A federal appeals court declined to pause a judge’s order requiring Donald Trump’s name to be removed from the Kennedy Center facade. Officials said storms delayed the work past the Friday deadline but that removal was ongoing and expected to finish early Saturday.
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The Trump administration filed an appeal after a federal judge ordered President Trump’s name removed from the Kennedy Center. The board also voted to seek a stay of the ruling, which said only Congress can change the venue’s name.
A federal judge blocks the Kennedy Center's planned closure and orders removal of Trump's name, ruling the board acted unlawfully in renaming the institution without Congress. Trump responds by calling for Congress to take control of the center.
Wayne Shorter, an influential jazz innovator and tenor saxophonist, died Thursday at the age of 85. He was a foundational member of two seminal jazz groups, Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and the Miles Davis Quintet, and released more than 25 albums over eight decades. He won 11 Grammy Awards, was inducted into the DownBeat Jazz Hall of Fame, and was a recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master Award and the Polar Music Prize.