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 …

Trump at 80 Works to Project Strength As Political Woes Mount  —  President Donald Trump is trying to project brute strength as he turns 80, but mounting political problems at home and abroad are tarnishing his self-styled image as an all-powerful leader.  —  Trump will celebrate becoming …

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.

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 …

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.”

Exclusive: ICE obtains local voter files  —  ICE investigators are going straight to local election officials for individual voter files, and they obtained them in two counties, according to emails shared with Axios. … - Trump said he believes millions of people, including non-citizens …

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 …

'They Don't Know How to Accept Him': Vivek Ramaswamy Navigates Identity in Ohio … 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 …

Trump's systemic attack on whistleblowers, explained by an expert  —  “The cost to democracy is a loss of accountability and oversight.”  —  ∙ Paid  —  This special Saturday edition of PN is made possible by paid subscribers.  Become one ⬇️

The Former GOP Operative Running a News Site for the ‘Politically Homeless’  —  Sarah Longwell's profitable startup, the Bulwark, approaches the news with a raw candor subscribers crave  —  Sarah Longwell recently screened a tape of a focus group of Catholic participants discussing President …

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.

Wages Are Falling.  Wealth Is Surging.  No Wonder Americans Are Unhappy.  —  As Elon Musk became the world's first trillionaire, workers are facing higher prices and fears of A.I.-driven job losses.  —  Two events from the past week help crystallize this strange, contradictory moment for the U.S. economy.

Even With U.S. Help, Little Oil Has Gone Through Strait of Hormuz  —  President Trump said more than 200 commercial vessels had safely traveled through the strait.  That's still far fewer than before the start of the war.  —  Even as the United States tries to negotiate an end to the war …

White students drop below 50% nationwide … - How schools, colleges and policymakers respond to this demographic shift will define opportunity for a generation. … - White students account for 48.8% of all Americans enrolled in public, private and homeschool systems as of October 2024 …

Saturday (6/13) News: “The world's first trillionaire is a killer”; “Iran Can Hold America Hostage in Either War or Peace”  —  “How America's Birthday Got Hijacked”; “Trump as Don Corleone”; “The Kennedy Center, Minus Trump”  —  Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines …

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.

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.

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.

Progressive Champions PAC is a GOP front  —  Progressive Champions PAC, a super PAC created last month, says on its website that its mission is to “elect bold, progressive candidates up and down the ballot.”  On Friday, according to FCC records, it booked nearly $400,000 worth …

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.

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.

Defense decoupling is no longer just a European fear — it's Trump's policy  —  Ending Europe's dependence on U.S. capabilities is one thing, denying allies the ability to defend themselves is an entirely different matter. … When news broke that the Pentagon wouldn't sell long-range Tomahawk missiles …