The Kennedy Center board of trustees convened for a board meeting to discuss plans to appeal a judge’s ruling — hoping to halt the ordered removal of President Trump’s name from the building and go forward with a planned closure for the storied arts center. https://cnn.it/4xtDkfC
It's been 40 years since the first baby was born via gestational surrogacy, and now a number of politicians are pushing to make the now-common practice illegal, some calling it "modern day slavery." CNN Senior Legal Analyst Elie Honig spoke with that first baby born via gestational surrogacy, Jill Brand, along with her mother and the doctor who oversaw the procedure about the medical breakthrough and its importance.

A group of Jeffrey Epstein survivors came out in opposition to Todd Blanche’s nomination as President Donald Trump’s permanent attorney general, citing his participation in secret White House meetings on how to contain the political fallout from the Epstein files.
President Donald Trump said he was canceling the strikes against Iran Thursday night that he'd previewed hours earlier because "final points" of an agreement between the two sides had been approved. CNN's Kristen Holmes reports. Read more: https://cnn.it/4uymnOp

President Donald Trump suggested Thursday that Iran's new supreme leader supports the agreement, in which he said Tehran has agreed "conceptually" to allow the US to secure nuclear materials and to stop pursuing a nuclear weapon. Follow live updates: https://cnn.it/4opneQ2

Secretary of State Marco Rubio extolled the virtues of the UFC as being intrinsically American, likening its creation to putting the first man on the moon.
The Trump administration has spent days heavily promoting the finished renovations at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, crediting the president with making Washington, DC, look “better than ever.” But a day after the reservoir was filled post-renovations, there was already quite a bit of algae visible from the water’s edge. https://cnn.it/4ot8Nuk

The Trump administration put up $750,000 to charter a private yacht to evacuate a single American citizen from a remote South Pacific island after she had been aboard a cruise ship at the center of a deadly hantavirus outbreak, a move that has further strained the State Department’s emergency budget. https://cnn.it/4xtjTna

Academy Award-winning actress Gwyneth Paltrow is facing backlash online after the Hollywood A-lister and lifestyle entrepreneur starred in an advertisement for a luxury Israeli real estate project. https://cnn.it/4e4UCYT
