Lady Liberty’s torch emits a message of welcome, beckoning the oppressed seeking freedom and a better life. Her tablet includes no eligibility barriers, reconditions or restrictions.

On Monday, an artist -- or artists -- deposited a bronze-colored tiki torch clenched by a fist on Freedom Plaza NW, just a few blocks from the White House.

Washington has another new bronze-colored statue to join its “poop monument” counterpart — a tiki torch statue in Freedom Plaza just a few blocks from the White House.

Two politically pointed statues have mysteriously appeared in the nation’s capital in the leadup to the election: a pile of poop on the former House speaker's desk and a hand holding a tiki torch.

NEW YORK (AP) — The Statue of Liberty’s original torch, which has been housed in the base of the statue since a replica replaced it in the 1980s, was moved across Liberty Island on Thursday to its new ...