A federal appeals court will allow the White House to exclude the Associated Press from access to the Oval Office, Mar-a-Lago and Air Force One if it chooses, according to a new court order in the ongoing legal battle over press access.

A divided panel of the appeals court lifted portions of a lower-court judge's ruling that had blocked the ban.

A federal appeals court ruled that Donald Trump’s White House can resume restricting access to the Associated Press to the Oval Office, Air Force One and Mar-A-Lago. “The White House is likely to succeed on the merits because these restricted presidential spaces are not First Amendment fora opened for private speech and discussion,