In what was billed as a “national day of action,” more than 1,300 “Hands Off!” protests took place in all 50 states as well ...

For the first time since 1934, the Washington Monument, just west of the Smithsonian ... Computers give a virtual view in all four directions of what visitors would be seeing were the scaffolding ...

One bolt from the storm hit the Washington Monument. Two national guard troops were seriously injured by the lightning. The shuttle with four space tourists aboard was also the first to splash ...