Lincoln Memorial

Specialists are using lasers to clean up the black biofilm on the Jefferson Memorial dome.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday promised military tanks along with “Incredible Flyovers & biggest ever Fireworks!” for the Fourth of July in Washington. But the District of Columbia says “Tanks, but no tanks” and complains that Trump is politicizing what traditionally has been a nonpartisan celebration. White House and administration officials have tried to calm those concerns by stressing that...

President Donald Trump says military tanks will be part of Washington’s Fourth of July celebration later this week.

The Trump administration has released long-awaited details on “Salute to America,” months after promising an expanded celebration in Washington, D.C., featuring the president himself.

The Trump administration has released long-awaited details on “Salute to America,” months after promising an expanded celebration in Washington, D.C., featuring the president himself.

A group of protesters has asked to bring a giant balloon that looks like a screaming, diapered baby version of President Donald Trump to the National Mall.

After more than 15 years, the iconic fireworks show on the National Mall is moving away from the Washington Monument.

The national park on the site where George Washington and the struggling Continental Army endured a tough winter during the American Revolution boasts a new feature that’s a couple of hundred million years old — dozens of fossilized dinosaur footprints discovered on rocks used to pave a section of hiking trail.

President Donald Trump has announced a 4th of July ceremony at the Lincoln Memorial, promising “one of the biggest gatherings in the history of Washington, D.C.”

Lawyers for Nicholas Sandmann, the Kentucky teen seen in a viral video surrounded by high school students and face to face with a Native American man, are suing the Washington Post for $250 million, saying the paper was reckless and bullied the student.

Nathan Phillips, the Native American elder seen beating his drum in an encounter with Covington Catholic High School junior Nick Sandmann, says he forgives the student although he believes the teen has been insincere in his public response. “Coached and written up for him. Insincerity. Lack of responsibility. Those are the words I came up with, but then I went...

One of the high school students at the center of the Washington, D.C., march encounter that’s become a cultural flashpoint says he wasn’t being “disrespectful” toward a Native American activist he appeared to stare down. Nick Sandmann, a junior at Covington Catholic High School in Kentucky, discussed the march and its aftermath with Savannah Guthrie in an interview airing Wednesday...

A group of five black men shouting vulgar insults while protesting centuries of oppression. Dozens of white Catholic high school students visiting Washington for a rally to end abortion. And Native Americans marching to end injustice for indigenous peoples across the globe who have seen their lands overrun by outside settlers. The three groups met for just a few minutes...

The student who stared and smiled at an elderly Native American protester drumming in his face outside the Lincoln Memorial as his schoolmates chanted and laughed says he did nothing to provoke the man in the videotaped confrontation and was only trying to calm the situation. The student identified himself in an email statement Sunday evening as junior Nick Sandmann...

A Native American who was seen in online video being taunted outside the Lincoln Memorial said Sunday he felt compelled to get between two groups with his ceremonial drum to defuse a confrontation. Nathan Phillips said in an interview with The Associated Press that he was trying to keep peace between some Kentucky high school students and a black religious...

Southern states that once fought to maintain racial segregation are now banding together to promote civil rights tourism at sites including the building where the Confederacy was born and the motel where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. died. Fourteen states stretching from Kansas to Delaware, including all of the Deep South, are joining to promote the U.S. Civil Rights Trail,...

A fugitive Kentucky lawyer who disappeared six months ago before facing a prison sentence for his central role in a massive Social Security fraud case has been captured in Honduras and will be returned to the U.S., officials said Monday....
Eric Conn was captured by a SWAT team as he came out of a restaurant in the coastal city of La...

Thousands of demonstrators marched through Washington, D.C. on Sunday to ensure people don’t forget the ongoing humanitarian crisis in hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico.

Rob Jones lost both of his legs after an explosion in Afghanistan, but that hasn’t stopped him from running. On Friday, he ran his 30th marathon in 30 days.