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Interior Secretary Doug Burgum doubled down on claims that vandals were responsible for damage to Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, rejecting the Justice Department’s assessment that faulty ...

In the 104 years that the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has stood on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., the event it is most closely associated with is the 1963 "I Have a Dream," speech by the ...

WASHINGTON -- The Justice Department moved Friday to dismiss a criminal case charging a former Olympian with deliberately damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, saying evidence prosecutors had ...

A 32-year-old woman and a 75-year-old man were busted for allegedly having loud sex in front of children at an apartment complex pool in Texas — then gave cops a ridiculous explanation for the romp ...

Pools are hard. This is not news to anyone who owns one, but the uninitiated may not know about the inordinate amount of daily labor and chores that lie behind a pool’s clear, sparkling, perfectly ...

A D.C. judge has lambasted Donald Trump’s Justice Department goons over their efforts to blame someone else for the mess his administration has made of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. Judge Todd ...

BROCKTON, MASS. (WHDH) - A man was found dead in a swimming pool in Brockton Monday morning, a spokesperson for Brockton Police said. At approximately 10 a.m., Brockton Police were called to a home on ...

The lining of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool peeled away in at least seven places along seams that were created when the material was applied in large rectangular sections, indicating likely ...

Officials surveyed the newly drained pool, where the floor began peeling soon after a $16 million repair job. President Trump has blamed vandals. By Devlin Barrett and David A. Fahrenthold Reporting ...

A jaw-dropping new video has laid bare the sorry state of President Donald Trump’s troubled Reflecting Pool after it was drained following weeks of embarrassing problems. The Lincoln Memorial ...