LOOK: Winning National Mall Redesign Plans Announced
WASHINGTON -- Before a sell-out 1,200-person crowd seated in a tent on the National Mall on Thursday, three winning plans were announced as part of a ...
WASHINGTON -- Before a sell-out 1,200-person crowd seated in a tent on the National Mall on Thursday, three winning plans were announced as part of a ...
Posted 05.02.2012
What should any teenager do with a free day in the nation's capital? See the sights. For starters, there are the monuments and memorials, the White Ho...
AP | By BEN NUCKOLS | Posted 03.14.2012
WASHINGTON -- The Washington Monument cracked and crumbled when a 5.8-magnitude earthquake shook the nation's capital last year. But did it sink or ti...
AP | By BEN NUCKOLS | Posted 03.14.2012
WASHINGTON -- The Washington Monument cracked and crumbled when a 5.8-magnitude earthquake shook the nation's capital last year. But did it sink or ti...
AP | BRETT ZONGKER | Posted 03.19.2012
WASHINGTON — A billionaire history buff has stepped forward to donate the $7.5 million matching gift that's needed to start repairing cracks nea...
AP | BEN NUCKOLS | Posted 02.21.2012
WASHINGTON -- The earthquake-damaged Washington Monument has extensive cracking and chipped stones near its peak that left it highly vulnerable to rai...
HuffingtonPost.com | Rachel Tepper | Posted 12.07.2011
WASHINGTON -- If you've walked through Union Station's usually majestic Main Hall recently, there's no ignoring the jarring scaffolding that lines the...
Posted 01.11.2012
WASHINGTON -- A possible shooting incident involving a police chase near the White House closed streets in the nation's capital Friday night. Acco...
Posted 12.31.2011
On Aug. 23, 2011 a 5.8 magnitude earthquake rattled the northeast. One of the structures to sustain damage from the quake was the Washington Monument,...
Posted 12.26.2011
People with disabilities, students, celebrities and members from the Kennedy and Shriver families proved this past weekend the fundraising power of "B...
AP | Posted 12.17.2011
WASHINGTON -- The same engineers who captivated tourists by rappelling down the Washington Monument are conducting a similar operation at the National...
AP | BRETT ZONGKER | Posted 12.05.2011
WASHINGTON — Engineers who have been rappelling down the Washington Monument completed their inspection Wednesday of its exterior damage from an...
AP | BEN NUCKOLS | Posted 11.29.2011
WASHINGTON — Emma Cardini never envisioned herself rappelling down the sides of buildings. She's a civil engineer, not a thrill-seeker. But for...
Posted 11.27.2011
Earlier today, Erik Sohn and his team began their "dream assignment" of rappelling down the side of the Washington Monument. Is Sohn the new star of t...
AP | By BEN NUCKOLS | Posted 11.28.2011
WASHINGTON -- Engineers rappelled down the Washington Monument Wednesday in a daredevil exterior inspection of damage from last month's earthquake. T...
AP | BEN NUCKOLS | Posted 11.27.2011
WASHINGTON — Bad weather delayed the daredevil work of engineers who will rappel down the Washington Monument for a visual inspection, but touri...
The Huffington Post | Posted 11.26.2011
WASHINGTON -- After declaring the Washington Monument structurally sound on Monday afternoon, the National Park Service released video footage from in...
The Huffington Post | Posted 11.23.2011
WASHINGTON -- The Washington Monument, damaged by August's 5.8 magnitude earthquake, needs to get ready for winter. After rainwater from Hurricane Ire...
AP | Posted 10.31.2011
WASHINGTON -- The National Park Service says engineers sealed cracks in the Washington Monument from last week's earthquake ahead of Hurricane Irene. ...
The Huffington Post | Paige Lavender | Posted 10.26.2011
Televangelist Pat Robertson suggested Wednesday that cracks in the Washington Monument caused by the August 23 earthquake could be a sign from God, an...
The Huffington Post | Craig Kanalley | Posted 10.25.2011
Shortly after the rare 5.8 earthquake in Virginia rattled Washington D.C. Tuesday, a Park Service spokesman said there was "absolutely no damage" to t...
AP | By BEN NUCKOLS | Posted 10.25.2011
WASHINGTON -- The National Park Service says engineers have discovered several additional cracks in the top portion of the Washington Monument. The c...
AP | Posted 10.24.2011
WASHINGTON -- The National Park Service says engineers have found a crack near the top of the Washington Monument presumably caused by a magnitude-5.8...
nytimes.com | JAMES BARRON | Posted 07.20.2011
Nathan Sawaya did Patience first, just as the other guy did. You know, Edward Clark Potter, the sculptor who did the lions in front of the New York Pu...
Scott Shrake | Posted 05.25.2011
I wanted to see this Tea Party phenomenon up close. And I did. Here are some of my photos of the folks I encountered.
The Huffington Post | Michael Grass | Posted 05.04.2012