Thousands gathered in the nation’s capital for a decades-old tradition. “It gives you a chance to pray for the country,” said ...

The retreating night clung gray-blue as the crowd began ... annual service hosted by the National Community Church at the Lincoln Memorial, its stone inhabitant watching on.

A circle of 56 columns (representing the U.S. states and territories from the era) looks over the Rainbow Pool. At night ... Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial, and can be reached ...