Kennedy Center Contract

Kennedy Center contract employee strips nude in protest video and is promptly fired

Kennedy Center contract employee Tavish Forsyth, troubled by President Trump's takeover of the national arts institution, strips naked and delivers a 35-minute protest poem suggesting that arts ...

Los Angeles Times - 1d

Kennedy Center actor discusses Trump's takeover

President Trump attended a board meeting at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., on Monday. The meeting came just over a month after Mr. Trump announced the termination of several board members ...

CBS News - 4d

Trump Kennedy Center board appointee pitches Mideast franchise, Potomac marina

One of President Trump's first-term appointees to the Kennedy Center board for the performing arts is floating big ideas to revamp the Washington, D.C., cultural mainstay, including a Jacqueline ...

The Hill - Mar. 10

Trump expected to attend Kennedy Center board meeting Monday

In February, Mr. Trump dissolved the Kennedy Center's board of directors and named himself chairman.

CBS News - 5d

'Hamilton' cancels Kennedy Center run after Trump takeover

'Hamilton' creator Lin-Manuel Miranda said he doesn't want the show to play at what he called the 'Trump Kennedy Center.'

Los Angeles Times - Mar. 5

Vance booed by audience while attending Kennedy Center performance

Vice President JD Vance received boos and jeers from the audience as he attended a performance at the Kennedy Center with his wife, second lady Usha Vance.

NBC News - Mar. 14

Trump to attend Kennedy Center board meeting after takeover

President Trump will visit the Kennedy Center on Monday for a tour and to attend a board meeting weeks after overhauling the cultural institution's leadership and installing himself as its ...

The Hill - 5d

Vance booed at Kennedy Center after Trump board takeover

Vice President Vance was met by a chorus of boos from audience members at the Kennedy Center while attending a National Symphony Orchestra performance late Thursday. The former Ohio senator ...

The Hill - Mar. 14

Breaking down NASA's SpaceX mission launch from Kennedy Space Center

NASA launched SpaceX's Crew-10 mission from the Kennedy Space Center. A Falcon-9 rocket is carrying four astronauts to the International Space Station where they will meet astronauts Suni Williams ...

CBS News - Mar. 14

Watch live: Trump visits Kennedy Center for tour, board meeting

President Trump is scheduled to visit the Kennedy Center on Monday, for a tour and his first board meeting since appointing himself the institution's chair. The president in early February ...

The Hill - 5d

Trump 'disappointed,' vows to 'fix' Kennedy Center after first tour

President Trump says he's "disappointed" with what he saw while touring the Kennedy Center for the first time after naming himself chair of the performing arts institution as part of an ...

The Hill - 5d

Trump Reimagines the Kennedy Center: Elvis, ‘Cats’ and Babe Ruth

A recording of President Trump’s private remarks at a Kennedy Center board meeting shows that he mused about bestowing honors on dead celebrities and people from outside the arts.

The New York Times - 4d

In first Kennedy Center visit, Trump slams 'Hamilton' and lauds other 'Broadway hits'

In his first visit to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts since taking over as chairman, President Trump said he never liked 'Hamilton' but expected other 'Broadway hits' to do quite ...

Los Angeles Times - 4d

Trump Had ‘Aptitude for Music’ as a Child, He Told Kennedy Center Board

The president, who recently took over Washington’s major performing arts center, reportedly said that he had not been encouraged to develop his musical talents.

The New York Times - 2d

Trump Had ‘Aptitude for Music’ as a Child, He Told Kennedy Center Board

The president, who recently took over Washington’s major performing arts center, reportedly said that he had not been encouraged to develop his musical talents.

The New York Times - 2d

Trump to meet with Kennedy Center board after purge

President Donald Trump said former President Joe Biden's preemptive pardons of members of the Jan. 6 committee are "void" because he signed them by autopen.

NBC News - 5d

Trump Seeks More Sway in Picking Kennedy Center Honorees

The president, who recently had himself installed as the center’s chairman, has called a meeting of its board to approve changes that would give him more input in the process.

The New York Times - 6d

Kennedy Links Measles Outbreak to Poor Diet and Health, Citing Fringe Theories

In a recent interview, the health secretary also suggested that the measles vaccine had harmed children in West Texas, center of an outbreak.

The New York Times - Mar. 11

Trump’s weird obsession with the arts is part of the authoritarian playbook | Charlotte Higgins

His focus on the Kennedy Center fits a pattern. From Augustus to Stalin, strongmen have sought cultural control for their own ends. In Washington, Donald Trump’s takeover of the Kennedy Center – ...

The Guardian - 2d

3/17: America Decides

WH denies ignoring court order blocking some deportations; Kennedy Center actor discusses Trump's takeover of theater

CBS News - 1d

Washington worried with Trump back in town: ‘The atmosphere is toxic here’

The Kennedy Center and BLM mural have been targeted, the newspaper is in freefall – and the Maga movement is gaining a foothold. It was an audience more accustomed to stifling a cough or resisting ...

The Guardian - 6d

A Skeptical G.O.P. Senator Makes His Peace With Kennedy

After voting to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as health secretary, Senator Bill Cassidy, a doctor and Republican of Louisiana, is embracing the “gestalt” of Kennedy’s measles response.

The New York Times - Mar. 6

Mizzou commit Anthony Kennedy Jr. relishes family joining him on visit

When Anthony Kennedy Jr. plotted his spring schedule, he saw an opportunity for his entire family to see the school he committed to four months ago. Kennedy traveled up to Missouri for his second ...

Yahoo Sports - 2d

Shielded Kennedy Files Hid Spies, Not Conspiracies

Newly unredacted documents reveal details about Cold War spycraft, not a second gunman on grassy knolls. The revelations have “nothing to do with who killed Kennedy,” one expert said.

The New York Times - 2d

Four astronauts launch on mission to International Space Station

A SpaceX rocket carrying NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi and Russian cosmonaut Kirill Peskov lifted off Kennedy Space Center. This mission will ...

NBC News - Mar. 14

'We should be higher' - fit-again Kennedy eyes late Killie surge

Matty Kennedy is determined to help Kilmarnock make a late surge for the top six after returning from an injury lay-off that was a lot longer than expected. Kennedy has made the most of Killie's ...

Yahoo Sports - Mar. 14

Latest batch of JFK assassination documents show Kennedy's distrust of the CIA

The newly released tranche of documents on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy includes a memo that for decades helped fuel speculation that the CIA was somehow involved in the killing ...

NBC News - 2d

Kennedy praises cellphone bans in schools, citing mix of science and misinformation

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took aim at a new target this week as part of his “Make America Healthy Again” agenda: cell phones in schools.

NBC News - 9h

Takeaways From the Kennedy Files

The big reveal from almost 64,000 documents was that there wasn’t much of a reveal at all.

The New York Times - 2d

Experts give Kennedy low marks as measles outbreak tests him

A worsening measles outbreak in West Texas has spread to two other states, providing Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. his first real test of responding to a major ...

The Hill - Mar. 13

Sources: Vikes to cut center Bradbury if no trade

The Vikings are planning to release center Garrett Bradbury unless a trade can be worked out, sources told ESPN's Adam Schefter.

ESPN - Mar. 13

Nvidia will build accelerated quantum computing research center

Nvidia said it is building a Boston-based research center to provide cutting-edge technologies to advance quantum computing.

VentureBeat - 4d

‘Ruined this place’: chorus of boos against JD Vance at Washington concert

Attendance of vice-president – who once disbelieved that people listened to classical music for pleasure – strikes sour note at Kennedy Center in light of Maga takeover. JD Vance, the US ...

The Guardian - Mar. 14

Senate Dems demand Kennedy disclose details of Mar-a-Lago meetings with drug execs

Three Democratic senators want answers from Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. about his private meetings with drugmakers alongside President Trump at his Mar-a-Lago club in ...

The Hill - Mar. 10

Alan Kennedy interview: When I left Newcastle for Liverpool it made the 10 o’clock news

When Alan Kennedy left Newcastle United it was with a heavy heart, but he got everything he wished for at Liverpool, eight years filled with joy and laden with silverware.

Yahoo Sports - Mar. 15