August 26, 2026 - Gov Brief Today

What Happened Today – August 25, 2026

August 26, 2026 by George Bounacos

Packed Kennedy Center Concert Hall audience watching the annual Messiah sing-along with orchestra, chorus, and Christmas trees on stage

A capacity crowd filled the Kennedy Center's Concert Hall for the 2023 Messiah sing-along, a Washington tradition since 1971 in the building Trump's lawyers now call "decrepit." (Photo: Dclemens1971, CC BY 4.0)

Donald Trump’s lawyers told a federal judge today that the Kennedy Center must carry his name or be torn down. A court ordered his name pried off the building in May after ruling the renaming illegal. His board voted it back on this month while he listened in by phone. Now the Justice Department calls … Read more