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Kennedy Center board votes to add Trump's name to the facade of the performing arts building
The Kennedy Center board has voted to add President Donald Trump’s name to the facade of the performing arts building
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Kennedy Center board moves forward with a two-year closure to allow for renovations, AP sources say
The Kennedy Center will move forward with a two-year closure of the sprawling performing arts venue to allow for substantial renovation work, while some outdoor programming may continue
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Rolling Stone
Trump Is Spending Nearly $1 Billion in Taxpayer Money on Gaudy White House Renovations: Report
The White House is funneling millions into executive maintenance accounts without oversight or approval from Congress, The Washington Post reports
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Kennedy Center board set to vote on whether to move forward with closure
The Kennedy Center's board is set to meet to discuss future plans after a federal judge blocked a two-year closure for renovations
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Reuters
Factbox-After Trump's Turkey ruse, a look at past secret presidential trips
By Steve Holland WASHINGTON, Aug 12 (Reuters) - Closed aircraft window shades. A ballcap pulled low to hide the president's face. Seized cellphones. Strict warnings against leaks.
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Reuters
Trump asks US Supreme Court to allow White House ballroom construction to continue
By Mike Scarcella WASHINGTON, Aug 14 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's administration on Friday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to allow it to continue construction of his $400 million White House ballroom after an appeals court ruled the project lacked the necessary approval from Congress.
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Trump administration to impose tariffs on drone imports, White House says
By Kanishka Singh and Ismail Shakil WASHINGTON, Aug 13 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Thursday he will impose tariffs on imports of drones and their components, including from some key U.S. allies, with the Trump administration saying the country was "too reliant" on foreign sources of
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Reuters
'If I go, you go, right?': Traveling on the presidential plane - without Trump
WASHINGTON, Aug 12 (Reuters) - From the beginning, something didn't add up. During the closing hours of the NATO Leaders' Summit in Ankara in July, U.S.
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Reuters
Trump says his plane faced 'greater risk' in secret flight change
By Bo Erickson WASHINGTON, Aug 11 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he secretly switched planes in Turkey last month at the direction of the U.S. Secret Service, but that the plane he ultimately flew on was still more vulnerable than Air Force One.
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Trump says Secret Service and the military wanted him off Air Force One in Turkey due to threat
President Donald Trump says he slipped away from Air Force One after a trip last month in Turkey because the Secret Service and military wanted him on a “different plane” due to a threat
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Why the elaborate ruse Trump used in Turkey isn't like other secret presidential trips
President Donald Trump's secretive overseas trip out of Turkey in July has raised eyebrows because his advisers went to extraordinary lengths to conceal his whereabouts from the public
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Reuters
Democratic senators question Belgian diamond industry about ring given to Trump
By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON, Aug 11 (Reuters) - Two Democratic senators are demanding answers from two Belgian firms about an 18-carat gold ring encrusted with 321 diamonds that was given to U.S. President Donald Trump weeks before the U.S. exempted Europe's diamond industry from new tariffs.
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