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Visitors to East Potomac Park in Washington, D.C., might have noticed a new landform taking shape over the past several days: a massive pile of dirt abutting one of the three municipal golf courses on ...

Heavy metals and chemicals were detected above background levels, according to initial soil sampling data released by the National Park Service. Dirt that the Trump administration dumped on a ...

Some golfers at one of Washington's most beloved public golf courses are calling it "Mount Trump" — a massive mound of dirt rising from the middle of East Potomac Golf Links, hauled there in dump ...

Last week, trucks began pulling off the White House grounds with loads of dirt excavated from the controversial East Wing renovation — and making the 1¼-mile trek south to an unlikely dumping ground: ...