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Compared with the breakneck pace of the Trump administration's White House renovations, work to refurbish Canada's Parliament could take 30 years.
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President Trump initially said the ballroom construction would not dismantle parts of the White House. His officials now say it is cheaper and more structurally sound to simply demolish the East Wing.
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The East Wing has been a base for the first lady, an entryway for social functions and an emergency bunker.
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President Trump's demolition of the East Wing has struck a nerve in Washington and beyond.
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Dozens of federal officers descended on the sidewalks of Lower Manhattan on Tuesday, detaining nine people and drawing protests.
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Many preservationists fear the answer is no. A pro-Trump review board is expected to approve the president's planned 90,000-square-foot ballroom, too.
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The president said the new building would be connected to the White House with a glass bridge.
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Tensions are escalating between Colombia and the United States as President Trump conducts deadly airstrikes on supposed "drug boats" in the Caribbean. Colombian President Gustavo Petro accused the U.S. of committing murder for killing a Colombian fisherman in one attack in mid-September and just recalled the country's ambassador, Daniel García-Peña.
"Even if they were in fact carrying drugs, the procedure is to capture them, to seize them, to arrest them and to find information about who was behind them, and not blowing them up," García-Peña tells Democracy Now! from Bogotá.
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