CBS News reports: President Trump is set to visit the Kennedy Center Wednesday where he’s expected to announce this year’s Kennedy Center honorees after working to overhaul the D.C. cultural institution in recent months. The Kennedy Center previewed the announcement Tuesday, writing in a post on X: “A country music icon, an Englishman, a New York City Rock band, a …

From the Family Research Council’s website: For decades, leftists and progressives have used terms like “dictator,” “fascist,” and “Nazi” to deride, smear, and cow their political opponents into submission — and, for decades, it worked. It is, perhaps, little surprise that President Donald Trump has been called a “dictator” after announcing his federal takeover of Washington, D.C. Rep. Eric Swalwell …

The New Jersey Advance reports: A Jersey City pastor who resigned in June has been charged with sexually assaulting two children while he was working as a youth pastor at an embattled Colorado church over two decades ago. Robert Anthony “Tony” Langston, 60, who served as lead pastor at Tapestry Church in Jersey City, is accused of assaulting two members …

The Associated Press reports: The group Stand Up Alaska has organized rallies on Thursday and Friday in the state, where sentiment toward Russia has cooled since Putin invaded Ukraine in 2022. The Anchorage Assembly voted unanimously to suspend its three-decade-long sister city relationship with Magadan, Russia, and the Juneau Assembly sent its sister city of Vladivostock a letter expressing concern. …

“Notice the DC mayor did not take the race bait there. Maybe it’s the reality of the fact that she realizes she has no legal way to stop the president, has to try to work with him. Or maybe there’s a more troubling reason why she’s so muted. She might be worried about you learning that, you guessed it, DEI …

Axios reports: The number of New York City office workers actually going to those offices is now higher than pre-pandemic levels — the first time that’s happened since COVID hit, according to a new analysis. It’s an I-told-you-so moment for those who rejected the once-dire predictions that the pandemic would change New York — and the way people work — …

The Independent reports: South Park has doubled down on its mockery of Kristi Noem, the United States Secretary of Homeland Security, in a scene that wasn’t aired on Comedy Central. In the second episode of the outspoken animated show’s 27th season, Noem and the immigration enforcement agency ICE are brutally mocked throughout. Now, in an unaired post-credits scene released online …

“Very unfair media is at work on my meeting with Putin. Constantly quoting fired losers and really dumb people like John Bolton, who just said that, even though the meeting is on American soil, ‘Putin has already won.’ What’s that all about? We are winning on EVERYTHING. The Fake News is working overtime (No tax on overtime!). If I got …

The Washington Post reports: The Kennedy Center has seriously considered several names to receive this year’s honors, including country music legend George Strait, glam-metal icons Kiss and the English actor Michael Crawford, according to several current and former employees with knowledge of the center’s plans who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss them …

Reuters reports: The U.S. on Tuesday rejected the “Net-Zero Framework” proposal by the International Maritime Organization, which is aimed at reducing global greenhouse gas emissions from the international shipping sector, and threatened measures against countries that support it. The announcement, made in a joint statement by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Energy Secretary Chris Wright and …

The Washington Post reports: National Guard troops have begun deploying on the streets of the nation’s capital, with Humvees and troops spotted along the National Mall, a day after President Donald Trump federalized the local police department and issued officers a far-reaching mandate to “do whatever the hell they want” to curb crime. Yet it remained unclear what new directives, …

“When you come off the interstate and into Washington, D.C., I hadn’t been there probably since I was a young man, and I was just shocked at the-the filth, the people going to the bathroom on the streets, the needles, the crime. And the people that are the victims are the people that live there. I like the mayor. She’s …

Newsweek reports: U.S. layoffs surged in July to their highest level since the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic. In July, there were 62,075 job cuts announced, according to a report by outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. That’s a 29 percent jump from June and 140 percent higher than the 25,885 announced in July 2024. The July figure is …

Mediaite reports: Vice President JD Vance’s vacation in the English Cotswolds was protested by residents on Tuesday, who carried altered images of the vice president’s face and signs that read, “GO AWAY.” At a demonstration organized by the “Stop Trump Coalition,” protesters could be seen carrying signs that read, “GO AWAY,” “SOD OFF!” “WAR CRIMINAL,” “JD Vance Claps When the …

The Associated Press reports: A random shooting outside a Target store in Texas began when a gunman killed an employee collecting shopping carts then a man and his 4-year-old granddaughter, sparking a chaotic hour of stolen cars and crashes that ended with him arrested naked holding a Bible, police said Tuesday. Ethan Nieneker, 32, is charged with two counts of …

Government Executive reports: The independence of federal statistical agencies is “nonsense,” the head of the Commerce Department and one of President Trump’s chief economic emissaries told employees on Tuesday, who said they need to focus only on obtaining “the right answer.” The comments, coming on the heels of President Trump firing the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics after …

Time Magazine reports: The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) will hold the first-ever professional mixed-martial arts fight at the White House during America’s 250th birthday celebration next year. UFC CEO Dana White confirmed on Tuesday that the fight would take place on July 4, 2026, the 250th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. “It is definitely going to …

“The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ decision to wind down its mRNA vaccine development activities marks a necessary pivot in how we steward public health innovations in vaccines. The right path requires us to consider the inherent strengths and weaknesses of a technology as well as any alternatives, along with public attitudes and experience with the technology. “The …

The Daily Beast reports: A rebel Republican congressman has invited multiple victims of Jeffrey Epstein to a press conference at the U.S. Capitol as part of a bipartisan push to force the release of legal files linked to the late pedophile. Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, a thorn in Donald Trump’s side for his frequent objections to the president’s spending …

“I think what’s scary to the Dems is not the military. It’s the fact that they know this is going to work, and that it’s already working. Just like deportation, what are they going to do? And if it works there, think about all the other cities — Chicago, Baltimore, D.C. — all of a sudden you could see a …