The U.S. Commission of Fine Arts reportedly offered preliminary approval to President Donald Trump's plan for a massive new ...

The familiar phrases from the American Pledge of Allegiance, 'One Nation Under God' and 'Liberty and Justice for All,' would ...

The Commission of Fine Arts approved early designs for the project, which would be twice the height of the Lincoln Memorial ...

President Donald Trump’s design for the Triumphal Arch he wants to build is up for review by a key federal agency and a ...

At first, it was supposed to be under 60 feet. Then it grew to 76 feet. Then it shot up to 164 feet and more. Now the new ...

The plan to construct a towering arch comes after Trump has demolished the East Wing, paved over the Rose Garden, installed a ...

The story of how President Trump quadrupled the size of the original proposal for the arch follows a now-familiar pattern.

The proposed 250-feet-tall, white-and-gilded monument would stand on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., by the Potomac ...

In April 2026, a Snopes reader asked us whether U.S. President Donald Trump planned to rename the Washington Monument the "Trump monument" and plate it in gold. The question appeared to reference a ...

President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he was working to clean up the "filthy" Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on the National Mall, blaming the Biden administration for neglecting the Washington, ...

The federal government spends significantly more on retirees than any other age group in the United States, a sign of the breadth of Social Security and Medicare — and Americans’ determination to keep ...

President Donald Trump said he is working with Interior Secretary Doug Burgum to clean up the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool on the National Mall. “Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum and I are ...