Workers build scaffolding around one of the two “The Arts of Peace” statues near the Lincoln Memorial for a restoration project, in Washington on May 29, 2026. President Donald Trump ordered the restoration as part of his Making the District of Columbia Safe and Beautiful initiative. Alex Wong/Getty Images The Trump administration will regild the
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The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation holds a candlelight vigil at 8 p.m. ET on June 4 to commemorate the Tiananmen Square Massacre on June 4, 1989, when the Chinese communist regime crushed a massive pro-democracy movement in China by sending tanks into Tiananmen Square. The Chinese Communist Party has since erased all … Original
The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation holds a candlelight vigil at 8 p.m. ET on June 4 to commemorate the Tiananmen Square Massacre on June 4, 1989, when the Chinese communist regime crushed a massive pro-democracy movement in China by sending tanks into Tiananmen Square. The Chinese Communist Party has since erased all … Original
A man who pleaded guilty to participating in the Jan. 6 riot as a 19-year-old — and later described the events of that day as a “disgrace” — works in a sensitive job in the Defense Department, a defense official confirmed to CBS News. Elias Irizarry serves as a special assistant to Assistant Secretary of
Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon is demanding that a House panel question billionaire Leon Black over the extraordinary sums he paid Jeffrey Epstein for tax advice when he testifies before the House Oversight Committee later this month. In a letter Thursday to the committee’s chairman, GOP Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, and Democratic Ranking
Good news about pertussis, also known as whooping cough: despite fears that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s unconventional views about childhood vaccines would lead to a resurgence of the disease, reported cases have actually declined from a recent high during the Biden-Harris administration. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention counted