At least one busy muncher has gnawed away at about 15 cherry trees near the Jefferson Memorial.

In May, 140 flowering cherry trees will be removed between the Thomas Jefferson Memorial and the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial to prepare for construction, the park service said.

This year, visitors to the National Cherry Blossom Festival will notice nearly 150 missing cherry trees near the Thomas Jefferson Memorial and Potomac River - including the misshapen and battered ...

Thomas Jefferson, the once -revered sage of Monticello and principal author of the Declaration of Independence, has been knocked off his pedestal in recent years, the victim of what many ...