Court halts White House ballroom project pending Congress approval

A federal judge ordered construction of President Trump’s White House ballroom halted until Congress authorizes the project, marking a legal check on White House renovations. The live brief also notes King Charles III’s April U.S. state visit, a ruling that Trump’s NPR/PBS funding order violated the First Amendment, and other Trump-related items including CBP One migration-status reversals, a Penn subpoena dispute, a class-action suit by fired FBI agents, JD Vance’s forthcoming faith memoir, consideration of LOCUST anti-drone lasers near Fort McNair, a Russian oil tanker docking in Cuba, and Trump’s video rendering of a planned Miami presidential library.