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Stopping President Trump's plans for a ballroom on the White House could disrupt the president's security, the Secret Service told a federal judge Monday, but officials promised more transparency and approvals before construction gets too far along. Government attorneys said the design of Mr. Trump's ballroom is "still in progress," so there is no plan to submit for approval to the relevant commissions. The attorneys said the lawsuit is premature until that point.

President Donald Trump on Monday reiterated that he is weighing whether to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, a statement that mirrors similar comments he made earlier this year and during his 2024 presidential campaign. Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, the president said he was considering an executive order to reclassify marijuana as a Schedule III drug. "We are considering that. A lot of people want to see it, the reclassification, because it leads to tremendous amounts of research that can't be done unless you reclassify," Trump said on Monday.

For fifteen years I've scalped tickets to pay the bills. But in January 2016 I almost managed a real career. I was thirty-one, I'd been in Los Angeles for five years writing scripts. There had been minor successes, a couple of small projects optioned, and I'd recently started writing with my best friend. We were writing constantly, making each other better, building momentum. Success felt close. Back then it always did.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy says proposals negotiated with US officials on a peace deal to end Russia's war in Ukraine could be finalised within days, after which American envoys will present them to the Kremlin. After two days of talks in Berlin, US officials said on Monday they had resolved "90%" of the problematic issues between Russia and Ukraine, but despite the positive spin it is not clear that an end to the war is any closer, particularly as the Russian side is absent from the current talks.

The U.S. is offering Ukraine security guarantees similar to those it would receive as part of NATO, American officials said Monday. The offer is the strongest and most explicit security pledge the Trump administration has put forward for Ukraine, but it comes with an implicit ultimatum: Take it now or the next iteration won't be as generous.