By Dareh Gregorian, Gary Grumbach and Owen Hayes President Donald Trump’s handpicked Kennedy Center board voted Tuesday to immediately shutter the performing arts center, citing its “dire” financial and structural shape. The vote came shortly after a federal judge in Washington rejected the board’s latest effort to add Trump’s name to the building’s facade. The Trump administration appealed the judge’s ruling
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Howard University has officially launched a national search for its next president, beginning a process that university leaders say will include extensive input from students, faculty, staff and alumni. The Howard University Board of Trustees announced Monday that it has formally started the search for the university’s 19th president. Howard has retained executive search and
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By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court in the last week has delivered major blows to President Donald Trump and his fellow Republicans that suggest the justices will not be receptive to last-minute efforts to change election rules heading into the midterms. With control of Congress at stake, the court on Monday night blocked Trump’s plan to
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By Dennis Romero A helicopter affiliated with NBC Los Angeles crashed while it was covering a fatal bus collision Tuesday evening, killing the photojournalist and pilot on board and one person on the ground, the station and officials said. The aircraft crashed in a parking lot at or near a self-storage facility in the community of Chatsworth, which
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