An excavator works to clear rubble after the East Wing of the White House was demolished on October 23, 2025 in Washington, DC (Eric Lee/Getty Images) The demolition of the East Wing of the White ...

Will President Trump’s East Wing ballroom hold 650 people, or 999, as Mr. Trump said this week? Or maybe it will hold 1,350 people, according to a drawing Mr. Trump held up in the Oval Office this ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. When the president of the United States decides to demolish the East Wing of the White House to construct a ballroom, all that stucco and molding and wood had to ...

The East Wing of the White House on a clear fall day in 2023. (Kevin Carter/Getty Images) Despite previously vowing that construction of his new $300 million, 90,000-square-foot ballroom “won’t ...

Arden Farhi is the managing editor for CBS News' Washington bureau. He has covered several presidential campaigns and the Obama, Trump and Biden administrations. His executive producer credit include ...

The rubble of the East Wing and East Corridor of the White House, after it was demolished by the Trump administration. Photo by Eric Lee/Getty Images Outside the White House on Thursday, in the ...

The East Wing of the White House, the traditional headquarters for the first lady and her staff as well as the public entrance to the “people’s house,” was largely torn down this week to make way for ...

The iconic building in the White House complex was officially demolished Thursday to make room for President Donald Trump's new $300 million ballroom. But as people see photographs and videos of the ...

When bulldozers began to tear down the East Wing of the White House this week to clear the way for President Donald Trump’s $250 million ballroom, historians raised alarms that important American ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — New satellite images taken Thursday show the scale of the demolition of the White House East Wing as President Donald Trump moves forward with the construction of a new ballroom at ...

Washington — The entire White House East Wing appears to have been demolished, new images show, after the White House said President Trump doesn't need to seek approval to tear it down. Photos taken ...