The National Park Service has re-opened the Washington Monument after a fourth shutdown in as many months. Last weekend, back-to-back blown circuit breakers cut power to the monument. Its ...

The Washington Monument will be closed for a third day in a row on Wednesday, ... "You’ve got to blow it 555 feet up, so it has a little trouble keeping up on days that are this hot, ...

On this day, Dec. 8, in 1982, anti-nuclear weapons protester Norman Mayer threatened to blow up the Washington Monument with a truckload of dynamite before being shot and killed by United States ...

“You can imagine someone trying to do that today,” the veteran reporter said of the hours-long standoff on Dec. 8, 1982, after nuclear disarmament advocate Norman D. Mayer drove a truck ...

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 Washington Monument isn’t lit up tonight for whatever reason and it’s super creepy," one user wrote on Twitter. "The Washington Monument indeed is dark. Strange.," another wrote.