美上诉法院裁定特朗普建白宫舞厅需国会批准

R HEADLINES IN WASHINGTON D.C. A FEDERAL APPEALS COURT RULED THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP CAN'T CONTINUE BUILDING HIS $400 MILLION WHITE HOUSE BALLROOM WITHOUT CONGRESSIONAL APPROVAL. IN A 2-1 RULING, THE JUDGES SIDED WITH PRESERVATIONISTS IN FINDING THAT THE PRESIDENT DOES NOT HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO BUILD THE 90,000 SQUARE-FOOT STRUCTURE ON THE SITE WHERE THE EAST WING ONCE STOOD. BUT CONSTRUCTION MAY NOT STOP RIGHT AWAY. THE JUDGES GAVE THE ADMINISTRATION TWO WEEKS TO APPEAL THE RULING TO THE SUPREME COURT.

PRESIDENT TRUMP CALLED THE DECISION "UNJUST" AND SAID IT SHOULD BE OVERTURNED "IN ITS ENTIRETY." MEANTIME, PRESIDENT TRUMP IS REVIVING HIS PUSH TO REMOVE LISA COOK FROM THE FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD OF GOVERNORS. THE "NEWSHOUR" HAS OBTAINED A LETTER THE WHITE HOUSE SENT TO COOK THIS WEEK, SAYING IT IS "CONSIDERING" REMOVING HER, AND GIVING HER 21 DAYS TO RESPOND TO UNPROVEN ALLEGATIONS OF MORTGAGE FRAUD. TRUMP AND HIS ALLIES TRIED TO FORCE COOK OUT LAST YEAR ON SIMILAR GROUNDS.

SHE FILED A LAWSUIT CHALLENGING HER DISMISSAL, AND IN JUNE, THE SUPREME COURT BLOCKED TRUMP FROM FIRING COOK WHILE HER SUIT IS PENDING. BUT, THEY DID NOT WEIGH IN ON THE UNDERLYING ALLEGATIONS AGAINST HER. COOK'S LAWYER CALLED THE CLAIMS "BASELESS." IN THAILAND, A STUDENT SHOT AND KILLED AT LEAST SEVEN PEOPLE TODAY, INCLUDING FIVE AT HIS HIGH SCHOOL, OUTSIDE OF BANGKOK. OFFICIALS SAY THE 14-YEAR-OLD KILLED HIS GRANDPARENTS AT THEIR HOME FIRST, BEFORE OPENING FIRE AT THE SCHOOL, USING A GUN THAT BELONGED TO HIS GRANDFATHER.

THEY SAY HE THEN TOOK HIS OWN LIFE. STUDENTS WHO HAVE BEEN BLURRED BY THAILAND'S PUBLIC BROADCASTING FOR PRIVACY WERE HURRIED OUT OF THE BUILDING, AS OTHERS CONSOLED ONE ANOTHER. HOSPITAL OFFICIALS SAY NEARLY TWO DOZEN PEOPLE WERE HURT, SOME CRITICALLY. INVESTIGATORS ARE STILL SEARCHING FOR A MOTIVE, BUT ON A VISIT TO THE SCHOOL, THE COUNTRY'S PRIME MINISTER SAID MENTAL HEALTH WAS A FACTOR.

THIS IS, IT IS VIOLENCE, BUT IT IS NOT CAUSED BY CRIMINALS, IT WAS CAUSED BY AN INDIVIDUAL WHO HAD CARRIED A LOT OF PRESSURES AND TENSIONS. AMNA: CLASSES HAVE BEEN SUSPENDED AT THE SCHOOL THROUGH THE END OF NEXT WEEK. THE SHOOTING HAS REVIVED A DEBATE ABOUT GUN LAWS IN THAILAND, WHICH HAS ONE OF THE HIGHEST RATES OF GUN OWNERSHIP IN ALL OF ASIA. A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF WASHINGTON STATE, AS FIREFIGHTERS WORK TO CONTAIN A NUMBER OF BLAZES.

OFFICIALS SAY MORE THAN 850 BUILDINGS HAVE BURNED, AND ENTIRE NEIGHBORHOODS HAVE BEEN DESTROYED SINCE THE FIRES BROKE OUT LAST WEEKEND. TENS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE WERE EVACUATED, AND POLICE SAY IT COULD BE WEEKS BEFORE EVERYONE IS ALLOWED BACK HOME DUE TO THE TOXIC AIR AND POTENTIAL FOR NEW FIRES. MEANTIME, THE MAN CHARGED WITH STARTING ONE OF THE FIRES APPEARED IN COURT VIA VIDEO YESTERDAY. POLICE SAY AARON FARINACCI PLANNED THE CRIME FOR WEEKS BEFOREHAND, AND CHOSE A HOT, WINDY DAY TO CAUSE MAXIMUM DAMAGE.

IN MINNESOTA, PLANES WERE BACK IN THE AIR TODAY AFTER AN AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL OUTAGE IN MINNEAPOLIS GR