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Fireworks explode above the Mount Rushmore National Monument during an Independence Day event attended by President Donald Trump in Keystone, S.D., on July 3, 2020. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images
President Joe Biden’s administration has rejected an attempt to hold fireworks at Mount Rushmore National Memorial in July to celebrate Independence Day.
Herbert Frost, a regional director for the National Park Service, cited the COVID-19 pandemic in making his decision.
