National Mall News

The famous camera that fixed the Hubble Space Telescope -- made in Pasadena -- has been retrieved from the orbiting telescope and will go on temporary exhibit next year in Southern California, the Jet Propulsion Lab has announced.

WASHINGTON, DC Nearly twenty thousand people of all ages jammed the National Mall Saturday morning for the 22nd annual Fannie Mae Help the Homeless Walkathon.

Participants in a 5k walk around D.C. are fighting homelessness with their feet.

The National Coalition to Save Our Mall thinks the current National Mall needs help.

The Lincoln Memorial is expanding beyond its marble temple for those who may not get to visit the site on the National Mall.

Equipment that helped save the Hubble Space Telescope from disaster in 1993 was recently returned to Earth and is going on display at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington.

Ohio transportation officials plan to cut down on their air fleet. The Department of Transportation wants to sell four decades-old airplanes and two helicopters, more than half its 11 aircraft.

A runner on the National Mall takes advantage of the unusually warm weather in Washington on November 9, 2009.

George Reighard is shown with other airmen and Miss Lenoir Sharon Berry outside a plane named the City of Lenoir that he landed in Hickory in the 1950s.

Veterans Day is observed on Nov. 11 in the United States to honor veterans of the armed services.

November 11 is Veteran's Day, a day when veterans of the armed forces are honored and remembered for their service and sacrifice.

Paris has the Champs-lyses. In Barcelona, it's Las Ramblas. And in Washington, D.C., it's the National Mall.

A sea of 5,500 orange flags, each one representing 100 jobs already lost in the construction equipment industry.

The New Moon national mall tour kicks off today, November 6 at the Hollywood & Highland complex in Los Angeles.

American and Canadian soldiers gather for a memorial service for Pfc. Devin J. Michel of Stockton, Illinois October 29, 2009 at Forward Operating Base Wilson near Kandahar, Afghanistan.

A congressional bill named for Jefferson County World War I veteran Frank Buckles would rededicate a World War I memorial in Washington, D.C., according to U.S. Sen.

As energy increasingly dominates the economy, a quiet little agency in Washington holds the responsibility for tracking the particles that conduct, fuse, blow, heat, combust and convert the earth, wind and water into the energy that makes our society run.

Thousands of people converged on the National Mall Saturday for a great cause -- fighting autism.

Rep. Carol Shea-Porter, D-N.H., joined fellow lawmakers yesterday in unveiling the House Democratic leadership's version of a health care reform bill that the full chamber could vote on before Veterans Day.

Construction permits are finally being issued for the long-delayed Martin Luther King Jr.