8 entries in the ledger
A National Park Service report released Friday endorses Trump's proposed 250-foot memorial arch at Memorial Circle even as it finds the structure is likely to disrupt the historical significance of dozens of nearby sites...
National Park Service employees were directed from Washington to move maintenance projects already approved for this year onto a new "low priority" list while work sought by the White House took precedence, according to...
The National Park Service released an assessment on Aug. 3, 2026 finding that Trump's proposed 250-foot Triumphal Arch would adversely affect dozens of historic sites in and around Washington — about 40 by the agency's...
The Justice Department moved on July 31 to dismiss the felony property-destruction charge against David Hearn, a 67-year-old former Olympic canoeist from Bethesda, Maryland, accused of deliberately damaging the Lincoln...
The Office of Management and Budget asked Congress for additional National Park Service funding in part 'to recoup costs associated with support of events celebrating America's Semiquincentennial,' according to a July...
President Trump signed an executive order on July 24, 2026 directing the Interior Department, through the National Park Service, to install signage on public walkways leading to the Smithsonian's National Museum of...
On July 2, 2026, a three-judge panel of the First Circuit Court of Appeals stayed a district-court order that had required the National Park Service to restore, before the July 4 250th-anniversary events, dozens of...
U.S. District Judge Cynthia M. Rufe ordered the federal government on February 16, 2026 to restore exhibits about slavery at the President's House site in Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia, returning...