Former first son Hunter Biden on Friday defended Graham Platner, the embattled progressive candidate running for U.S. Senate in Maine, urging voters to give him a break during an appearance on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D-CA) podcast. Platner, a Marine veteran and oyster farmer, has faced mounting scrutiny over his past conduct, particularly allegations involving his […]
The Kennedy Center board filed an emergency appeal to block a judge's order requiring Trump's name to be removed from the building's signage and materials.
Spencer Pratt says he has damaging evidence against one of the Los Angeles mayoral candidates after he was boxed out of the primary election.Pratt initially came in second place when the first ballot count was announced on election night, but his lead was whittled away by successive ballot counts until socialist city councilwoman Nithya Raman overtook him.'The city is a mess, and you're about to reward the arsonist who torched the place with four more years of destruction.'Rather than abandon his effort to save Los Angeles, Pratt released a fiery and defiant video Friday claiming to have damaging audio secretly recorded by a candidate's staffer."You think you could get rid of me that easily?" Pratt says in the video. "I didn't get in this for political power; I got in this to expose this corrupt machine, and nothing's changed," he added.He referred to Raman and incumbent Mayor Karen Bass as "morons" and "dumb and dumber," a reference to the popular movie. Pratt also claimed that many Los Angeles business owners and entrepreneurs told him they were leaving the city because of the inept government."That means the city has to cut services. More potholes, less firefighters, less police patrols, more criminals, more drug addicts terrorizing your communities," Pratt continued."You have no idea how bad things are about to get for this city. Look at this place already," he added. "This city is a mess, and you're about to reward the arsonist who torched the place with four more years of destruction?" he said.Bass will go up against Raman, who previously endorsed Bass and was counted as one of her allies. Some on the left see Raman as the manifestation of a party battle between centrist moderates and the far-left socialist fringe trying to take over."My goal hasn't changed. I've been laser-focused on stopping these commie animals, and I will stop them. If you think we uncovered a lot of fraud and evil in the campaign, just wait," he added. KTLA-TV published Pratt's video in its entirety on its YouTube channel.RELATED: Socialist mayoral candidate is outraged at encampment outside her LA home — but its not what it seems "So Karen, Nithya, ask yourself, is it possible that one of your employees may have a recording of you doing or saying something that would force you to resign in disgrace?" he asked. "I hope you sleep well at night over the next five months." The latest ballot count with about 99% of the votes had Bass at 34.3%, Raman at 29%, and Pratt at 25.5% of the votes. The difference between Pratt and Raman was about 30K votes."It's war!" Pratt said in the video. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!
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.
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.
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…
A judge has denied President Trump's request to pause a ruling requiring his name to be removed from the Kennedy Center.Why it matters: The request was a last-minute bid to avoid removing the president's name from the building and accompanying signage, as a previous judge ordered. The deadline for compliance is Friday.Editor's note: This is a breaking news story and will be updated.
