Be prepared to go through airport-style security screening ... There are 896 steps climbing to the top of the Washington ...

The elevator to the top of the Washington Monument today takes about 70 seconds. It’s the same as going up to the top floor of a 50-story building. This is also the fifth elevator this structure ...

The Women’s Suffrage National Monument, which will be the Mall’s first dedicated to women’s history, overcame congressional ...

the Washington Monument was the tallest structure in the world at its completion in 1884. Nowadays, you can ride one of the monument's glass-encased elevators to the top observation deck to enjoy ...

My esteemed current colleague and boss Rich Lowry tweeted over the weekend, “If these monuments are going to become ... the point where, if the Washington Monument were to be blown up tomorrow ...

An enormous asteroid potentially larger than the Washington Monument is due to zip past our planet today. For comparison, the Washington Monument is about 555 feet tall, the Golden Gate Bridge is ...

A view of the U.S. Capitol from the top of the Washington Monument at dawn on the Inauguration Day of Donald Trump’s second presidential term in Washington, D.C. Brendan McDermid/Pool/Reuters ...

Dignitaries from across Washington and around the world crammed into the U.S. Capitol Rotunda on Monday to watch power transfer peacefully from Democratic former President Joe Biden to his Republican ...

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Donald Trump supporters on social media speculated over whether a divine message was being sent after lightning strikes reportedly hit the U.S. Capitol Building and Washington Monument in ...

With the Washington Monument in the background ... praised the crowd's gathering "in the face of what’s going to be some really horrible extremism". With Trump's Republicans also controlling ...