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Green gunk in Washington’s Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has generated a political storm over who’s at fault. While the debate over vandalism and the pool contractor’s competence continues, a ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool appears blue and clear again in ...

The Reflecting Pool is 2,030 feet long, 30 inches deep at its deepest, and President Donald Trump has been mired in it since he embarked on his controversial renovation of the iconic landmark on the ...

Green water, floating liner chunks, and workers dumping jugs of hydrogen peroxide. These are the images that have characterized the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in the weeks since its reopening ...

A wise man once said that you never want to be the main character on X/Twitter on any given day. But there is somehow a worse scenario—being the misidentified main character on X/Twitter on any given ...

The U.S. and Iran make an interim deal, Vice President JD Vance makes an apology, and the New York Knicks get a ticker-tape parade. Test your knowledge of the week in news, and take last week’s quiz ...

Microsoft announced the Azure Functions serverless agents runtime in public preview at Build 2026, turning the event-driven compute service into a platform for building and hosting AI agents. The ...

The bill for renovations to the algae-ridden Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool totals roughly $16 million, according to government contract records. President Donald Trump announced a plan to refurbish ...

President Donald Trump’s more than $14 million Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool renovation was completed just over a week ago, with its more than 300,000 square feet refilled with 6.5 million gallons ...