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Washington National Opera sues Kennedy Center for $17 million

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The Washington National Opera is accusing the Kennedy Center of failing to return more than $17 million in donor funds, escalating a dispute that followed the end of a 15-year partnership between the two institutions. In a court filing, the opera company said the money in question came from years of contributions by supporters who […]

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DOJ sues Virginia over ‘unconstitutional’ ICE mask ban

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DOJ sues Virginia over ‘unconstitutional’ ICE mask ban

The Justice Department on Thursday sued Virginia, arguing that the state’s mask ban for federal law enforcement and related identification requirements unconstitutionally interfere with federal officers and criminalize core aspects of federal operations. The lawsuit, which was filed against Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones and Fairfax County prosecutor Steve Descano, challenged provisions that prohibit law […]

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WATCH: Workers finally tear Donald Trump's name off Kennedy Center

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WATCH: Workers finally tear Donald Trump's name off Kennedy Center

Workers began tearing Donald Trump's name off the Kennedy Center Friday, carrying out a federal court order his own lawyers had scrambled overnight to block.A federal judge ruled last month that the renaming was flatly illegal. U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper said Trump's hand-picked board never had the authority to put the president's name on the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts — because Congress created it and only Congress gets to rename it. The lawsuit was filed by Rep. Joyce Beatty, an Ohio Democrat who sits on the center's board as an ex officio member."Congress gave the Kennedy Center its name, and only Congress can change it," Cooper wrote in his ruling, giving the administration 14 days to strip Trump's name from the building.Trump's board had voted in December 2025 to rename the iconic performing arts venue, and workers bolted his name to the facade overnight — without a congressional vote and without public input.Friday was the deadline to take it back down. Trump's lawyers tried to run out the clock, arguing the removal would be "incredibly confusing for the public" and a waste of money if the name eventually goes back up. The Department of Justice filed a notice of appeal Thursday night. Trump's name had already been scrubbed from the center's website and social media pages earlier this week. After the original court ruling, Trump took to social media to vent. "Unless I am free to do what I do better than anyone else, bring this Institution back, physically, financially, and artistically, I have no interest in continuing what could only be a hopeless journey into 'NEVER NEVER LAND,'" he wrote.

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'Take it down!' Crowd electric as workers tear Trump's name off Kennedy Center

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'Take it down!' Crowd electric as workers tear Trump's name off Kennedy Center

Workers were tearing President Donald Trump's name off the Kennedy Center on Friday as onlookers nearby chanted and cheered.Thousands tuned in on livestreams from ABC 7, WUSA9, Reuters, Fox 10, the Associated Press, Forbes, and MS NOW to watch it happen in real time. A crowd assembled outside the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts as workers erected scaffolding on the façade. A judge had killed the Trump board's last-ditch legal attempt to stop the removal just hours earlier, leaving a midnight deadline intact.Then the chanting started."Take it down!" — 15 times in a row. The crowd exploded into applause and cheers.About a minute passed."Take it down!" — 11 more times. More cheering. Someone hollered "Woo!" The energy didn't drop.After another minute, there were nine more chants, more applause, more whoops, more noise — the whole thing playing out over roughly 2-1/2 minutes of pure crowd electricity.The backstory: Trump's handpicked board illegally slapped his name onto the center's marble façade in December 2025, a federal judge ruled, because only Congress gets to change the name of a building named by Congress. When that ruling first came down in May, Kerry Kennedy — a niece of President John F. Kennedy — declared she might not need the pickaxe she'd famously vowed to grab once Trump left office.As of publication, the scaffolding is up, and workers were on site — but the letters haven't fully come down yet. The clock runs out at midnight.

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The World Cup Is Bringing Millions to the U.S. Should You Worry About Infectious Diseases?

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The World Cup Is Bringing Millions to the U.S. Should You Worry About Infectious Diseases?

Doctors weigh in about the potential disease risks of a major international event like the World Cup.

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Kennedy Center filing 'dunks' on Trump over small crowd sizes

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Kennedy Center filing 'dunks' on Trump over small crowd sizes

A court filing Friday documented the wreckage of President Donald Trump's Kennedy Center vanity project — highlighting fleeing artists, cratering ticket sales, and an Honors broadcast nobody watched.The midnight deadline to scrub Trump's name from the Kennedy Center was still ticking Friday. Rep. Joyce Beatty, an Ohio Democrat and ex officio board member — meaning she holds her seat by virtue of her congressional position, not a Trump appointment — had just fired back at Trump's lawyers, who'd asked the judge to freeze his own order.The numbers in Beatty's filing claimed after the renaming, "many artists canceled upcoming performances," and ticket sales "experienced a precipitous drop as compared to prior years, as did viewership of the Kennedy Center Honors broadcast." CBS News congressional correspondent Scott MacFarlane posted on X that the filing "dunks on the name change itself and 'crowd size.'"The 94-page ruling that led to the deadline cited a Wall Street Journal analysis that found ticket sales plunged 70% in a single week after the renaming, compared with the prior three years.For days, it looked like Trump's team was waving the white flag. Workers slapped new stickers with the original Kennedy Center name onto buses parked outside. The website dropped Trump's name. Staff got a memo telling them to scrub it from email signatures immediately — CNN reported the website was already clean by June 8.Then Trump himself joined a virtual board meeting Thursday night, and the board voted to fight back, according to the New York Times. Their lawyers raced a last-minute motion to court — essentially asking the judge to hit pause on his own order — arguing that removing the name would be "wasteful" and "incredibly confusing for the public."Beatty's filing shot back. "'It should go without saying that the Court can, and should, reject out of hand Defendants' rather silly suggestion that enforcing the law would be 'incredibly confusing for the public."Beatty's lawyers also argued in the filing that the Trump administration "waited two weeks and within hours of the deadline" before asking for emergency relief — proof, they say, that no real harm is at stake. The whole move, they wrote, is a "frivolous" eleventh-hour gambit.If the judge says no, Trump's lawyers could take the fight to a federal appeals court.

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Judge won’t halt deadline to take Trump’s name off Kennedy Center

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Judge won’t halt deadline to take Trump’s name off Kennedy Center

A federal judge on Friday rejected an eleventh-hour attempt by the Kennedy Center to pause the removal of President Trump’s name from the renowned performing arts center while an appeal plays out. The institution’s board had asked Judge Christopher Cooper to halt his previous order requiring that Trump’s name come off the façade of the…

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Judge denies last-minute bid to keep Trump's name on Kennedy Center

A federal judge denied a last-minute attempt by the Trump administration to stop the removal of President Trump's name from the Kennedy Center.

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Washington National Opera sues, says Kennedy Center owes it $17M

The Washington National Opera (WNO) filed a lawsuit Thursday, alleging that the Kennedy Center failed to return more than $17 million in donations made to the organization after its split from the venue earlier this year. The WNO cited the Kennedy Center’s position as a federally chartered entity and its membership in the Smithsonian Institution…

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