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President Donald Trump has created a murky mess of unproven claims and provably false claims about the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. The New York Times reported Tuesday that internal government ...

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 ...

When the going gets rough in politics, mishap becomes metaphor. Rarely has that been truer than with President Donald Trump’s botched makeover of the National Mall’s Reflecting Pool, which has indeed ...

Algae blooms, peeling paint, and a host of fixes from hydrogen peroxide to nanobubblers have made it hard to diagnose what’s wrong with the Reflecting Pool—let alone how to clean up the mess. But the ...

Washington — President Trump on Monday said proof will be provided in court of his allegations that vandals "cut" a massive slit in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, which he claims is the reason ...

A reflecting pool at the western end of the National Mall was included in the 1902 McMillan Plan, which guided the creation of D.C.’s monumental core. Designed by Henry Bacon, also the architect of ...

For nearly two weeks, the recently renovated Reflecting Pool on the National Mall has grown algae blooms, and its new blue paint also has begun to peel off. Experts say the algae problem is likely a ...

President Donald Trump on Friday claimed the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was intentionally vandalized and said law enforcement is actively investigating, as the administration has scrambled to ...

The pool has taken on clouds of algae after a hasty renovation. A three-time Olympian was charged with destroying government property after he says he touched one of the strands of blue paint peeling ...

While some people claimed it was sabotage, it was more likely that the paint peeled off because hydrogen peroxide was poured into the pool to treat green algae. As of this writing, officials had not ...