WASHINGTON– The U.S. Mint has begun producing a new $1 coin featuring President Donald Trump’s face to help celebrate America’s 250th birthday, the Treasury Department said Wednesday. The final design of the commemorative coin, which will be released in the fall, was approved earlier this year by the United States Commission of Fine Arts, whose
For Roger Lieb and Bonnie Taff, this 4th of July is a double celebration. Their 50th wedding anniversary coincides with the United States’ 250th birthday. The California couple, both 82, married on July 4, 1976, the United States bicentennial. With huge fireworks and parties all over the United States, they say it seemed as if
Trump concluded his remarks by calling the moment “just the dawn of America’s golden age” with its destiny “written by God.” Celebrations in Washington DC were delayed due to a storm that forced an evacuation of the National Mall earlier in the evening. The guests who attended the Salute to America, the Great American State
Mount Vernon, Virginia.- People about to become American citizens sat in folding chairs on George Washington’s lawn at Mount Vernon on Saturday, 250 years after the Declaration of Independence. The sun was beating down and the well-dressed audience was a flutter of paddle tennis fans emblazoned with American flags. Their families clung to the shade
Canadians gathered across the country to celebrate Canada Day, which commemorates the birth of the nation 159 years ago. But behind the festivities, two challenges are testing the country’s unity. In the western province of Alberta, a restive separatist movement has gained momentum, and in a few months, Albertans will vote in a referendum on