PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A U. S. appeals court late Friday said the Trump administration can halt work on a National Park Service slavery exhibit in Philadelphia while it appeals an order to reinstall it.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Visitors to the President's House site in Independence Mall were met on Thursday with what one described as "a big, empty space where there should be part of our history," after federal officials removed interpretive signs detailing the lives of the nine enslaved people once held at George Washington's presidential residence.