This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The White House East Wing has been demolished to make way for a $300-million ballroom that Trump envisions as a ...

Workers have demolished much of the 83-year-old East Wing in preparation for President Donald Trump’s planned $250 million ballroom at the White House. Demolition work began without prior public ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 22 (Reuters) - The full East Wing of the White House will be torn down to make way for President Donald Trump's new ballroom, contradicting the former New York real estate magnate's ...

Amid the rubble and rancor memorializing where the East Wing of the White House once stood, President Donald Trump and his team are trying to dig out. Public outrage has been piling up over the sudden ...

Demolition of the White House’s East Wing, itself a source of multiple controversies for more than 200 years, was completed Thursday. Excavators were spotted starting Monday tearing it apart. It was ...

While future guests of the White House will be having a ball in its forthcoming ballroom, for which demolition began on Monday, the massive renovation isn’t the first of its scale at 1600 Pennsylvania ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Leslie B. Jones, former Director of Historical Resources & Programming for the White House Historical Association, about the demolition of the White House East Wing.

Betty Ford reportedly said that if the White House West Wing is the “mind” of the nation, then the East Wing — the traditional power center for first ladies — is the “heart.” That “heart” beat for ...