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'Unsafe, Decrepit Structure': DOJ Claims Kennedy Center Could Be Demolished Over Trump Legal Battle

The Kennedy Center's future is uncertain as a legal dispute over recognising President Trump threatens renovation funding, potentially leading to the venue's deterioration and eventual demolition

International Business Times UK

Kennedy Center tells court it won't try to restore Trump's name to the building before Sept. 8

The Kennedy Center has told a federal court it won't try to restore Donald Trump's name to the building facade before at least Sept. 8

The Independent UK

UT-Austin overhauling core classes but hasn’t detailed how new center relates to the courses

UT-Austin proposes big changes to how future students meet graduation requirements as questions persist about a new Center for Humanities.

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Kennedy Center board votes again to renovate building and inscribe Trump’s name on it – report

The center has until next week to present plan to judge who had blocked earlier rehab and name change

The Guardian - US

Kennedy Center ordered to pay $250K to musician who canceled his appearance in protest of Donald Trump

Jazz musician Chuck Redd was sued by the performing arts center after backing out of a concert, but a judge later dismissed the case

The Independent UK

An Israeli professor lost a prestigious US job offer after speaking out on Gaza. Now the university is paying him $250,000

The University of Minnesota withdrew an offer for Raz Segal to lead its Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies after an organized campaign against his hiring

The Guardian - US

Trump rushed Kennedy Center renovations for Fifa peace prize ceremony, whistleblowers say

Letter from Democratic senator outlines more no-bid contracts and second botched reflecting pool redo

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D.C. Circuit Denies Stay of Order Removing Trump's Name from Kennedy Center

From D.C. Circuit Judges Patricia Millett, Robert Wilkins, and Gregory Katsas today in Beatty v. Trump: On May 29, 2026,… The post D.C. Circuit Denies Stay of Order Removing Trump's Name from Kennedy Center appeared first on Reason.com.

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US court says Trump name must stay off Kennedy Center during appeal

Trump administration requested pause on lower court’s ruling after Trump’s name was removed from facade in June

The Guardian - US

Trump under pressure to back up claim of sabotage at reflecting pool

President’s promise of photo and video evidence of vandalism at Washington landmark yet to be fulfilled

The Guardian - US

A judge demanded Trump’s name come down from the Kennedy Center. Now, he wants to know why tarps block the view

Lawyers fighting to keep the president’s name off the building say the venue is waging ‘a petty act of defiance’ that is ‘willfully sabotaging’ the facade to appeal to Trump’s ego

The Independent UK

Kennedy Center says it isn't required to reschedule shows after judge blocks 2-year closure

The Kennedy Center's management isn't committing to new shows or staff expansion, even as it considers options short of a full two-year closure that a federal judge blocked last month

The Independent UK

A Federal Judge Just Dismantled Trump’s Desperate Eleventh-Hour Bid to Keep His Name on the Kennedy Center

The Trump administration said the "millions" raised through the center would have to be returned if the name changed.

The Mary Sue

MS NOW Viewers Trash 'Weak Baby Narcissist' Trump Over Hidden Kennedy Center Scandal

Workers used tarpaulins to shield the overnight removal of Donald Trump's name from the Kennedy Center, prompting MS NOW viewers to deride the former president as a 'weak baby narcissist.'

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Donald Trump's name removed from Kennedy Center

US President Donald Trump's name has been removed from the facade of the Kennedy Center.

Axios

Trump's name must be removed from Kennedy Center, judge orders

"Congress gave the Kennedy Center its name, and only Congress can change it," the judge wrote in his ruling.

The Guardian - US

Judge dismisses Kennedy Center suit against musician who canceled

Lawyer for Chuck Redd, who pulled out after Trump renamed center, called case ‘political retribution’

The Independent UK

Kennedy Center lawsuit against musician who canceled Christmas Eve show tossed by judge

The longtime Kennedy Center musician said he was ‘very pleased with the judge's ruling’

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Washington archdiocese removes exorcist after UFO comments spark controversy

A controversy within the Catholic Church emerged after Monsignor Stephen Rossetti, a longtime exorcist in the Archdiocese of Washington, suggested in an online video that many UFO sightings could be connected to demonic activity. Cardinal Robert McElroy subsequently removed Rossetti from his role as an archdiocesan exorcist and ended the…

The Independent UK

Washington archbishop removes priest as exorcist after UFO comments

‘It's my personal belief that probably many if not most of these UFO sightings are in fact demons’

Reason

Trump Broke the Law When He Slapped His Name on the Kennedy Center, a Federal Judge Says

The decision is a modest but welcome victory for the rule of law.

The Mary Sue

Trump’s Attempt to Rename the Kennedy Center Hit a Wall in Court but Congress Could Still Hand Him the Keys

A federal judge ruled that the president’s name must come off the Kennedy Center’s facade within two weeks.

Latin Times

Colombia Voters Head to the Polls for Presidential Elections: Cepeda, de la Espriella, and Valencia face off

Colombia's 2026 presidential election is underway. Over 41 million voters choose between Cepeda, de la Espriella, and Valencia. Results expected by 7 p.m. local time.

The Economic Times

Donald Trump blasts federal judge as 'an anti Trump Hater', blames wife as Kennedy Center renovation faces legal setback

U.S. President Donald Trump fumed about the Friday decision from U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper who also ordered Trump’s name removed from the center.

The Independent UK

Trump says judge who ruled against him on Kennedy Center ‘should be brought up on charges’

Trump accused the judge of ruling against him ‘because his wife probably told him to do so’ and went on to accuse him of having a conflict of interest because of his wife's politics

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