US President Donald Trump at the Kennedy Center on August 13, 2025 in Washington, DC ; Sylvester Stallone attends the Fontainebleau Grand Opening Celebration on December 13, 2023 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

For more than 47 years, a D.C.-area family has made the medals for the Kennedy Center Honors — gold-plated medallions outfitted with satin ribbons in rainbow colors and presented to luminaries ...

Donald Trump has announced his selection of honorees for the first Kennedy Center Honors of his second term, and he has somehow restrained himself from picking Dean Cain, Hannibal Lecter, or the movie ...

The Kennedy Center Honors are the nation’s top performing-arts-achievement awards and their celebration the highlight of the capital’s cultural calendar. Yet the honorees are typically announced in ...

The president said “wokesters” in the performing arts wouldn’t be honored. “A ‘wokester’ sounds like a car your great-grandfather drove after the war,” Meyers said. By Trish Bendix Welcome to Late ...

“It’s not the heat, it’s the humidity” is not just a time-worn cliche − this summer, it’s been the reality. Air masses that have been just “sitting and festering” have created record-high dew points ...

President Donald Trump has said that he plans to host the 2025 Kennedy Center Honors on Dec. 7, 2025 Kayla Bartkowski/Bloomberg via Getty ; Jon Kopaloff/Getty President Donald Trump has said that he ...

Honorees include Sylvester Stallone, Michael Crawford, Gloria Gaynor, KISS and George Strait In February 2025, Trump purged the Kennedy Center board of 18 members and was elected chairman by the new ...