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Trump has lashed out at U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro after she dropped vandalism cases and blamed damage at the pool on rushed and flawed work by a contractor. Standing on the basin of the Lincoln ...

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 ...

President Donald Trump criticized longtime ally Jeanine Pirro Saturday after she agreed to drop a case against a former Olympic canoeist who was accused of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting ...

Aug 1 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump posted on Saturday that he disagrees with his own Justice Department's findings that a flawed installation, not vandalism, caused the lining of the newly ...

A former Olympian will not face trial after federal prosecutors acknowledged that the Trump administration’s claims of vandalism were false. By Madaleine Rubin and David A. Fahrenthold Federal ...

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 ...

CRANSTON, R.I. (WJAR) — Cranston's Budlong Aquatic Center officially opened Wednesday morning after years of waiting. Since its closure in 2020, the public pool has been the subject of everchanging ...