Americans mark 250th anniversary with tempered enthusiasm about democracy's state
Americans celebrated the country's 250th birthday by tuning out partisan shouting from Washington and social media to focus on their own personal concepts of America. In Associated Press interviews with citizens in the days before the Fourth, auto technician Joe Fuqua-Bejarano in Topeka, Kansas, sized up what makes Americans awesome as
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