Steven Sloan / Associated Press:
Trump's name is still on the Kennedy Center, though officials say it will be down by noon  —  Workers began removing President Donald Trump's name from the facade of the Kennedy Center early Saturday, hours after a court-ordered Friday deadline to remove references to Trump from the building …

Wall Street Journal:
Kennedy Center Misses Deadline, Wants More Time to Remove Trump's Name  —  The center asked for an extension just before midnight Friday, saying it expects to have the name removed by Saturday  —  The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts board of trustees blew past the court-ordered midnight deadline …

Steven Erlanger / New York Times:
With a Deal Seemingly Close, the U.S. Faces an Iran More Willing to Withstand Pressure  —  The war has produced regime change, but Iran's new leaders are more willing to take risks and believe they have already absorbed the worst that America and Israel can deliver.

Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Trump Is Losing Ground With White Working-Class Voters on the Economy … Among blue-collar white voters, President Trump's approval rating on the cost of living stood at just 36 percent in a New York Times survey.Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times  —  The last time President Trump faced a midterm election …

Anna Griffin / New York Times:
Independent Cascadia?  Greater Idaho?  Disunited States Look Toward Divorce  —  At a moment when even the prospects of dialogue seem far-fetched, movements to redraw state lines to link like-minded regions, or even to secede from the union, are gaining strength.  —  The revolution begins with a poetry reading.

New York Times:
Justice Dept. Clears Way for Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger  —  The $111 billion deal would unite two major movie studios and put CNN under the same roof as CBS News.  —  The Justice Department will not challenge Paramount's merger with Warner Bros. Discovery, clearing a major hurdle for the $111 billion deal, the agency said Friday.

Stephanie Saul / New York Times:
Judge Dismisses Republican Group's Case Against the University of Florida  —  A campus group the university banned after accusations of antisemitic behavior failed to prove it had its First Amendment rights violated, the court ruled.  —  A campus Republican group at the University …

Politico:
Trump lawyers: No collusion with Trump administration to create ‘anti-weaponization’ fund … Trump's lawyers invoked a federal court rule that allows plaintiffs in a case to drop it early in the litigation without explanation or substantive involvement by the judge.

Camilo Montoya-Galvez / CBS News:
“It rips my heart apart”: U.S. military veteran calls on ICE to release wife  —  Add CBS News on Google  —  An American citizen who served in the U.S. Army and the Texas National Guard for roughly 20 years is desperately urging federal immigration officials to release his wife, who is facing deportation to her native Honduras.

NBC News:
Foreign surveillance program set to expire after Democrats reject short-term renewal  —  Democrats object to Trump's appointment of Bill Pulte, who has no national security experience, as acting national intelligence chief.  Trump said today he'll nominate Jay Clayton to the post in a long-term capacity.

Anthropic:
Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5  —  The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States …

CNN:
Trump's name must be removed from Kennedy Center tonight, appeals court rules  —  An appeals court is keeping intact a federal judge's ruling requiring the Kennedy Center to remove President Donald Trump's name from its building by the end of Friday.  —  The DC Circuit Court of Appeals rejected …

Maxine Joselow / New York Times:
Judge Blocks National Parks From Removing ‘Negative’ Signs  —  The ruling accused the Trump administration of engaging in censorship by taking down materials at parks across the country.  —  A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked the National Park Service from removing or revising signs …

Phil Stewart / Reuters:
Exclusive: US forces shoot down Iranian attack drones, source says  —  U.S. forces shot down multiple Iranian one-way attack drones heading toward the Strait of Hormuz, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Friday, in the latest military flare-up even as Washington and Tehran cite progress in peace talks.

Beth Mole / Ars Technica:
RFK Jr. melts down over NYT report, admits he blacklists reporters … Anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. posted a long, enraged social media response to a New York Times article reporting that health department insiders think Kennedy is disengaged from the work of his sprawling agency.

Annie Linskey / Wall Street Journal:
At 80, Trump Is Everywhere and Showing Signs of Age  —  WASHINGTON—President Trump closed his eyes and appeared to nod off while seated in a suite this week at an NBA Finals game in New York City as cameras caught him snacking on french fries and pizza.  He returned to the White House after 2 a.m.

Reuters:
Trump says U.S. military carried out a strike on leader of Tren de Aragua  —  U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said the U.S. had carried out a lethal strike on Hector Rusthenford Guerrero Flores, also known as Nino Guerrero, the leader of Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua.

New York Times:
Trump Administration Says It Will Restart Asylum and Immigration Processing  —  The response came after a federal judge rebuked officials for failing to immediately comply with the order he issued last week.  —  The Trump administration said on Friday that it would comply with a court order …

Reuters:
Judge orders Trump officials to re-install signs and exhibits at national parks on topics like slavery and climate change  —  President Donald Trump last year directed the Interior Department to make changes to parks, monuments and memorials to address any “false revision of history.”

New York Post:
Texas Dem bragged about getting career criminal bandmate ‘out of jail’ who went on to sexually assault 8-year-old  —  See more of our coverage in your search results.  —  Add The New York Post on Google  —  WASHINGTON — Latin Grammy winner and Texas House Democratic candidate Bobby Pulido once bragged …