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A judge on Friday denied a request from the Kennedy Center to pause a ruling ordering President Donald Trump's name removed from building. Yet the Kennedy Center's leadership didn't abandon its legal efforts to keep Trump's name in place.

Opera Company Sues to Collect $17 Million From the Kennedy Center

12 June 2026 at 15:31
The Washington National Opera, which left the center amid the Trump administration’s takeover, says its efforts to retrieve its endowment and other assets have been blocked.

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The Kennedy Center and the Washington National Opera are no longer affiliated, but they remained entangled in a dispute over what assets the opera might still be owed.

Trump’s D.C. Renovations, HGTV Style

11 June 2026 at 16:09
President Trump brings a particular brand of reality TV-style renovations to the nation’s capital.

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After generations of slow and often staid improvements, the Trump era has already added a splashy flair to today’s Washington, including an Ultimate Fighting Championship octagon cage rising on the South Lawn, ready to host a fight to celebrate the nation’s 250th birthday.

Kennedy Center Appeals Order to Remove Trump’s Name

12 June 2026 at 01:47
One day before a deadline to take the president’s name off its facade, the arts institution appealed a federal judge’s ruling that also temporarily blocked it from closing.

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Judge Christopher R. Cooper ruled that only Congress had the power to alter the name of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, which was dedicated to the president in a 1964 law.

“Il miglior sesso della mia vita? Quello fatto con John F. Kennedy Jr.”: la rivelazione hot di Madonna

11 June 2026 at 08:35

Madonna, durante la promozione del suo prossimo disco di inediti “Confessions II”, in uscita il 3 luglio, ha regalato una rivelazione piccante su chi, secondo lei, è stato il miglior amante a letto. La risposta ha lasciato, quasi, tutti di stucco: John F. Kennedy Jr. La popstar si è confessata in un video con il drammaturgo Jeremy O. Harris, Bob The Drag Queen, la ballerina Ivy Mugler, lo stilista Raul Lopez e Marcello Gutierrez di ID.

Ma c’è una precisazione da fare. Infatti, come riporta Page Six, la domanda specifica è stata “con quali tra i tuoi ex amanti defunti hai fatto il miglior sesso”. E la scelta è caduta, appunto, su John F. Kennedy Jr., il figlio minore del presidente John F. Kennedy e della First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy. Il “principe ereditario” della cultura e della politica americana, è tragicamente scomparso all’età di 38 anni in un incidente aereo nel 1999.

Interrogata di recente su chi fosse il suo miglior amante di sempre, Madonna ha detto di essere pronta a stilare una classifica solo dei defunti. Ma tra tutti i suoi ex scomparsi, ha scelto John F. Kennedy Jr., il figlio minore del presidente John F. Kennedy e della First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy. Il “principe ereditario” della cultura e della politica americana, è tragicamente scomparso all’età di 38 anni in un incidente aereo nel 1999.

Lopez ha chiesto: “Chi è stato il tuo miglior amante?”. “Nominerò solo persone morte”, ha risposto la superstar spiazzando tutti, prima di coprirsi la bocca e sussurrare: “John Kennedy Jr.”, scatenando un coro di “Zitti!”. Lopez poi ha aggiunto: “Tutti dicono che aveva un cazzo pazzesco e che era un gran scopatore”. “Mmm hmm”, ha confermato Madonna, con un’inevitabile soddisfazione. “Sei la terza persona che sento dire una cosa del genere”, ha detto Lopez.

Madonna e il rampollo americano si sono frequentati per un brevissimo periodo alla fine degli Anni 80. “Madonna è stata solo una scappatella”, aveva detto uno degli amici intimi di Kennedy in “JFK Jr.: An Intimate Oral Biography” di RoseMarie Terenzio e Liz McNeil, pubblicato nel 2024. “Niente di più. A malapena una scappatella”.

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The Billionaire, the First Lady, and the Prince’s Wife: Inside the Onassis Love Triangle

11 June 2026 at 05:13
Onassis Kennedy sisters
Lee Radziwill and Aristotle Onassis. Credit: Wikipedia. Illustration: Greek Reporter

Long before Aristotle Onassis became the husband of America’s most famous First Lady, he was the center of a bitter, private tug-of-war between two sisters. The billionaire’s overlapping relationships with Jackie Kennedy and Lee Radziwill didn’t just make headlines—they ignited a lifelong sibling rivalry fueled by power, betrayal, and the constant struggle to outshine one another.

Caroline Lee Bouvier was the younger sister of Jacqueline Bouvier, who in 1961 became the first lady of the United States, as Mrs. John Kennedy.

The two sisters — daughters of a Wall Street stockbroker father and a socialite mother — were raised to look beautiful, have impeccable manners and to marry rich, prestigious men.

Jacqueline married John F. Kennedy in 1953, at age 24. Her sister Lee married the Polish nobleman Stanisław Albrecht Radziwiłł, of the princely House of Radziwill, in 1959.

After the assassination of President Kennedy in November 1963, the widow went on to marry Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis five years later, in 1968, after that becoming known popularly as Jackie O.

Books have been written about the rivalry between the two sisters — with chapters dedicated to an implied relationship between Lee and Onassis.

The Kennedy sisters’ rivalry and Onassis

The two girls adored their father, John Vernou Bouvier III, who was a stockbroker and ladies’ man who resembled Clark Gable. Bouvier always advised his daughters to “be the best.”

Lee and Jackie struggled to be their father’s very best daughter. Lee loved her older sister, but she found it hard to follow Jackie’s many accomplishments in school and in horse riding.

After Jackie married Kennedy and later became First Lady of the United States, she was regarded as one of the most beautiful and stylish women in the entire world.

Her younger sister was equally stylish and beautiful, yet to the world, she was just Jackie’s sister; needless to say, she was obscured by her sister’s shadow.

So she divorced her first husband and became Princess Lee Radziwill.

Princess Radziwill and Aristotle Onassis

When Princess Radziwill started an affair with Aristotle Onassis, the Greek tycoon was still involved with opera diva Maria Callas; Lee’s husband was indifferent and Jackie was still in the White House.

On August 22, 1963, Radziwill and Aristotle Onassis attended the opening of the Athens Hilton in Greece, invited by Nicky Hilton. Their appearance together at the luminous event generated the expected gossip.

Some speculated that Onassis wanted to be near Lee for her connection to the White House. John and his brother Robert Kennedy both disliked Onassis, who had been sued by the U.S. government in 1955 for removing from the U.S. a fleet of ships he had bought and promised to keep in the country.

In order to keep Lee away from Onassis, they asked her to accompany John on a presidential European tour to Great Britain, Italy, Germany, and Ireland because Jackie was seven months pregnant at the time.

When John Kennedy made his famous “Ich bin ein Berliner” speech in Berlin, he had his sister-in-law, not Jackie, at his side.

Despite that, however, Princess Radziwill returned to Greece and resumed her relationship with Onassis. When in late August of 1963 Jackie gave birth to Patrick, the newborn died 39 hours after being born.

Lee flew to Boston to attend her nephew’s funeral and to comfort her grieving sister. Concerned about Jackie, she urged Onassis to invite her aboard his legendary yacht, Christina.

Despite objections from the Kennedy family, Jackie went on a vacation on the yacht for four weeks, accompanied by her sister. The two sisters were left alone by Onassis for most of the time, resting and exchanging confidences.

When President Kennedy was assassinated in November of that year, Onassis stayed at the White House some days after, at Lee’s request, despite the Kennedy brothers’ distrust of him.

Onassis and the Kennedy sisters

In 1964 the young widow bought an apartment at 1040 Fifth Avenue in New York City and Robert Kennedy persuaded Stanislaw Radziwill to buy his wife a duplex at 969 Fifth Avenue in order to be near Jackie and so that her children could spend more time with their cousins.

Princess Radziwill then became friends with Truman Capote, who admired her style, elegance and femininity. He urged her to become a stage actress, and she embraced this new direction in her life with fervor.

She starred in a couple of plays and had options for film roles, but the reviews were not impressive. Nevertheless, she received great publicity and was on the cover of TIME magazine.

It was speculated at the time that all that was an effort to become more popular than her sister. Yet it was Jackie, again, who continued to gaining more attention as the grieving widow who was carrying the torch of the Kennedy legacy.

At the same time, Jackie Kennedy was relying heavily on her brother-in-law, Robert F. Kennedy, urging him to run for president in the 1968 election.

However, when Robert was assassinated in June 1968 after he and a crowd of his supporters had been celebrating his victory in the California Democratic presidential primary, Jackie fell into depression once more.

Furthermore, she feared for her own life and her children’s, convinced that there were people who hated the Kennedys and wanted to exterminate the family, and saying that she wanted out of the United States.

It was rather sudden when on October 20, 1968, Jacqueline Kennedy married her long-time friend Aristotle Onassis.

Understandably, that came as a blow to her sister. After all, Lee had been the first of the two to have an affair and fall in love with the Greek mogul. She reportedly wept when she heard the news.

Onassis called and asked her sister to be at her wedding. Although she was personally devastated, Lee dutifully served as matron of honor in the wedding.

Sixteen years later, Jackie dealt a final blow to her sister. At age 64 she was diagnosed with cancer and Lee rushed to comfort her ill sibling.

But when Jackie died, Lee found out that her sister had left her out of her will and the substantial holdings and cash her inheritors received. Maybe this was somehow because of Onassis, maybe not.

In any event, although the will included $500,000 trust funds for each of Radziwill’s two children, Tina and Anthony, there was nothing for her — not even one family memento.

¿Calor o privilegio? El problema de que los hombres se quiten la camiseta en cualquier parte

10 June 2026 at 04:30

Dice una célebre canción que cuando llega el calor, los chicos se enamoran. No hay datos que lo ratifiquen, pero lo que es seguro es que se quitan la camiseta. Y no solo en los paseos marítimos, sino en discotecas, gimnasios y festivales estivales. Barcelona ha aprobado la nueva Ordenanza de Convivencia, que es la norma del Ayuntamiento que establece qué acciones no se pueden realizar en la calle. El artículo 56.3 explica que queda totalmente “prohibido transitar o permanecer en los espacios públicos sin camiseta, camisa u otra prenda que cubra el torso, salvo que se esté practicando alguna actividad física o deportiva”.

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Un hombre hace deporte sin camiseta por Palma de Mallorca en el verano de 2025.

The order to remove Trump’s name from the Kennedy Center leaves the institution’s closure in limbo

Since his return to the White House, Donald Trump has put into practice that old maxim that it’s better to ask for forgiveness than for permission — except that the president of the United States never apologizes. The order issued on Friday by a federal judge in Washington to remove the Republican’s name from the Kennedy Center (KC), the capital’s major center of music and opera that Trump renamed without permission, has left the cultural institution in a state of uncertainty after more than a year of political meddling from the White House.

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A worker placed Trump’s name on the Kennedy Center’s façade in December.

Secrets, UFOs, and smokescreens: Why Washington is obsessed with extraterrestrials

Stephen Bassett, ufologist, political activist and lobbyist, in Washington, May 14.

Let’s start with the proven facts: Disclosure Day is the most anticipated film of the summer. Its director and screenwriter, Steven Spielberg, revealed details about its plot this week on one of Stephen Colbert’s final shows: he says it tells the story of the theft by officials, “committed to the truth,” of all information held by the government “about UFOs and extraterrestrial visits,” and the system’s desperate attempts to prevent it being revealed.

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Front pages of the 'Roswell Daily Record' for July 9 and 10, 1947.Emily Blunt, in a promotional still from Steven Spielberg's film ‘Disclosure Day.’Screening of the documentary ‘The Age of Disclosure’ at the Capitol for members of Congress.Dan Farah, director and producer of ‘The Age of Disclosure,’ alongside Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
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