

A house in Colorado caught fire after a dog jumped on the kitchen’s stove and accidentally turned it on.

Sean “Diddy” Combs’ legal team was notified last week by federal authorities in the Southern District of New York that he is a subject of an ongoing criminal investigation, according to two sources familiar with Combs’ ongoing legal troubles.

Stung by past failures to prepare for hurricanes, the Mexican government on Wednesday began evacuating even sea turtle eggs from beaches ahead of incoming Hurricane Beryl.

A descendent of a Union soldier getting the Medal of Honor from President Joe Biden for conspicuous gallantry during the Civil War says it’s an opportunity for his ancestor to be remembered as “a brave soldier who did what he thought was right.”

Documents show up to about 450,000 barred owls would be shot over three decades after the birds from the eastern U.S. encroached into the West Coast territory of two owls: northern spotted owls and California spotted owls.

An Orange County man was convicted of first-degree murder Wednesday in the stabbing death of a gay former high school classmate in 2018.

A long Fourth of July holiday weekend in the United States is expected to create new travel records.

General Motors will pay nearly $146 million in penalties to the federal government because 5.9 million of its older vehicles do not comply with emissions and fuel economy standards.

The FDA banned the ingredient in early July after the agency ruled it’s no longer considered safe.