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There did, in fact, appear to be some progress to come out of the summit.

NATO pledged $80 billion in military aid to Ukraine this year and next, though that represented a mix of both previous and new commitments. And Mr. Trump told President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine that the United States would allow the country to manufacture Patriot air defense systems to protect itself from Russian missiles.

Despite saying last month that he would bring a gift that would make Mr. Erdogan “very happy,” the president said he still had a decision to make about whether to allow Turkey to purchase F-35 fighter jets. He said he had an “inclination” to do so because Turkey did not help Iran during the war with the United States and Israel, and because of what he has described as his deep friendship with its leader, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Hundreds of journalists from around the world pushed, elbowed, and yelled at one another to make it into a soaring auditorium here in Ankara for the chance to ask a question of a freewheeling American president who might say anything.

“That’s a lot of press, wow,” Mr. Trump said, sounding amused, as he took to the lectern. His secretaries of state, defense and treasury stood stone-faced behind him as he pin-balled his way through all sorts of topics over the next 40 minutes.

The war with Iran flared up again while Mr. Trump was in Ankara, just 1,000 miles from Tehran, and the fighting dominated the news conference.

The president said that the cease-fire with Iran was likely over after the United States carried out airstrikes on Tuesday against several Iranian targets. The Pentagon said they were in response to Iranian attacks on commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz. On Wednesday, Iran’s armed forces said they had attacked U.S. military sites in Bahrain and Kuwait.

Early in the day at the summit, Mr. Trump unleashed verbally on Iran, referring to the country as “scum” and its leaders as “sick people.”

He was particularly incensed by what he characterized as the Iranians’ dishonest, tricksy negotiating style. “There’s something wrong with them,” he fumed. “We said, ‘Go and do your funeral stuff,’ and instead of that, they start shooting rockets at ships.”

By “funeral stuff,” he meant the nationwide funeral procession attended by millions of people for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader killed in the war Mr. Trump launched alongside Israel in February.

“They’re cuckoo,” Mr. Trump said, tapping an index finger against his cranium.

The NATO secretary general, Mark Rutte, sat impassively by his side, legs crossed, and hands clasped over one knee.

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President Trump at the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, on Wednesday. Credit…Doug Mills/The New York Times

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China’s Tianwen-2 aims to collect samples from asteroid Kamo’oalewa and return them to Earth

A Chinese spacecraft on a mission to collect and return samples of a near-Earth asteroid beamed back its first image of its target.

Called Kamo‘oalewa, the space rock loops by Earth, coming as close as 9 million miles and as far as 25 million miles from our planet. It’s a quasi-satellite, meaning it orbits the sun, but it sticks close to Earth—astronomers have discovered eight of these space rocks that seem to follow our planet’s path.

Some space scientists affectionately refer to these objects as Earth’s “mini moons,” or “quasi moons,” although research suggests Kamo‘oalewa may in fact be a stray piece of our moon that was thrown into space by an ancient impact. Other evidence, including James Webb Space Telescope observations, dispute that theory, however.

China’s Tianwen-2 has spent the last 400 days traveling to Kamo’oalewa, a journey that spanned around 621 million miles. The rock is about 66 feet in diameter—a little larger than a school bus—and it rotates on its axis every 28 minutes. It was discovered in 2016, and Tianwen-2 launched to retrieve samples from it on May 28, 2025. The spacecraft is scheduled to return the samples to Earth in 2027, dropping them into Earth’s atmosphere during a flyby of our planet.

Tianwen-2’s equipment will allow it to recover samples in three ways, depending on the situation. One way uses a touch-and-go method similar to that used by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sampling mission and Japan’s Hayabusa2 asteroid mission. Tianwen-2 may also attempt an anchor-and-attach method, which involves the spacecraft physically attaching itself to the space rock and then collecting samples of the surface and subsurface. It could also use a hovering method, whereby a robotic arm will deploy from the spacecraft as it hovers above the asteroid and scoop up some of the surface material.

The China National Space Administration said in a statement that Tianwen-2 had reached a distance of 12 miles from the asteroid in late June.

“The probe will progressively conduct more detailed scientific exploration to acquire data on the asteroid’s morphology, material composition and internal structure, laying the groundwork for subsequent sample collection operations,” CNSA said.

After Tianwen-2 drops off the samples in Earth’s atmosphere, it is set to continue its journey to comet 311P/PanSTARRS, where it will conduct further observations and scientific studies.

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Why Is Anger Management Tough To Teach?

I have noticed in my work with families, and in real life knowing anyone parenting children, that anger can be our toughest emotion to navigate. Our childhood experiences with adults expressing anger can play out with our own children. Seeing our child’s anger may be an emotional trigger for those whose caregivers blew up easily, or unfamiliar territory for those whose caregivers withdrew and went silent when angry, communicating that expressing anger is not permitted.

Because anger makes us uncomfortable for a range of reasons, we often convey to our children to express emotions, except anger. If we get more comfortable with anger as a natural human emotion, we help our children embrace their own, eventually without hurting anyone—or growling.

Anger and the Young Brain

The young child has the brain parts to feel strong emotions suddenly, but not yet the brain development to harness these emotions. In working with children in my therapy office, I start with the basics of emotions with almost every child regardless of age, like noticing how they feel in their bodies, labeling the feelings, and then articulating emotions to eventually replace exploding behaviors.

In my years of therapy practice and motherhood, I can attest that young children most often do not have the ability to calmly state how they are feeling when angry. It’s too complex for their brains. Doing so entails:

• Noticing
• Stopping a strong impulse
• Having insight
• Being able to put words to a highly emotional experience

(Side note: How many adults do you know who struggle with this?)

How To Manage Expectations

There’s a very important concept from child development critical for your dilemma: scaffolding. This refers to helping our children build important skills in a way that matches the skills they already have, and their readiness to level up.

You have done this by helping your daughter replace destructive acts of anger with facial expressions and vocalizations that express her anger safely. It sounds like you see the next level as replacing this type of expression with behavior that feels more socially appropriate.

Because it is probably a high bar for a 3-year-old to express anger calmly with words, I recommend focusing on two goals as the next developmental steps:

• Physically regulating strong emotion: This coping skill will help dial down the intensity of anger, giving her emotional regulation tools to last a lifetime.
• Becoming comfortable with her anger: Adults and other caregivers will be her greatest emotional teachers in this regard. Work on modeling this good behavior.

Co-Regulation is Key

This may sound a bit fancy, but self-regulation is actually one of our most powerful strategies for emotional health: learning to calm our bodies when in distress. Regulating with your daughter, called co-regulation, helps her feel how her nervous system shifts from high alert to calm. High alert, which happens when we feel intense emotions like fear and anger, can include a racing heart, heated up body temperature, tense muscles, and rapid breathing.

When my son gets heated, sometimes I take his hand in mine, put it on his chest, and simply say, “feel your heart right now.” When toddlers get mad, they need us to regulate with them, which means we need to be regulated (calm). When we stay calm and offer physical comfort like hugging, sitting them on our laps, or holding hands, our calmer nervous systems help their little bodies better regulate those big emotions.

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Here’s what you need to know:

• Oil prices rise sharply, breaking relative period of calm.
• A tentative recovery in shipping appears at risk.
• Stock markets turn lower.

Oil prices rise sharply, breaking relative period of calm.

• Brent crude oil, the international benchmark, rose more than 5 percent, to above $78 a barrel, its highest level in over two weeks. Although down significantly from its peak during the worst of the fighting, the recent jump pushed oil back above its prewar price of around $72 a barrel, where it had hovered for several days.

• West Texas Intermediate crude, the U.S. benchmark, also jumped, to more than $74 a barrel. This grade of crude traded at $67 per barrel before the war.

• Gasoline prices don’t move in lock step with crude. The U.S. national average price of gas was $3.80 a gallon on Wednesday, according to the AAA motor club. That price at the pump remains more than 27 percent higher than it was at the eve of the war in late February, amid signs that gas stations are maintaining wider profit margins amid the volatility.

A tentative recovery in shipping appears at risk.

• The attacks this week on three commercial vessels, including a Saudi oil tanker and a Qatari liquefied natural gas carrier in the waters off the coast of Oman, threatened to throttle the flow of energy through the Strait of Hormuz, which had recovered somewhat as shipowners gained more confidence in sending vessels through the contested waterway. Tehran has not claimed responsibility for the attacks.

• On Monday, 36 ships passed through the strait in both directions, according to Kpler, a maritime data company. Before the war, more than 100 ships a day routinely passed through the choke point between Iran and Oman.

• Only three of the ships that transited on Monday took the Omani route, through which the U.S. Navy is providing guidance. Iran insists that vessels pass close to its coast, which some analysts see as a precursor to Tehran charging ships for passage. The middle of the strait is considered dangerous because of the risk of mines laid by Iran’s military.

Stock markets turn lower.

• Stock market investors have generally seemed more focused on the prospects for technology companies and the build-out of artificial intelligence systems than the effects of the war in Iran. But the latest burst of fighting in the gulf appeared to rattle investors.

• Futures for the S&P 500 fell by 1 percent, suggesting that stocks will slip when markets open in New York. The war-related anxiety comes as shares of major tech companies were recently been hit by fears that enormous investments in A.I. systems may not pay off as handsomely as expected, with semiconductor companies coming under pressure in recent trading sessions.

• Stocks in Europe and Asia also fell on Wednesday, with declines accelerating as the fighting in the gulf escalated.

• Still, many market strategists remain bullish. “The A.I. theme is intact, and strong earnings are on the way,” Louis Navellier, a longtime money manager, wrote in a research note. “The Iran situation still casts a shadow, with the chance for sudden high escalation still not out of the question,” he added, but an eventual resolution would be “a strong catalyst for a meaningful relief rally.”

More on the Fighting in the Middle East

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• Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s Delayed Funeral: Khamenei’s remains were preserved for months, according to Iran’s government. Some Islamic scholars say it was a political and security calculation. Critics of his brutal rule have been angered by the scale of the commemorations being held to honor his life.

• Possible Plot Against Iran’s Negotiators: U.S. officials believed that Israel might have been plotting to kill Iran’s top negotiators while Washington was engaged with Tehran in delicate talks this spring to reach an interim peace deal, according to current and former American officials.

• Clash Between Trump and the Saudi Crown Prince: Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman pressed President Trump earlier to cripple Iran. But as Iran asserted its power, the prince urged a cease-fire, and is now pursuing his security priorities.

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It seems that NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is an overachiever.

When NASA launched TESS in 2018, the satellite had one job: watch nearby stars for the tiny dips in brightness caused by planets passing in front of them. It has done that spectacularly well, discovering hundreds of new worlds. Now scientists have realized TESS was also collecting evidence for something it was never expected to find.

In a study published July 1 in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, researchers report that TESS captured the signal of Gaia23bra b, a planet orbiting a star nearly 40,000 light-years away—more than 250 times the distance of the nearby stars TESS was designed to study.

It’s a bit like pointing a backyard bird camera at your feeder and later realizing you also captured wildlife on another continent.

Even more surprising, TESS found the planet using a technique it wasn’t designed to use.

The discovery began in April 2023, when the European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft spotted a brief brightening of a distant star. That flash was caused by gravitational microlensing, a phenomenon predicted by Albert Einstein.

When two stars align almost perfectly from Earth’s perspective, the gravity of the nearer one bends and magnifies the light from the more distant star, acting like a cosmic magnifying glass. If that foreground star hosts a planet, the planet leaves ripples in the magnified light.

Gaia recorded the stellar brightening, but it didn’t collect enough observations to reveal the planet itself. Fortunately, less than a month later, TESS happened to be staring at the same patch of sky.

“Gaia’s observations were too sparse to pick up on the planet,” Mallory Harris, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of New Mexico and lead author of the study, said in a statement. “The TESS spacecraft happened to be monitoring the same area of the sky during the microlensing event, and its denser time coverage showed extra features in the light curve caused by a planet.”

But nobody noticed.

Why would they?

“When TESS launched, no one expected it to ever be capable of finding this kind of planet,” study co-author Diana Dragomir, an assistant professor at the University of New Mexico, said in the same statement.

The microlensing lineup between the two stars came and went in 2023, and the telltale planetary signal sat unnoticed in TESS’s archive for nearly three years before researchers connected the dots.

“The discovery implies that there are probably other so-called microlensing planets hiding in TESS’s data that we hadn’t previously thought to look for,” Dragomir said.

The find suggests one of NASA’s most successful planet hunters may still have plenty of surprises hiding in its archives.

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Because though there were fleeting moments of hope, this US performance paled in comparison to those that set the world on notice earlier in this competition. No US team has looked better at a World Cup. No US team before scored goals like the ones they did – goals of quality and ingenuity. No US team before defended quite this capably, over such long periods of time.

Yet it ended with missed defensive assignments, poor giveaways and a moment of pure panic from the goalkeeper Matt Freese that sealed the US’s fate.

“From the beginning, we didn’t connect with the game. Even when we scored the goal, we conceded the next action. Congratulations, Belgium, they were better than us,” Mauricio Pochettino, the US coach, said after the game. “We didn’t show what this team can show.”

Given the events of the previous 36 hours, the US lineup came as no surprise. There was Balogun, starting up top in the same XI that so impressed against Paraguay and Bosnia and Herzegovina. His presence was always expected after his controversial, Trump-driven reinstatement.

On this evening, though, it was the Belgium manager, Rudi Garcia, who provided the first surprise. Two of the team’s stars, Kevin De Bruyne and Jérémy Doku, were omitted from the starting XI even though they were both healthy. Nicolas Raskin came in as the Red Devils’ central playmaker and Dodi Lukébakio replaced Doku on the wing. Lukébakio had terrorized the US in a friendly between the sides in March, scoring two goals in a 5-2 win that raised serious questions about the US’s ability to deal with the world’s best teams.

Consider those questions answered.

The US can’t claim there weren’t warning signs. In the eighth minute, Amadou Onana shrugged off several challenges and slipped the ball through to Lukébakio. The winger knifed through the US defense, sending a nice ball across the face of goal that Youri Tielemans scuffed. The danger had passed, but not for long.

Soon after, Belgium connected. This time, it was a long ball up from the back behind Alex Freeman that Leandro Trossard controlled with a single touch. His deflected pass was met by Raskin with a brilliant first touch of his own. He bounced the ball into the ground and past a flock of US defenders, giving Charles De Ketelaere a simple finish. The finish was deflating for the US fans, who dominated the stadium. For the second time at this World Cup, a high-flying US team faced a healthy dose of adversity.

And just as they did in the dead-rubber group game against Turkey, they crumbled. Weston McKennie, usually reliable and safe at this World Cup, handed Belgium additional opportunities through loose touches and misplaced passes. Christian Pulisic was frequently dispossessed in the midfield. Chris Richards, an anchor at the back, nearly gave the ball to De Ketelaere on the doorstep of goal. It took desperate defending to prevent a second Belgian goal.

Malik Tillman’s equalizer came out of nowhere. Balogun was vital, winning a free-kick on the edge of the area with some nice hold-up play. Just as he had against Bosnia and Herzegovina last week, Tillman sent a looping ball over the wall, finding a kind deflection from Hans Vanaken to flat-foot Thibaut Courtois. With the goal, Tillman became just the second player in World Cup history to score twice from direct free-kicks in a single tournament.

That will be cold comfort for the US. Any hopes of Tillman’s strike kicking off a US fightback were quickly extinguished. Once again, the Belgian threat came from the US’s right. Trossard found space behind Freeman and played a well-weighted ball on to the head of De Ketelaere, who had done well to muscle between Tim Ream and Antonee Robinson.

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The dangers of the current moment have been underscored by China’s test of a long-range ballistic missile on Monday, the first such launch in nearly two years, and another huge Russian missile and drone attack on Kyiv.

NATO leaders are expected to endorse continued support for Ukraine, with the non-American members pledging $80 billion this year and next. President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine will attend, to press his urgent desire for more air defenses against the Russian onslaught.

Mark Rutte, the secretary general of NATO, is trying to walk a narrow line, prodding European member states to pay more for security while making sure Mr. Trump does not abandon the alliance in the process.

“We will breathe life into the concept of NATO 3.0: A stronger Europe in a stronger NATO,” he said last week.

But for several years at least, senior European officials say, the reality will be a gradually stronger Europe in a weaker NATO. There will be fewer American troops, fewer high-tech American capabilities and doubts that Mr. Trump would come to NATO’s aid in all circumstances, undermining deterrence.

Radoslaw Sikorski, Poland’s foreign minister and a former defense minister, outlined the transformation of NATO after it was founded in the aftermath of World War II.

“NATO 1.0 was a clear defense against Soviet aggression and expansionism, and NATO 2.0 was a post-Cold War search for purpose,” he said in an interview, with the alliance looking outside North America and Europe and, after Sept. 11, especially, to fight terrorism in Afghanistan and the Middle East.

Russia was seen as a possible ally and certainly less of a threat, and some European NATO members effectively disarmed, he said.

But with Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, China’s rising ambitions and Washington wanting to shift resources to Asia away from Europe, Mr. Sikorski said, “NATO 3.0 will mean that Europe will take more of the burden for conventional defense and the U.S. will be more of a cavalry-over-the-hill kind of ally.”

Time may be short to prepare. German and many NATO officials say a battle-hardened Russia would be ready for a war against NATO by 2029, so the pressure is on Europe to become more “war-ready,” as the Germans say, and on the United States not to create unnecessary vulnerabilities in the meantime.

In Ankara, Mr. Trump and his officials are expected to keep the pressure on other NATO members to pay more for defense, and to stick to a commitment made last year to increase spending to 5 percent of gross national product by 2035. Matthew Whitaker, the U.S. ambassador to NATO, warned allies last week that there may be benefits for those who pay up and difficulties for those who lag the others.

For a time, the Europeans hoped that American threats to reduce its contributions to NATO would fade, as they did in Mr. Trump’s first term. They now accept that the Americans are serious, and that they must step up in their own interests.

“It’s very clear that the U.S. role is changing,” said Claudia Major, an expert on trans-Atlantic security at the German Marshall Fund, a research group. She added that “the main hope is to do damage control and to get predictability.”

Europeans know they must do more, she said. The change “can be shaped but not avoided.”

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As more professionals begin to rely on artificial-intelligence tools in their work, could their hard-earned skills atrophy?

That possibility is a growing concern for medical specialists, computer scientists and other workers. Seventy per cent of nurses and 77% of physicians, for example, are worried about losing their skills because of over-reliance on AI systems, according to a survey of US health-care workers published earlier this month.

Their fear might be justified. Evidence suggests that AI-driven ‘deskilling’ is starting to happen in medicine, computer science and other fields. Researchers are now discussing how to preserve important human expertise in the age of AI.

“Just being aware that this phenomenon exists hopefully provokes some self-reflection about which skills people want to maintain and which they’re willing to outsource” to AI tools, says Kevin Crowston, an information scientist at Syracuse University in New York.

Spoiled by AI?

A study of physicians in Poland who specialize in endoscopy — the use of flexible probes to examine the inside of the human body — shows how quickly AI tools can erode human abilities. The physicians, who had all performed at least 2,000 colonoscopies during their careers, were given access to an AI system that analyses colonoscopy images in real time and flags a type of precancerous intestinal lesion called an adenoma. The tool was available to the specialists on some days but not on others.

Once physicians began using it, their performance dropped significantly whenever the system was unavailable. During the three-month period before the AI tool was introduced, the specialists found at least one adenoma during 28.4% of colonoscopies. During the three-month period after the tool was introduced, the adenoma detection rate for colonoscopies performed without AI assistance decreased to 22.4%.

The findings, published last October in The Lancet Gastroenterology and Hepatology, suggest that even highly skilled professionals might get worse at tasks that their job requires as they become more dependent on AI tools, says Robert Wachter, a physician at the University of California, San Francisco, who is the author of a book on how AI tools are transforming health care. The study authors say that continuous exposure to such tools can cause clinicians to become “less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance”.

Co-author Yuichi Mori, a physician-researcher at the University of Oslo, says that more studies are needed to confirm the phenomenon. But people who use AI tools should be aware that they risk losing some of their skills, he adds. “There is no established solution against deskilling right now. It should be a very hot research topic in the next decade.”

No lesson learnt

To investigate whether skills are being lost in the field of computer science, researchers at the AI firm Anthropic in San Francisco, California, designed a randomized controlled trial in which 52 software engineers were asked to perform a basic coding task. During the exercise, all 52 participants could search the web and access instructions on how to do the task. Half of the participants were prompted to use an AI assistant as well.

Afterwards, all of the software engineers were asked to complete a quiz about what they had learnt from the task. The participants who had used an AI assistant did significantly worse on the quiz than those who hadn’t: the average score was 50% in the AI group versus 67% in the non-AI group. The AI-assisted participants did particularly poorly on questions that required them to diagnose errors in the code, which suggests that they had failed to learn the concepts behind the code that they had just produced. The study was posted on the preprint server arXiv ahead of peer review.

The findings are of concern, especially for students and young professionals in the field, says Crowston, who is researching how the use of generative AI tools is changing the way that software developers learn and retain coding skills. “Now you have this very odd disconnect between performance and learning,” he says. “People can perform at a pretty high level, because they’re basically borrowing skills from the AI, but they are not developing those skills themselves.”

Outsourcing cognition

Other technologies have made particular skills obsolete in the past, notes Tapani Rinta-Kahila, an information-systems researcher at the Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki. For example, GPS navigation systems have eroded people’s navigation skills. Generative AI tools, however, are “the first technology that automates various cognitive faculties around thinking and interpretation, which were long considered unique human skills.”

Rinta-Kahila’s own work reinforces these concerns. In 2018, he published a study on a group of accountants who had been using an automated, non-AI accounting system continuously for more than a decade. His team found that, when the tool was taken away, the accountants had forgotten how to do several routine work tasks. He anticipates that AI systems will affect work in various ways as they take over basic tasks that were once performed by early-career professionals. “Next generations of programmers may not understand the foundations of coding that well at all, if they lack the hands-on experience,” he says. “The same goes for many other knowledge-intensive professions, such as accounting and law.”

To prevent AI-driven skill erosion, people need to be aware of how much they are offloading to generative AI tools, he says. They also need to understand exactly how generative AI models work and what their limitations are — and should avoid trusting AI outputs without questioning them. “People need to manage the competing dynamics of relying on generative AI and staying mindfully vigilant.”

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The Trump administration will not seek new bids to repair the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said Sunday as he faced new questions about the troubled project and the taxpayer money involved.

Like President Donald Trump, Burgum said he was 100% sure that vandals caused the damage to the century-old Reflecting Pool on the National Mall. Trump has charged that a 350-foot gash was cut into the pool’s liner in the midst of recent renovations, while Burgum described it as multiple cuts adding up to that figure. He also said the pool would have to be at least partially drained in the coming week to finish the repairs.

The repairs will not be opened up to new contractors, he said.

“We’ll use the same company, because they did a fantastic job,” Burgum told CNN’s “State of the Union.” ”Thankfully, the vandalism was small. It was bad. I mean, it could cost tens of thousands of dollars to repair, so then it could fall into a felony … just like damaging any other government property could. But the job that was done to fix the Reflecting Pool was done extremely well.”

Trump this spring pledged to beautify the Reflecting Pool before the nation’s 250th birthday celebrations on July Fourth. Water was drained, and the Republican president directed that the bottom be painted a color he called “American flag blue.” But after the site was restored, the water was plagued by an algae bloom for more than a week, and pieces of the new coating have appeared to be peeling off the bottom.

The pool was closed for the Independence Day celebration, but Burgum said that was due to a safety issue related to the fireworks.

The evolving debate over the Reflecting Pool has inflamed the broader fight over Trump’s aggressive push to overhaul Washington landmarks, including the White House, nearly two years into his final term in office.

Authorities have arrested more than a half dozen people in relation to Reflecting Pool damage, including former Olympian David Hearn, who was indicted last week on a felony of property destruction.

The top federal prosecutor in the District of Columbia, U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro, said Hearn ripped up recently installed sealant on the pool in “a deliberate act” that caused more than $1,000 in damage. She accused him of “forcefully and violently” pulling up the bottom liner “with both hands” and acting belligerently toward an employee who told him to stop.

Hearn’s lawyers, Democracy Defenders Fund co-founder Norm Eisen and Mary Dohrmann, said the charges were “outrageous and should be alarming to every American.” Eisen and Dohrmann construed the case as representative of “the misuse of government power against an ordinary citizen based on a concocted narrative.”Burgum was asked and did not answer directly whether there was photographic evidence of vandals cutting the pool’s liner. He was also asked whether Hearn should face a 10-year prison sentence, which is the maximum legal penalty for his charge.

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Workers install fireworks along the edge of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool ahead of the America 250 July 4th celebration on the National Mall, Thursday, July 2, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Nathan Howard) © The Associated Press

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