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Fireworks explode over the Manhattan skyline during Independence Day celebrations in New York City on July 4, 2022.
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Hee Haw Fireworks in Goodlettsville, Tenn., began as a souvenir shop and restaurant before switching to selling only fireworks in the early 1970s.
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View of the logo of Brazilian FinTech startup Nubank outside its headquarters, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on June 9, 2021.
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The Planet Money team held a special evening of music, costumes, and econ at the Warren Miller Performing Arts Center in Big Sky, Montana.
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March 1944: A cloud of ash hangs over Vesuvius during its worst eruption in more than 70 years. In the foreground is the city of Naples. The nearby towns of Massa and San Sebastiano were destroyed by the flow of lava. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)
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Normally, when you're running an illegal business, you don't advertise it in the phonebook. But nothing about Mike The Mover's story is normal.
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One of these babies is Planet Money correspondent Karen Duffin; the other is her twin, Marie. We have no idea who's who (and neither do their parents).
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This timed exposer shows the trail as the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft lifts off from pad 39A for the Crew-6 mission at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, early on March 2, 2023.
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