Great Hall

Huge new security checkpoints are coming to Reagan National Airport. News4 Transportation Reporter Adam Tuss shows how the feel of the airport will be much different.

Justice John Paul Stevens was honored Monday at the Great Hall at the U.S. Supreme Court. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump paid their respects as did several supreme court justices.

Retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens was remembered as a “brilliant man” with a “deep devotion to the rule of law” during a ceremony Monday at the court where he served for nearly 35 years. The 99-year-old Stevens died last week after suffering a stroke. Justice Elena Kagan, who replaced Stevens on the court after he retired in 2010,...

The public paid their respects on Monday to retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, who died on July 16 at age 99 after suffering a stroke.

The decor is heavily inspired by the movies fans know and love. Floating candles hang below a starry night “sky,” just like the Great Hall at Hogwarts.

The National Building Museum’s next Summer Block Party installation will be the Lawn, a vast green lawn centered in the museum’s Great Hall.

In an unusual step, China’s ceremonial legislature is due to endorse a law meant to help end a bruising tariff war with Washington by discouraging officials from pressuring foreign companies to hand over technology. The battle with China’s biggest trading partner is overshadowing the National People’s Congress, the country’s highest-profile event of the year. It brings 3,000-plus delegates to the...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un likely used a trip to China to talk with President Xi Jinping as a way to indicate to U.S. President Donald Trump that he’s got power in negotiations over Noth Korea’s nuclear arsenal, experts told NBC News. Kim took a luxury train plated with armor to Beijing on Tuesday for the talks, their fourth...

Xi Jinping was reappointed Saturday as China’s president with no limit on the number of terms he can serve. The National People’s Congress, China’s rubber-stamp legislature, also appointed close Xi ally Wang Qishan to the formerly ceremonial post of vice president. At the Great Hall of the People, Xi, Wang and other officials took turns stepping to the lectern to...

President Donald Trump said he didn’t “blame China” for what he claimed was an unfair trade deficit between China and the United States on Nov. 8, 2017. “I give China great credit,” he said, before casting blame on past American administrations,

President Donald Trump on Thursday criticized the “very one-sided and unfair” trade relationship between the U.S. and China, but stopped short of castigating Chinese President Xi Jinping by saying he doesn’t blame the country for having taken advantage of the U.S. Speaking after the announcement of new business deals between U.S. and Chinese companies, Trump said China “must immediately address...

A transgender teen who sued to be able to use the boys’ bathroom was honored Wednesday by members of a Justice Department whose leadership undercut his landmark case before it could be heard by the Supreme Court....
DOJ Pride, an organization of LGBT Justice Department employees, recognized Gavin Grimm’s “outstanding contributions to the LGBT community” during a ceremony in the building’s...

Last summer, the National Building Museum brought the beach to D.C. But this year, ICEBERGS will be taking over the Great Hall starting in July.