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8+ hour, 6+ min ago  (158+ words) President Donald Trump said Saturday night that he was likely to drain the Lincoln Memorial's Reflecting Pool again, as workers contend with paint peeling off its surface and algae blooming in the wake of his $14 million effort to resurface it,…...

4+ hour, 33+ min ago  (193+ words) The Trump administration has reached the stage of its Reflecting Pool saga where soldiers stand watch over a pond full of algae, and the internet has decided that image needs no embellishment to be devastating. Video circulating Saturday, licensed through…...

4+ hour, 47+ min ago  (74+ words) New Horizons in Regional Diplomacy and Economic Partnership By Asif Showkat Kallol (Dhaka Bureau) The Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Tarique Rahman, is scheduled to undertake his first official foreign visit after assuming office. International analysts view this upcoming six-day bilateral…...

5+ hour, 10+ min ago  (190+ words) An ex-GOP lawmaker has heard enough about phantom left-wing saboteurs at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, and he is pointing at the only suspects who fit the evidence: the people Trump hired to clean it. In a series of posts…...

9+ hour, 18+ min ago  (131+ words) First, the new paint job appeared uneven. Then, an algae bloom turned the water an acid green. Now, large chunks of coating are peeling off the basin, creating islands of "American flag blue" alongside patches of pea green in a…...

9+ hour, 20+ min ago  (129+ words) The U. S. has unleashed more than 1, 000 sanctions on Iran over the last 18 months as part of its wider campaign to squeeze Tehran into submission," the Wall Street Journal reports. Iran's ability to withstand those sanctions so far exposes a hard fact…...

1+ hour, 21+ min ago  (657+ words) Paint seen peeling off in the water at pool site; investigation finds ICE agents disproportionately target people from Latin America " key US politics stories from Saturday 20 June at a glance Donald Trump, without offering evidence, blamed "vandalism" for "real problems…...

9+ hour, 24+ min ago  (167+ words) Keir Starmer is preparing to set out a timetable for his departure from No 10 this week after Andy Burnham's triumphant return to Westminster in the Makerfield byelection," The Observer reports. The prime minister is understood to have reached the conclusion…...

5+ hour, 49+ min ago  (108+ words) Donald Trump returned to his favorite subject Saturday evening, and his account of the great Reflecting Pool conspiracy grew more elaborate with every sentence. In a lengthy Truth Social post, the president announced that "many additional people have been arrested…...

6+ hour, 11+ min ago  (50+ words) Larry Sabato is not questioning whether Donald Trump still owns the Republican Party. He thinks the party should just go ahead and put the president's name on the door. Speaking with Alex Witt on MS NOW Saturday, the University of…...