Throngs gather on the Mall to celebrate the Fourth of July, DC-style

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — If you're hoping to do something beyond the BBQ this Fourth of July there are plenty of parades and fireworks shows to choose from across the Southland. The following are parades held across L.A. County: Holmby Hills: The 

Forget your home-grown fireworks: the U.S. Navy will celebrate with missiles and rockets and guns explosives and flames and smoke. Happy Independence Day! [YouTube]

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President Obama will be spending Independence Day doing what many Americans will be doing: enjoying barbecue and watching fireworks. But before hosting military families at a White House Fourth of July celebration, the president will take part in a 

It may come as a surprise, as we pummel hot dogs to the dome on this hallowed day, that other countries also celebrate the Fourth of July—but on different days of the year. Quelle surprise.