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Trump is resurfacing D.C.’s reflecting pool in ‘American flag blue’ : NPR

Trump is resurfacing D.C.’s reflecting pool in ‘American flag blue’ : NPR

Published by Sam Flores

Workers paint a corner of the reflecting pool blue on Monday morning. Rachel Treisman/NPR hide caption toggle caption Rachel Treisman/NPR WASHINGTON — On a typical spring morning in D.C., the area around the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool bustles with runners, photographers, tourists and families of ducks. This Monday, however, the 2,030 foot-long pool sat completely empty, save for a smattering of construction vehicles, portable toilets and traffic cones. In one of the corners of the drained pool, workers stood in a cluster, spraying the bottom with what looked like blue paint. “I honestly can’t tell what they’re doing right now,” said Laurie Collins, a lifelong D.C. resident who was taking pictures of the scene to update the nearly 180,000 followers of her Instagram account @dccitygirl. “The way it seems that they’re spraying this paint it’s probably going to take them a year to finish it.” The pool is being resurfaced as part of President Trump’s efforts to reshape iconic parts of the city. He says the project will take one week and cost $2 million. …

Clones of Stumpy, Washington, D.C.’s beloved cherry blossom tree, have flowered for the first time

Clones of Stumpy, Washington, D.C.’s beloved cherry blossom tree, have flowered for the first time

Published by Sam Flores

Stumpy lives again. Clones of the scraggly, beloved cherry blossom tree felled two years ago in the nation’s capital have flowered for the first time this spring, reaching what federal officials described Wednesday as a “pinnacle achievement.” The National Arboretum said in a statement that the plant material used to propagate the Yoshino cherry clones was collected in the summer of 2024. It was one of thousands that line the banks of the Tidal Basin reservoir between the Thomas Jefferson and Franklin Delano Roosevelt memorials. Clones of Stumpy are flowering for the first time this spring. National Arboretum The new trees are healthy and have put on substantial growth since they formed their own root systems, according to the statement. They will remain at a nonpublic research area until the National Park Service can replant them, perhaps as soon as next spring, the arboretum said. “It is our hope that the story and spirit of these trees will inspire future generations of cherry tree enthusiasts around the world — deepening cultural connections for years to …

Who Will Apologize for D.C.’s Tornado Bust?

Who Will Apologize for D.C.’s Tornado Bust?

Published by José Betancourt

Tornadoes did not hit the nation’s capital yesterday, and many meteorologists on the internet are extremely sorry. “What a HORRIBLE forecast by meteorologists—especially myself,” Matthew Cappucci, of the weather app MyRadar, posted on X yesterday after the tornado warnings that prompted schools, businesses, and museums to close across the Washington region had fizzled into your average rainy day. Brady Harris, who calls himself “Weathers #1 HYPE Man,” wrote that meteorologists had “screwed up the Forecast BIG Time today.” He pledged to do better. In wraparound shades and a T-shirt featuring a kitty cat in a lightning storm (his handle is “StormCat5_”), Harris explained to his followers in a video: “I made the prediction. You have to own it. And you have to tell people, you know, publicly, that, ‘Hey, I messed up.’” Surely, the weathermen of the world hold some sincere remorse here for a situation that alarmed the mid-Atlantic, sent parents scurrying to retrieve their kids, grounded hundreds of flights, and disrupted daily life for millions of people. But the abject tenor of some …