Sam Newman discusses the concept of progressive collapse in civil engineering and how it applies to distributed systems.

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WASHINGTON (AP) — A former Olympian charged with deliberately damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is seeking access to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

President Trump said Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C., “folded like an umbrella.” For now, her job appeared to be safe, according to two people familiar with the meeting. By Erica ...

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 ...