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July 4: A day of hope, guns and politics for America

The site of a mass shooting that left six people dead at a Fourth of July Parade in Illinois on July, 5, 2022. PHOTO: NYTIMES
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WASHINGTON - The contrast between hope and fear could not have been starker on the morning of July 4.

Under a hot blue sky at Mount Vernon - once George and Martha Washington's home - on a bluff overlooking a bend in the Potomac, 50 people from 40 countries were sworn in as new citizens of the United States.

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