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Performing arts venue takes down references to a ‘Trump Kennedy Center’ in compliance with judge’s ruling The Kennedy Center has removed Trump’s name from its website after a US district judge’s order last month to remove the US president’s name from the performing arts venue. The removal of Trump’s name from the website on Monday … Read more

Micheal Barwagen is part of an all-Canadian crew at this World Cup, and says the new offside system makes his job easier in some ways The 2026 World Cup will be the first edition of the tournament to feature semi-automated offside technology, utilizing a dozen cameras to track player movement at a rate of 50 … Read more

As Americans mark the nation’s 250th anniversary this year, a survey of adults in the U.S. found that just 25% felt that the country stands above every other nation on the globe, while 44% think that the U.S. is just one of the greatest nations, among some others. A whopping 30% in the Associated Press-NORC … Read more

A vehicle carrying fireworks caught fire on a highway in Tennessee on Saturday, sparking a spectacular display. Footage from the scene on Interstate 75 near Ooltewah showed a huge cloud of sparks and rockets emerging from a trailer of a truck as a crowd watched from an overpass. The local volunteer fire department said in … Read more

Case argues Trump administration broke federal laws to accomodate ‘deeply corrupt’ commercial sporting event Donald Trump is throwing himself quite the 80th birthday party at the White House on Sunday. All he needs now is for a federal judge, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and a passing thunderstorm not to ruin it. The watchdog group Public … Read more

From high-altitude training to made to measure kits, teams have resorted to all manner of things to adapt to conditions at the tournament • Predict the winner | Daily podcast | Download our app The heat and the altitude worried everybody. The 1970 World Cup in Mexico would not be a normal one. So the … Read more

Suspect in custody at busy rail hub adjacent to Madison Square Garden one day before game three of NBA finals Six people were stabbed in a Sunday night attack at New York’s Penn Station, authorities said, with Amtrak police saying a person believed to be homeless was being held in custody as a result. The … Read more

“Words taken down.” That term of art may not mean much off Capitol Hill. But it’s a phrase which usually signals there’s a ruckus in the House of Representatives. The House witnessed one such melee recently. Lawmakers debated a war powers resolution for Lebanon. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., pushed the measure, hoping to restrict President … Read more

No one injured in incident, volunteer fire department says, and it is not known how truck caught fire Firefighters in Tennessee had to respond to an unexpectedly early Fourth of July scene after a truck caught fire on a major highway and its load of fireworks went off, triggering a spectacular display. Video of the … Read more

Veteran “60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley called CBS leadership as incompetent and inexperienced in an emotional interview after he was fired from the storied broadcast. Pelley alleges editor-in-chief Bari Weiss directed his team to make ICE protestors look more violent, saying, “There was a thumb on the scale for the president’s version of events that … Read more