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Trump’s White House Ballroom Proposal Faces Preservation Concerns Ahead of Federal Vote
A federal planning commission is set to vote Thursday on President Donald Trump’s proposal to build a massive ballroom at the White House, a plan critics say would dramatically alter the scale and historic layout of the presidential residence. The National Capital Planning Commission will consider the proposal for a roughly 90,000-square-foot addition to the read more
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Where Did the IMLS’s Funding for Museums and Libraries Go? Into Trump’s ‘Freedom Truck’ Road Show, It Seems
Have you always wished that you could visit a museum devoted to U.S. history, like maybe the one at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., but wished that rather than a brick-and-mortar museum in the nation’s capital, it could be on a tractor trailer in, say, Ft. Campbell, Kentucky, or Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania? Well, the read more
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Commission of Fine Arts Approves Trump’s Proposed White House Ballroom
On Thursday, President Donald Trump came one step closer to building his $400 million White House ballroom, when an arts commission packed with allies approved designs for the project. Instead of holding a preliminary vote, the Commission of Fine Arts bypassed the usual review process and gave its final approval of the proposal; this means read more
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Veterans Sue Over Trump’s Arch, Saying It Would Blight Arlington National Cemetery and Nearby Monuments
A group of three military veterans and a historical preservationist filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration’s proposed 250-foot arch that opponents contend would mar the views from Arlington National Cemetery to other monuments around Washington, D.C. At 250 feet, the arch would be more than twice as tall as the Lincoln Memorial. And at read more
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Defying Trump’s Orders, NYC Re-Raises Pride Flag at Stonewall
New York politicians and activists hoisted a large Pride flag to the Stonewall National Monument’s flagpole on Thursday afternoon, February 12, in defiance of a federal directive to take down any flags or pennants that aren’t the United States flag or from the Department of the Interior. It takes a lot to get New Yorkers read more
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Pride Flag Removed From Stonewall Monument at Trump’s Directive
News The move comes a year after the National Park Service scrubbed mentions of queer and trans people from its website, prompting protests at the NYC landmark. A view of Christopher Park in Manhattan showing a flagpole stripped of its large rainbow flag on February 10, 2026 (all photos Hrag Vartanian/Hyperallergic unless noted) A large read more
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Smithsonian Complies With Trump’s Documents Request
News The institution handed over wall texts and other materials as part of the White House’s targeted inquiry into the museum system. Demonstrators protesting against Trump’s executive actions aimed at the Smithsonian institution on May 3, 2025, in Washington, DC (photo by Craig Hudson/Washington Post via Getty Images) Months after the Trump administration promised to read more
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Trump’s immigration data dragnet
“I’ve seen the apps and I don’t like them,” says a DHS official who left this year. “It’s rife for abuse.I imagine they’re being used in ways they were not intended.” He highlighted the risks of misidentification, noting that facial recognition often has elevated error rates for people of colour. “I have no confidence that read more
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