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The Latest Breaking News from The National Trust for Historic Preservation

Group refuses to drop Trump Ballroom lawsuit despite pressure from justice department

The Justice Department laid pressure on the preservationists to drop their lawsuit following this weekend’s shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner

The Independent UK

Trump Used Saturday's Shooting to Give Historic Preservationists a 9AM Deadline to Drop Their Lawsuit, or the DOJ Will Kill It for Them

Following a security breach at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, the Trump administration pressures the National Trust to drop its lawsuit against the White House ballroom construction, citing security concerns.

International Business Times UK

Justice Department cites dinner shooting to press preservationists to drop Trump ballroom suit

The Justice Department is pushing to dismiss a lawsuit blocking President Donald Trump's $400 million White House ballroom project

The Independent UK

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Trump Prioritises Infrastructure Over Security Reform Following Shooting at White House Social Event – 'We Need a Ballroom'

Following a shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, President Trump pushes for a new ballroom, citing security needs. The project faces legal challenges and raises conflict-of-interest concerns.

International Business Times UK

Beneath Trump's ballroom legal case: A brief history of the White House bunker

President Donald Trump’s court fight over the $400 million White House East Wing ballroom casts some light on an underground bunker at the site

The Independent UK

‘Could only happen to Trump’: President hijacks Cabinet meeting to cry about lawsuits over his radical DC plans

President launches into extended stemwinder of grievances ranging from lawsuits over the Kennedy Center to the Justice Department’s failure to bring sham charges against Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell

The Independent UK

Trump Defends £310 Million White House Ballroom Without Congressional Approval As Judge Signals It May Be Illegal

A federal judge questions the legality of President Trump's plan to build a ballroom at the White House, citing potential violations of federal law.

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Federal judge grills Trump administration lawyers over ‘brazen’ plans for president’s $400M White House ballroom

Calling the project ‘an alteration…takes some brazen interpretation of the laws of vocabulary,’ the judge said

The Independent UK

‘Everything here feels inflated’: Trump’s White House ballroom is too big and should be scaled back, architect says

The plans were recently deluged with negative messages as part of the public comment process

The Independent UK

Trump's White House ballroom is too big, architect says, as 2nd panel prepares to vote on it

President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom project is too big and should be scaled back

The Independent UK

Arts panel of Trump appointees approves $400M White House ballroom plan

It comes after the National Trust for Historic Preservation sued to halt construction of the ballroom

The Independent UK

Trump’s push to have donors fund his $400 million White House ballroom might cost him the whole project

Donations get pushed through a nonprofit intermediary, which stands to see major profits as a result

The Independent UK

Trump claims $400 million ballroom lawsuit accidentally exposed a military secret he wasn’t supposed to spill

Trump is not backing down from his passion project.

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Trump launches 450-word rant about his ballroom and says a lawsuit to stop it being built would be ‘devastating’ for US

‘Making such a large gift to the U.S.A. was thought to be, by almost everyone, ‘A WONDERFUL THING TO DO’ — But no, as usual, I got sued,’ the president laments on Truth Social

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Trump appoints new members to panel reviewing White House ballroom

The president has long championed the construction of the proposed 90,000-square-foot addition

International Business Times UK

'He Needs to Be Reminded Where He Is': Trump Sparks 'Dementia' Row With New White House Sign

Donald Trump faces renewed 'dementia' allegations after installing a gilded 'Rose Garden' sign. Critics suggest the 79-year-old POTUS is using signs as memory aids.

The Independent UK

As Trump works to build his $400M ballroom at the White House, officials say no more construction projects are planned

White House ballroom has jumped from original estimate of $200 million to $400 million

The Independent UK

Head of group suing over White House ballroom says she trusts Trump-picked chairman to do his job

The president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation says she trusts the Trump-appointed chairman of a federal planning commission to do his job and seriously review President Donald Trump's proposal to build a ballroom at the White House

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Roll Call

Historic preservation trust sues Trump over White House ballroom - Roll Call

The National Trust for Historic Preservation sued the administration Friday in an effort to stop construction of the White House ballroom.

The Guardian - US

Seth Meyers on Trump’s White House ballroom: ‘This couldn’t be any more of a bait and switch’

Late-night hosts discussed the president’s demolition of the East Wing to make room for a huge $300m gilded ballroom

The Independent UK

If Trump’s East Wing demolition shocks you, check out what he did to priceless works meant for the Metropolitan Museum of Art

A young Trump took on development of a historic Art Deco building on Fifth Avenue in the late 1970s

Fortune

MacKenzie Scott triples down on DEI with $40 million donation to African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund

In 2021, the billionaire donated $20 million to the same organization, dedicated to preserving U.S. sites associated with Black history.

Fortune

Diane Keaton's quiet activism helped preserve these Los Angeles landmarks

"I’ll never understand why architecture is considered a second cousin to painting and film," Diane Keaton wrote in 2008.

Wallpaper

The three lives of the Edith Farnsworth House: now, a modernist architecture icon open to all

The modernist Edith Farnsworth House has had three lives since its conception in 1951 by Mies van der Rohe; the latest is a sensitive renovation, and it's open to the public

Chicago Sun-Times

Chicago’s Chinatown, unlike similar neighborhoods elsewhere, is flourishing

It’s growing, expanding into nearby neighborhoods even as traditional Chinese American communities in other cities face pressures from development.

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