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The decision comes after prosecutors filed to drop Olympian David Hearn’s charges on Friday, July 31 Valerie Plesch/Bloomberg via Getty; Kevin Carter/Getty Washington D.C. prosecutors have moved to ...

Federal prosecutors on Friday asked a judge to dismiss an indictment charging former U.S. Olympic canoeist David Hearn with ripping up the bottom of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, citing new ...

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 ...

Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney in Washington, blamed shoddy construction, contradicting President Trump’s pet theory. Mr. Trump said he disagreed “100%” with her. By Glenn Thrush Reporting from ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Saturday sharply criticized U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro's assessment that damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was the result of shoddy ...

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 — DC US Attorney Jeanine Pirro is moving to dismiss charges against former Olympic canoeist David Hearn for allegedly vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, revealing in a Friday ...

The U.S. Justice Department announced it is dropping charges against a former Olympian after the Trump administration admitted the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool damage was caused by a contractor's ...

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 ...

A former Olympian who was charged for allegedly damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is asking a judge to turn over the full grand jury record that led to his indictment, arguing there were ...