WASHINGTON (AP) — On Friday afternoon, the Kennedy Center, best known for its theater, opera and ballet, will be the unlikely center of the sports world when the matchups for next year’s World Cup are ...

The Kennedy Center said Friday that it is being paid $7.4 million to hold the draw for the World Cup at the performing arts venue on Dec. 5. FIFA is donating $2.4 million to the Kennedy Center as it ...

Washington — Kennedy Center president Ric Grenell and Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island are clashing over the center's spending and operations records, after Trump allies were ...

Kennedy Center President Richard Grenell torched Senate Democrats for opening an investigation into the national cultural center, writing to Rhode Island Democrat Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse that his ...

WASHINGTON — A former Kennedy Center employee will lead a protest on the steps of the nation's premier performing arts venue on Saturday, pushing back against what she describes as the politicization ...

Under Richard Grenell, the performing arts center has given steep discounts to CPAC and FIFA, signed contracts with administration associates and spent lavishly on friends. By Katie Benner When the ...

Senate Democrats have begun to investigate Kennedy Center deals with Trump allies. After new leadership took over the iconic arts venue, Democrats on the Senate’s Environment and Public Works ...

FIFA will not pay a rental fee when it takes over much of the Kennedy Center later this month for the 2026 World Cup draw, according to a copy of the venue use agreement obtained by The Washington ...

But Grenell’s critics seem to have amnesia. The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts was political long before he arrived. In fact, under the Biden administration and the former Kennedy ...