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Former Secretary of State Colin Powell arrives for today's dedication ceremony at the Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture on the National Mall in Washington, Saturday, Sept. 24, 2016. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

The Latest: Obamas officially open black history museum

Associated Press

The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is requesting that smartphone users refrain from "catching" Pokemon when they are inside the museum. (Associated Press/File)

Pokemon Go on National Mall welcome, but considered inappropriate at sacred sites

By Emma Patton - The Washington Times

Pope Francis endorses Together 2016 by saying in a video, “Wear this T-shirt in unison, and respond to the great restlessness.” (YouTube.com)

Together 2016 aims to unify 1 million Christians in prayer on National Mall

By Emma Patton - The Washington Times

St. Joseph, Mo., police officer Jennifer Protzman (left) helps fellow officer Larry Smith light his candle during a candlelight vigil for those who were killed in action, at Civic Center Park in St. Joseph, Mo., on May 11, 2016. (Dougal Brownlie/The St. Joseph News-Press via AP) **FILE**

Police Week candlelight vigil on National Mall to honor fallen officers

By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times

World War II vintage aircrafts flyover near the Washington Monument over Washington, Friday, May 8, 2015, marking the 70th anniversary of the end of the war in Europe on May 8, 1945, and commemorate the Allied victory in Europe during World War II. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Vintage planes fly over D.C. for VE Day; one makes emergency landing

By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times

A member of a bomb squad checks a small helicopter after a man landed on the West Lawn of the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, April 15, 2015. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Friend feared Capitol gyrocopter pilot would get shot down

By Tamara Lush - Associated Press

The C-47 'Whiskey 7' starts its takeoff for the "Return to Normandy" project being carried out by the Geneseo National Warplane Museum in Geneseo, N.Y., on Thursday May 15 2014. The Douglas C-47, a World War II transport plane that dropped American paratroopers on Normandy departed from Geneseo, in New York Thursday for a D-Day 70th anniversary commemoration in France. (AP Photo/Democrat & Chronicle, Carlos Ortiz) ** FILE **

WWII planes to fly practice runs over National Mall in D.C.

By Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times

American Express to help restore historic DC site

By Brett Zongker - Associated Press

Fireworks can be seen from the Top of the Town as they explode over the National Mall to celebrate Independence Day, Arlington, Va., Wednesday, July 4, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times) (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

Group aims to redo neglected site on National Mall

By BRETT ZONGKER - Associated Press

Tourists visit the National Mall in Washington, D.C. (Andrew S. Geraci/The Washington Times) ** FILE **

Seeing the sights on D.C.’s National Mall

By Samantha Scorzo and Emma Collins - The Washington Times

This photo taken May 20, 2014 shows a new Ferris wheel overlooking Washington at National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Md. With a massive new Ferris wheel overlooking the nation’s capital, a children’s museum, a village of restaurants and hotels and a major casino resort on the horizon, National Harbor in Maryland has quickly become a travel alternative to the marble monuments and museums of nearby Washington. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

National Harbor aims to be ‘fun’ alternative to DC

By BRETT ZONGKER - Associated Press

Actress Bellamy Young, who plays first lady Mellie Grant in the television show Scandal, tours the National Mall by the reflecting pool with the Washington Monument in the background, in Washington, Friday, May 2, 2014. The 44-year-old actress is visiting Washington for the first time since she started playing Mellie Grant in “Scandal” and will attend the White House correspondents’ dinner this weekend. On Friday, she joined a tour with a nonprofit group working to restore the National Mall. She stepped gingerly in heels around potholes, mud and broken sidewalks in an area called Constitution Gardens. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

TV’s Bellamy Young tours National Mall sites in DC

By BRETT ZONGKER - Associated Press

Sally Jewell joins National Mall fundraising push

By BRETT ZONGKER - Associated Press

AAA says tour buses generate billions for DC

Associated Press

Man stabbed blocks from DC parade route

Associated Press

Anti-abortion demonstrators put their hands to their hearts as they recite the Pledge of Allegiance as they rally at the annual March for Life, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2014, on the National Mall in Washington. Thousands of anti-abortion demonstrators are gathering in Washington for an annual march to protest the Supreme Court's landmark 1973 decision that declared a constitutional right to abortion. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Thousands brave cold for abortion protest in DC

By BRETT ZONGKER - Associated Press

FILE - This Nov. 17, 2013 file photo shows construction continuing on the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington. A budget deal approved by Congress restores funding for some national arts and cultural programs, but others will still see reductions. In a funding bill approved this week, lawmakers decided against providing construction money for the planned Dwight D. Eisenhower memorial in Washington. The deal provides $1 million for salaries and expenses of the federal memorial commission, dismissing its $51 million budget request. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

Congress says no to Eisenhower Memorial funding

By BRETT ZONGKER - Associated Press

** FILE ** Rep. Charlie Rangel, New York Democrat (Associated Press)

Several House Democrats arrested at immigration reform rally

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times