An demonstrator scaled the George Washington Statue in Union Square during a pro-Palestinian protest on May 15, 2025. (Kerry Burke/New York Daily News) “I want peace in the world!” he declared.

LONDON, U.K. (7News) — A ceremony held by Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin and United Kingdom leaders rededicated a statue of George Washington in London's famous Trafalgar Square. The restored ...

CHICAGO, Illinois (WBBM) — Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s office recently said it was going to remove a statue of George Washington on the fifth floor of City Hall near the Mayor’s Office ...

This reputation made it an easy sell when, 131 years after the Revolutionary War, Virginia offered London a Washington of its own. The statue arrived in 1914, and King George V personally approved ...