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Kennedy Center to close for construction for 2 years, Trump says
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts will close for approximately two years for “Construction, Revitalization, and Complete Rebuilding,” President Trump announced on Sunday.
Complete closure of the performing arts center in Washington, D.C., will start on July 4, Mr. Trump said in a social media post. The decision to fully close the center over a partial construction came after a year of review by experts, the president said.
“The temporary closure will produce a much faster and higher quality result!,” Mr. Trump wrote on Truth Social. “This important decision, based on input from many Highly Respected Experts, will take a tired, broken, and dilapidated Center, one that has been in bad condition, both financially and structurally for many years, and turn it into a World Class Bastion of Arts, Music, and Entertainment, far better than it has ever been before.”
The announcement comes as several high-profile performers scheduled to appear at the U.S. capital’s leading performing arts venue announced they were pulling out following Mr. Trump’s takeover. On Thursday, Mr. Trump hosted a premiere of the Melania Trump documentary “Melania” at the Kennedy Center.
It was unclear what the renovations would entail and what exactly Mr. Trump meant by a “Complete Rebuilding.” The president last year had much of the East Wing of the White House demolished to make way for a new ballroom, the future of which is currently the subject of an ongoing lawsuit seeking to halt its construction.
Staffers at the Kennedy Center told CBS News they learned of renovation plans on Sunday evening from Mr. Trump’s social media post.
“I don’t know what any of it means,” said one senior staffer, granted anonymity because they’re not authorized to speak publicly about Kennedy Center operations.
Mr. Trump on Sunday said the center’s closure is subject to approval by Kennedy Center board members. The president ousted a group of Kennedy Center board members last February and installed close allies as replacements, who then voted to name him chair.
In December, the center’s board voted to rename the organization as the Trump-Kennedy Center, and the president’s name was added to the exterior of the building. The move drew outrage from Democratic lawmakers, who argued the name can’t be changed without legislation because the center was created by Congress.
CBS News has reached out to the Kennedy Center for comment.
Entertainment
Why Barry Keoghan is stepping back from the spotlight?
It’s not all red carpet and applause for Barry Keoghan – and he’s not pretending otherwise.
The 33-year-old actor got candid during a recent chat on SiriusXM’s The Morning Mash Up, revealing that the internet’s darker corners are starting to take a real toll.
“I think I removed myself from online, but I’m still a curious human being that wants to go on and, if I attend an event or if I go somewhere, you want to see how it was received. And it’s not nice,” Barry said in a clip shared by Elite Daily.
“There’s a lot of hate online. It’s a lot of abuse of how I look.”
And it’s not just a passing annoyance – it’s changing how he lives.
“And I say this being absolute pure and honest to you. It’s becoming a problem,” he admitted.
“So yeah, I don’t have to hide away because I am hiding away. I don’t have to go to places because I actually don’t go to places because of these things. But when that starts leaking into your art, it becomes a problem because then you don’t even want to be on screen anymore.”
That last part hits hard – because when an actor starts avoiding the screen, we all lose.
But the most gut-punch moment? It’s not even about him.
“It is disappointing for the fans, but it’s also disappointing that my little boy has to read all of this stuff when he gets older,” Barry shared.
Entertainment
Justin Timberlake’s Hamptons DWI arrest video has been released
Justin Timberlake’s attempt to keep his DWI arrest footage out of the public eye has failed and the video is now out, showing the singer stumbling during sobriety tests and telling officers, “These are, like, hard tests.”
Timberlake, 45, had filed a lawsuit against the Long Island town of Sag Harbor earlier this month in a bid to prevent the footage from being released.
That effort was unsuccessful.
The video shows the SexyBack singer being pulled over in his grey 2025 BMW before being put through a series of field sobriety tests by officers.
He appeared confused and unsteady throughout. When asked to walk a straight line, he stumbled a couple of times. As the pressure of the situation mounted, he told the officers, “My heart’s racing.”
He was polite throughout the encounter, responding to officers with “yes, sir”, but declined to take a breathalyser test on multiple occasions.
A female companion arrived at the scene after he was handcuffed and placed in the back of a squad car, offering to drive his vehicle away.
Timberlake was arrested in June 2024 and charged with one count of driving while intoxicated, along with two traffic citations for failing to stop at a stop sign and failing to keep right.
According to a source who spoke to Page Six at the time, he had been at the historic American Hotel in Sag Harbor for dinner with friends before being pulled over, with police reportedly stationed outside.
Friends on the scene pleaded with officers to let him go.
One detail that emerged at the time painted a particularly awkward picture of how the night unfolded.
“The cop didn’t know who he was at first,” a source told Page Six. “Justin said under his breath, ‘This is going to ruin the tour.’ The cop replied, ‘What tour?’ Justin said, ‘The world tour.'”
His mugshot, taken after he was brought into custody, showed visibly bloodshot eyes.
Timberlake subsequently took a plea deal, with his DWI charge reduced to a traffic violation rather than a criminal offence.
Entertainment
‘General Hospital’ star Jacob Young makes major revelation
Jacob Young has spoken publicly for the first time about a seven-year opioid addiction that began with a routine dental prescription and spiralled in secret, hidden even from his own wife.
The General Hospital actor, 46, made the revelation on the Imperfectly Perfect Podcast, tracing the roots of his substance use back to a difficult childhood and describing how addiction eventually took hold of a significant portion of his adult life.
“I went through seven years of my life, wasted on opioids, still trying to figure out what was wrong with me, but I didn’t know,” he said.
“It was just needing to numb… It was the only thing that made me feel normal.”
The opioids came into his life through an unexpected route.
After he and his wife Christen Steward had bought a house and settled in together, Young underwent dental surgery and was prescribed Vicodin.
Apart from having his wisdom teeth out as a teenager, he had never taken opioids before. What followed was years of dependency that he kept entirely to himself.
Young’s history with substances had begun much earlier, though.
He started smoking marijuana around the age of 14, and it wasn’t until his mid-20s, when fame from roles on All My Children, General Hospital and The Bold and the Beautiful brought him into the orbit of New York City’s nightlife, that drinking and cocaine use entered the picture.
By the time he married, he had largely left those behind. The opioids were a different story.
He eventually sat his wife down and told her the truth, a conversation he credits as the turning point. From there, he sought counselling and medical support to work through his dependency.
Looking back, Young connects his substance use to a childhood defined by instability.
His parents divorced and he was shuffled between them in a way that left him unsettled. The family relied on welfare and food stamps, and Young grew up alongside three older siblings in what he described as a humble upbringing.
In his adolescence, he went to live with his father, which felt stable, until his stepmother, who had become like a second mother to him, died by suicide.
His relationship with his father broke down in the aftermath, and a difficult relationship with his mother at the time left him without a reliable parental figure during some of his most formative years.
“I was going through stuff that I didn’t realise that I was ever going to go through, emotionally,” he said, a quiet acknowledgement of just how much had been buried, long before the prescriptions began.
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