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A federal appeals court has cleared the way for the Trump administration to replace interpretive exhibits at Philadelphia’s President’s House, allowing officials to move forward with changes to a slavery memorial that critics say will diminish the history of slavery in the nation’s first executive mansion. The U.S. Court of …

In a scathing opinion, U.S. District Court Judge Cynthia Rufe, a George W. Bush appointee, ordered the federal government to restore exhibits on slavery that had been removed from the President’s House in Philadelphia last month. While the order provides no deadline for the government to reinstall the exhibitions, it …