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LIVE: See Donald Trump's name come off the Kennedy Center as it happens — Today is the court-ordered deadline to remove President Donald Trump's name from the Kennedy Center. Trump's handpicked Kennedy Center board filed a last-mi...
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Steven Sloan / Associated Press:
Trump's name is still on the Kennedy Center, though officials say it will be down by noon — Workers began removing President Donald Trump's name from the facade of the Kennedy Center early Saturday, hours after a court-ordered Friday deadline to remove references to Trump from the building …
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Wall Street Journal:
Kennedy Center Misses Deadline, Wants More Time to Remove Trump's Name — The center asked for an extension just before midnight Friday, saying it expects to have the name removed by Saturday — The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts board of trustees blew past the court-ordered midnight deadline …
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CNN:
Trump's name must be removed from Kennedy Center tonight, appeals court rules — An appeals court is keeping intact a federal judge's ruling requiring the Kennedy Center to remove President Donald Trump's name from its building by the end of Friday. — The DC Circuit Court of Appeals rejected …
Jonathan Edwards / Washington Post:
Workers begin removing Trump's name from Kennedy Center
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New York Times:
Kennedy Center Begins Removing Trump's Name From Facade
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Josephine Walker / Axios:
Judge upholds order to remove Trump's name from Kennedy Center
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Yasmin Khorram / Politico:
Justice Department approves Paramount's acquisition of Warner Bros. … The DOJ did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Paramount did not respond to a request for comment. — The public scrutiny intensified after Netflix dropped its own bid for Warner Bros. following …
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New York Times:
Justice Dept. Clears Way for Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger — The $111 billion deal would unite two major movie studios and put CNN under the same roof as CBS News. — The Justice Department will not challenge Paramount's merger with Warner Bros. Discovery, clearing a major hurdle for the $111 billion deal, the agency said Friday.
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Brian Stelter / CNN:
Trump's DOJ approves Paramount-Warner Bros. merger, as potential state lawsuits loom
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Maxine Joselow / New York Times:
Judge Blocks National Parks From Removing ‘Negative’ Signs — The ruling accused the Trump administration of engaging in censorship by taking down materials at parks across the country. — A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked the National Park Service from removing or revising signs …
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Reuters:
Judge orders Trump officials to re-install signs and exhibits at national parks on topics like slavery and climate change — President Donald Trump last year directed the Interior Department to make changes to parks, monuments and memorials to address any “false revision of history.”
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Anthropic:
Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 — The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States …
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Kinnia Cheuk / Politico:
Algae resurfaces in reflecting pool after multimillion-dollar fixes … An Interior Department spokesperson said that the current algae is “residual” from supply lines that sat dormant for eight weeks during construction. The residue is part of the normal startup process, the spokesperson said.
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Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Trump Is Losing Ground With White Working-Class Voters on the Economy … Among blue-collar white voters, President Trump's approval rating on the cost of living stood at just 36 percent in a New York Times survey.Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times — The last time President Trump faced a midterm election …
Samuel Benson / Politico:
Vivek Ramaswamy Preaches the American Dream. Will White Christians Accept It? … This tiny Appalachian town, population 2,000, turned out several hundred for the county GOP's Lincoln Day dinner. The guest of honor, Vivek Ramaswamy, liked what he saw. — “We call it the American dream …
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Nathaniel Weixel / The Hill:
Screwworm spread tests US readiness after Trump staffing cuts — The U.S. spent decades driving the New World screwworm far into South America. But now the parasite has reemerged, and officials are working to beat it back yet again using many of the same tried-and-true methods as the government did in the 1950s.
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New York Times:
Trump Administration Says It Will Restart Asylum and Immigration Processing — The response came after a federal judge rebuked officials for failing to immediately comply with the order he issued last week. — The Trump administration said on Friday that it would comply with a court order …
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Aaron Parnas / MeidasTouch:
White House UFC Event Lighting Nearly Blinded Flight Crew on Approach to Reagan National — A commercial airline pilot that spoke to MeidasTouch this evening has filed aviation safety reports after powerful lighting used during the construction and testing of the UFC octagon …
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New York Times:
Elon Musk Becomes the World's First Trillionaire — With SpaceX shares soaring on their first day of trading, the world's richest person crossed another milestone — one with 13 digits. — Elon Musk became the world's first trillionaire on Friday. — The tech mogul reached that milestone …
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Gary Baum / The Hollywood Reporter:
A Peter Thiel-Backed Tribunal Is Putting Journalists on Trial. I'm Its First Target — The billionaire has reteamed with the legal strategist who helped him bring down Gawker to start an AI-powered appeals court for the rich and aggrieved. — For many journalists, blowback is just part of the business.
Julia Jacobs / New York Times:
Opera Company Sues to Collect $17 Million From the Kennedy Center — The Washington National Opera, which left the center amid the Trump administration's takeover, says its efforts to retrieve its endowment and other assets have been blocked. — The Washington National Opera …
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Steven Erlanger / New York Times:
With a Deal Seemingly Close, the U.S. Faces an Iran More Willing to Withstand Pressure — The war has produced regime change, but Iran's new leaders are more willing to take risks and believe they have already absorbed the worst that America and Israel can deliver.
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Anna Griffin / New York Times:
Independent Cascadia? Greater Idaho? Disunited States Look Toward Divorce — At a moment when even the prospects of dialogue seem far-fetched, movements to redraw state lines to link like-minded regions, or even to secede from the union, are gaining strength. — The revolution begins with a poetry reading.
Camilo Montoya-Galvez / CBS News:
“It rips my heart apart”: U.S. military veteran calls on ICE to release wife — Add CBS News on Google — An American citizen who served in the U.S. Army and the Texas National Guard for roughly 20 years is desperately urging federal immigration officials to release his wife, who is facing deportation to her native Honduras.
Politico:
Trump lawyers: No collusion with Trump administration to create ‘anti-weaponization’ fund … Trump's lawyers invoked a federal court rule that allows plaintiffs in a case to drop it early in the litigation without explanation or substantive involvement by the judge.
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New York Times:
Two Dan Sullivans? Alaska G.O.P. Suggests Kicking One Off the Ballot in Senate Race — The lieutenant governor and the top elections official, both Republicans, are investigating whether the challenger coordinated with a Democrat to confuse voters. — A political battle in Alaska …
NBC News:
At least 1 dead, 10 injured in Texas shooting; suspect dead after standoff — The scene in Midland, Texas, was quickly secured and the area cleared, the city said in a Facebook post. … The gunman who barricaded himself in a Midland, Texas, building on Friday after a shooting that killed …
NBC News:
He took his wife, a Trump fan, to the president's hotel in Doral. Instead he was detained by ICE. — A honeymoon plan ended in an arrest, months of detention and over $80,000 in debt for Venezuelan immigrant Bryan Rojas, who's married to a U.S. citizen. — Bryan José Rojas Galofre wanted …
Annie Linskey / Wall Street Journal:
At 80, Trump Is Everywhere and Showing Signs of Age — WASHINGTON—President Trump closed his eyes and appeared to nod off while seated in a suite this week at an NBA Finals game in New York City as cameras caught him snacking on french fries and pizza. He returned to the White House after 2 a.m.
TC Sottek / The Verge:
The world's first trillionaire is a killer — Elon Musk's empire of wealth is built on suffering. … Elon Musk's SpaceX IPO will probably make him the richest person to ever walk the planet. And while his mountain of horrible personal conduct could fill multiple books …
Ian Millhiser / Vox:
The Supreme Court invented a special legal rule solely to screw Planned Parenthood — About a year ago, the Supreme Court handed down a baffling decision in Medina v. Planned Parenthood (2025). In Medina, South Carolina committed an obvious violation of federal Medicaid law …
Stephanie Saul / New York Times:
Judge Dismisses Republican Group's Case Against the University of Florida — A campus group the university banned after accusations of antisemitic behavior failed to prove it had its First Amendment rights violated, the court ruled. — A campus Republican group at the University …
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Reuters:
Exclusive: UAE to unlock billions of dollars for Iran, sources say — The United Arab Emirates has agreed to unlock billions of dollars for Iran, four sources said, in a tactical shift after weeks of Iranian attacks on the wealthy Gulf Arab state during the U.S.-Israeli war with the Islamic Republic.
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