An appeals court ruled earlier Friday that construction must stop until Congress authorizes the project.

A US federal appeals court has ordered the Trump administration to stop construction on a $400m (€346m) ballroom on the site of the White House’s demolished East Wing, dealing President Donald Trump a...

The US President, the court said, doesn’t have the unilateral authority to build a 90,000-square-foot ballroom where the White House’s East Wing stood before he ordered its demolition last fall, accor...