the idea of fireworks for the 4th of July. Um, you know, it used to be a lot of cannon fire, a lot of, you know, bombs going off, but that became too too difficult. Then we had a tradition in the United States of building pyramids.Towns, particularly New England, would take old whiskey barrels or flower barrels and pile them up high to see how big a pyramid they could have for for July 4th. Fireworks in Pyroch Nick started improving and were easy to do. And now it's really tied to the hip of the 4th of July ...

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Good morning. Happy 4th of July. I'm Stephen Romo in for Joe and Savannah today.And we begin this morning with that major victory for President Trump and his agenda. The president's massive tax cut and spending bill is now on its way to his desk to be signed into law today. That legislation was narrowly passed on Thursday in time for that self-imposed July 4th deadline.But the bill's passage was far from smooth. Several Republican holdouts had to be persuaded to support it. In the end though, two GOP lawmak ...