Situation Room in White House gets $50 million gut renovation. Here's how it turned out.
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The White House Situation Room, where the president works through major national security crises with top national security officials, just underwent a $50 million gut renovation, and the revamped secret complex was just unveiled Friday morning.
The "room," which is in fact a 5,500-square-foot highly secure complex of conference rooms and offices on the ground floor of the West Wing, is generally shrouded in secrecy. History happens here — it's where President Barack Obama and his team, including then-Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and current Secretary of State Antony Blinken, watched the raid that took down al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in 2011. In 2019, President Donald Trump monitored the operation that killed Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. President Lyndon Johnson went over Vietnam War plans here, too.
Presidents also use the room to discuss sensitive government matters and converse with foreign leaders.
After four days of voting, with more than 400 million people eligible across 27 countries, European voters have pulled the bloc's 720-seat parliament farther to the right than it has ever been. The European Parliament, for the next five years, will now have a record number of far-right legislators. Far-right parties made gains in Europe's top three economies — Germany, France and Italy — with gains by politicians who campaigned against immigration, against support for Ukraine and against climate policy.
Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference is typically a springboard for the company to announce new tech features for its software programs, and not as flashy as its yearly September event to trumpet its latest iPhone rollout. But this year, the WWDC could be a make-or-break moment for the tech giant.