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President of the Kennedy Center Richard Grenell poses on the red carpet for the 2025 Kennedy Center Honors at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington

Kennedy Center president rebukes performer who called off Christmas Eve show over addition of Trump’s name

By Aleena Fayaz, CNN (CNN) — Kennedy Center president Richard Grenell lambasted a performer’s decision to cancel an annual Christmas Eve jazz concert, following the addition of President Donald Trump’s name to the Washington, DC, arts venue. In a letter, which the Kennedy Center shared a copy of with CNN, Grenell sharply criticizes jazz artist

President Donald Trump speaks at his Mar-a-Lago club

Trump says US military struck ISIS terrorists in Nigeria

CNN By Kevin Liptak, Kara Fox, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump said Thursday he’d ordered a deadly strike on Islamic State terrorists in Nigeria, who he has accused of persecuting Christians in the country. In a post on social media, Trump said he’d directed a “powerful and deadly strike against ISIS Terrorist Scum in

Supreme Court’s National Guard decision could force new debate over how Trump could use Insurrection Act

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court’s decision Tuesday blocking President Donald Trump from sending the National Guard into American cities is likely to raise a politically fraught debate about the president’s willingness to invoke a 19th-century law to deploy the regular military on American soil instead. Throughout his campaign and in the

‘It’s perpetuated this news cycle’: Frustration mounts in Trump’s orbit about messaging on latest Epstein documents

By Adam Cancryn, CNN (CNN) — When the Justice Department released a first batch of Jeffrey Epstein files on Friday that included photographs of former President Bill Clinton, White House officials raced to amplify the importance of the new documents. But days later, amid a second trove that contains several references to President Donald Trump,

Jeffrey Epstein's former home on the island of Little St. James in the US Virgin Islands is seen here in November 2023.

Botched Epstein redactions trace back to Virgin Islands’ 2020 civil racketeering case against estate

By Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — A botched redaction in the Epstein files revealed that government attorneys once accused his lawyers of paying over $400,000 to “young female models and actresses” to cover up his criminal activities Social media users on Reddit and TikTok noticed in recent days that the redacted allegations could be uncovered by simply copying the