{
  "id": 1592447,
  "title": "Judge blocks the Trump administration from moving FBI headquarters to DC office building",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/17/judge-blocks-the-trump-administration-from-moving-fbi-headquarters-to",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-17T23:53:01.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Associated Press",
    "slug": "associated-press",
    "url": "https://apnews.com/article/fbi-headquarters-maryland-reagan-building-f5a77411bf54f3e17beb9cd41fd046a8"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "A U.S. judge has blocked the Trump administration's plan to move the FBI's headquarters to a federal office building in Washington, D.C., ruling that the decision was illegal. The FBI's current headquarters, the J. Edgar Hoover Building, has been in operation since 1975. The decision was made by U.S. District Judge Theodore D. Chuang, an Obama appointee. Maryland and Prince George's County had spent over a decade and hundreds of millions of dollars preparing the Greenbelt, Maryland site for the FBI headquarters. Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown praised the court's decision to uphold the original plan and return the project to Greenbelt.",
  "summary": "A U.S. judge on Monday blocked plans to move the FBI’s headquarters to a federal office building in Washington, finding that President Donald Trump’s administration illegally tossed out a previously approved plan to build a new…",
  "key_points": [
    "U.S. judge blocks Trump admin's FBI HQ move plan",
    "Judge Theodore D. Chuang rules decision illegal",
    "Maryland spent over a decade preparing Greenbelt site"
  ],
  "editors_take": "The ruling upholds the original plan to build the FBI headquarters in Greenbelt, Maryland, dealing a setback to the Trump administration's effort to relocate it to a Washington, D.C. office building.",
  "illustration": null,
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        "published": "2026-08-17T23:41:55.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "New Straits Times",
        "title": "US judge blocks Trump administration's plan to scrap FBI headquarters move to Maryland",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/18/us-judge-blocks-trump-administrations-plan-to-scrap-fbi-headquarters",
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        "outlet": "CBS News",
        "title": "Judge blocks plan to move FBI headquarters to Reagan Building",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/18/judge-blocks-plan-to-move-fbi-headquarters-to-reagan-building",
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        "outlet": "The Hill",
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        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/18/jeffries-trump-administration-must-protect-palestinians-from",
        "published": "2026-08-18T02:00:01.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "ABC News (US)",
        "title": "Judge blocks Trump administration from moving FBI headquarters to DC office building",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/18/judge-blocks-trump-administration-from-moving-fbi-headquarters-to-dc",
        "published": "2026-08-18T02:56:08.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}