Trump Kennedy Center to Close for Two-Year Renovations
President Donald Trump announced Sunday that the Trump Kennedy Center would close on July 4, 2026, for a two-year renovation period. Trump stated on Truth Social that the closure was "the fastest way to bring The Trump Kennedy Center to the highest level of success, beauty, and grandeur," with a grand reopening planned to surpass any previous iteration of the venue, according to Fox News. The closure will coincide with the nation's 250th anniversary.
In other news, five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, Adrian Conejo Arias, asylum seekers who were detained by federal agents, arrived back in Minneapolis on Sunday after a judge ordered their release, ABC News reported. "I'm happy to finally be going home," Conejo Arias, originally from Ecuador, told ABC News' John Quiñones. "Liam is very happy to be going back. He's going to see his mom and his brother again."
Meanwhile, NASA's Artemis mission continues to progress toward its goal of sending people back to the Moon to land on its south pole. According to CBS News, the Artemis program aims to land the first woman on the moon. Charlie Blackwell-Thompson is NASA's first female launch director. "We talk a lot about the moon, and I think the moon is phenomenal, and I can't wait to go back," she told 60 Minutes in 2021. No Americans have stepped foot on the moon's surface since 1972, the last year of NASA's Apollo lunar missions.
Also, following Jeffrey Epstein's jail cell suicide in August 2019, federal investigators sought to widen their aperture into who else might have helped Epstein commit his crimes, according to documents included in the Department of Justice's release Friday, ABC News reported. An 86-page "prosecution memo" from 2019 was among the new DOJ disclosures.
In marine news, a massive great white shark was detected by researchers off the Mississippi coast in January, Fox News reported. The 12-foot, nearly 1,000-pound female shark, known as "Ernst," was detected off the coast of Gulf Shores, Alabama, around the middle of January, after her satellite tag pinged. According to researchers, this location marked one of the westernmost points recorded for a great white shark in the Gulf and was considered unusual behavior. Ernst had been tagged in Nova Scotia and traveled thousands of miles down the East Coast before reaching the Gulf.
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