Donald Trump has reacted furiously on social media, after his administration was ordered to stop construction of his personal project, a $400m ballroom at the White House.

A federal appeals court has dealt the latest setback to the controversial project, testing Trump’s presidential authority. He has vowed to appeal to the Supreme Court.

“Whether or not a ⁠massive ballroom should be constructed is for Congress to decide and is not a matter for Executive self-help,” the panel’s majority said.

The order upholds a preliminary injunction won by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, which sued after the administration tore down the East Wing last year to begin the project without congressional approval.

The three-judge panel, in a 2-1 decision, said: “Each President is a temporary tenant, not the owner, of the White House and its Executive Residence.”

“The President has no – and claims no – constitutionally assigned authority over that property, which is designed and maintained for the use of all Presidents, current and future, and for the American people,” the judges said.

Trump railed against the “horrendous” and “politically motivated” decision on social media, highlighting the dissenting judge’s opinion that the order is “a blatant abuse of discretion”.

He said the military and Secret Service viewed the ruling as a national security threat.

Jane Hill presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Sarah Smith in Washington.

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Will UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham bringing forward a ban on ‘subscription traps’ address people’s concerns about the cost of living?

Adam is joined onstage at the Edinburgh Fringe by Caitriona Perry and Joe Pike (plus a live audience of Newscasters!), to discuss Andy Burnham’s nationwide cost of living tour. Plus, how did Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband’s meeting with his counterpart Marco Rubio go? And, how was alleged cartel boss Daniel Kinahan extradited from Dubai to a court in Dublin?

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At least 132 people are dead and a state of emergency has been declared after Colombia was hit by one of its largest earthquakes in years.

The death toll is likely to rise, with more feared trapped under collapsed buildings.

The magnitude 7.4 quake struck at 07:34 (12:34 GMT) at a depth of 103km (64 miles) in Chocó province, the country’s geological service said. It was felt across an enormous area, stretching for hundreds of miles across western Colombia.

Many of the deaths have been concentrated in the city of Pereira, in Colombia’s coffee-growing region, with surrounding cities and the Valle del Cauca region also hit hard.

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Why did tens of thousands of migrants from Morocco suddenly attempt to cross into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta by sea last week?

In the days since the sudden border crisis left at least 72 people dead, a variety of theories have circulated.

The Trump administration blamed the incident on “radical left-wing globalist policies”, and many European leaders condemned what they say is Spain’s lax immigration policy.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez denied those claims and blamed trafficking gangs. Others have blamed Morocco, and accused it of ‘weaponising’ migrants for political purposes.

We speak to the BBC’s Southern and Eastern Europe correspondent, Sarah Rainsford, to find out how and why the Ceuta crisis happened.

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0:00 Who’s to blame for the chaos on Spain’s border?
1:17 What actually happened in Ceuta?
3:20 Why did so many people cross at once?
5:06 Why have most migrants already returned?
6:47 Was this planned by Morocco?
8:20 How social media fuelled misinformation
10:05 Is Spain becoming softer on migration?
12:10 How divided is Europe on immigration?
14:15 Was Morocco using migration as political pressure?
15:55 Why has the crisis become so political?
19:00 Is Spain really facing a migration surge?
21:02 How Donald Trump got involved

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Convicted sex offender Simon Levy, 40, from Tottenham, has been found guilty of murdering two women and violently raping a third surviving woman.

Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo, 54, was found dead in the stairwell of a derelict building in Walworth, Southwark in March 2025 and Sheryl Wilkins, 39, was found dead in Tottenham, north London in August.

Levy, who was being risk managed by the Met, was also found guilty of two rapes, grievous bodily harm and intentional suffocation, against a third surviving woman in Tottenham in January 2025.

When Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo was murdered in March last year, the killer made no attempt to hide her body. She was discovered, with visible injuries, lying face-down in the stairwell of a derelict block of flats in south London.

The DNA of registered sex offender Simon Levy was found on Carmenza’s body and he was arrested on suspicion of murder by local officers. But he was released without charge and the Metropolitan Police decided not to pursue a murder investigation.

The BBC can now report in detail how, earlier this year, Levy was also convicted of sexual assaults against 10 women on the tube between 2023 and 2025, and the sexual assault of a prison officer in 2022.

BBC News has been following Levy’s case and can now reveal the multiple failings of the authorities, the Met, British Transport Police (BTP) and courts, which led to Levy being able to continue to harm women – and eventually kill two.

The Met has accepted that the life of Sheryl Wilkins could have been saved, had it not been for its failure to prosecute Levy sooner.

There has been a “collective system failure” and it is a “tragedy beyond words that I can express,” deputy assistant commissioner Kevin Southworth told the BBC.

He has apologised to Sheryl’s family, he says, for “any role that we’ve played in failing to protect her from this man”.

Detective Chief Superintendent Pete Fulton, from BTP, said that delays in carrying out ID parades on Levy “absolutely wasn’t good enough” and was down to “incompetence” by two officers who have since been moved to other roles.

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