Judge denies last-minute attempt to stop removal of Trump’s name from Kennedy Center

2026-06-12T14:20:00-0400 / CBS News

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Updated on: June 12, 2026 / 2:25 PM EDT / CBS News

Washington — A federal judge on Friday denied a last-minute attempt by the Trump administration to stop the removal of President Trump’s name from the Kennedy Center, following an earlier order that set a deadline of Friday for the name to come down.

U.S. District Court Judge Christopher Cooper determined last month that the president’s name was illegally added to The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and ordered that it be removed. The Trump administration said it would appeal that ruling on Thursday. On Friday, Cooper denied a request for a stay of his permanent injunction pending appeal, meaning his order won’t be paused and the deadline stands.

Cooper laid out his reasoning for denying the request for a stay in a brief order.

“Most notably, for the detailed reasons laid out in the Court’s initial ruling, Defendants have not ‘made a strong showing that [they] are likely to succeed on the merits’ of any appeal,” the judge wrote. “Nor have Defendants demonstrated that they ‘will be irreparably injured absent a stay.’”

Workers were seen erecting scaffolding outside the Kennedy Center under its name on Friday.

Workers stand on scaffolding outside the Kennedy Center on June 12, 2026, ahead of a deadline to remove President Trump’s name from the building. Alex WROBLEWSKI /AFP via Getty Images

The center, run by a Trump-aligned board of trustees, voted in December to add the president’s name to the institution, rebranding it as the Trump-Kennedy Center. The center is the premier arts venue in the nation’s capital and was established by Congress as a memorial to President John F. Kennedy.

A Democratic member of Congress who sits on the board challenged the move in court. In May, Cooper ruled that only Congress could approve a name change to the institution and set a deadline of June 12 for complying with his order.

Earlier this month, CBS News reported that lawyers for the center were instructing staff to immediately begin the process of switching the name of the facility back to its original title. The instructions were laid out in a memo sent by the center’s general counsel and obtained by CBS News.

Cooper’s original order also blocked plans by the administration and trustees to close the center for nearly two years for major renovations.

The Kennedy Center’s website has already removed the president’s name from much of its online material.

Mr. Trump made moves to put his mark on the center soon after his return to office last year, removing Democratic-appointed members of the board and installing allies and top administration officials instead. The president and his allies also sought to make changes to the types of performances at the institution.

Melissa Quinn and Katrina Kaufman contributed to this report.

EXCLUSIVE: ICE nabs multiple convicted killers in single day amid nationwide immigration sweep

June 12, 2026 3:30pm EDT / Fox News

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FIRST ON FOX: Federal immigration agents arrested several convicted killers, a rapist and multiple drug traffickers in a single day Thursday, underscoring the Trump administration’s push to target what Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials call the “worst of the worst” criminal illegal immigrants living in the U.S.

“Yesterday, [Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)] arrested multiple murderers, rapists, and drug traffickers from our communities,” Homeland Security Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis told Fox News Digital.

“Nearly 70% of ICE arrests are of illegal aliens charged or convicted of a crime in the U.S.,” she said. “Every day, our officers are putting their lives on the line to remove criminals from our communities.”

According to DHS, Thursday’s arrests include:

DHS ARRESTS 5 ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS CONVICTED OF VIOLENT CRIMES INCLUDING MANSLAUGHTER, CHILD ASSAULT

Roque Cinto-Mejia, of Mexico, is convicted of manslaughter.(DHS)

Roque Cinto-Mejia

Roque Cinto-Mejia, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, is convicted of manslaughter in Brooklyn, New York.

Alejandro De Jesus-De La Cruz, of Mexico, is convicted of voluntary manslaughter.(DHS)

Alejandro De Jesus-De La Cruz

Alejandro De Jesus-De La Cruz, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, is convicted of voluntary manslaughter in San Bernardino, California.

Francisco Antonio Morales-Acencio, of Guatemala, is convicted of rape and assault and battery of a family member.(DHS)

Francisco Antonio Morales-Acencio

Francisco Antonio Morales-Acencio, an illegal immigrant from Guatemala, is convicted of rape, assault and battery of a family member in Fairfax, Virginia.

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Heriberto Mendoza-Pineda, of Mexico, is convicted of trafficking meth.(DHS)

Heriberto Mendoza-Pineda

Heriberto Mendoza-Pineda, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, is convicted of trafficking methamphetamine in Gwinnett County, Georgia.

Manuel Soto, of the Dominican Republic, is convicted of multiple drug charges.(DHS)

Manuel Soto

Manuel Soto, an illegal immigrant from the Dominican Republic, was twice convicted of drug possession and possession of cocaine with intent to distribute in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Ohio voting rights group facing criminal fraud investigation, sources say

2026-06-12T14:59:34-0400 / CBS News

By Katrina Kaufman
June 12, 2026 / 2:59 PM EDT / CBS News

Washington— The FBI executed a search warrant at the office of an Ohio-based community grassroots group known for its voter registration work as part of an ongoing fraud-related investigation, multiple sources familiar with the matter told CBS News.

The target of the search, the Ohio Organizing Collaborative, is a civil rights organization that works to register voters and advocates for criminal and economic justice reform.

Around the same time the search warrant was executed on Thursday, federal agents also started showing up at the homes of employees and volunteers to interview them as part of the probe, said Prentiss Haney, a board member of the Ohio Organizing Collaborative who was authorized to discuss the matter for the group.

The search, and the attempts to interview people affiliated with the group, were reported earlier by MS Now.

Haney said that the questions from the agents appeared to be focused on voter fraud.

Haney called the law enforcement operation an “assault” against civil rights groups that work to engage people in the democratic process.

He said there were “over 125 agents” who went to the homes of volunteers, civil rights leaders, community leaders and staffers.

“They were following people in their cars. Following kids to school. They were knocking on doors. Calling the phone. Demanding to come into houses to get phones without warrants,” he said.

A DOJ official declined to discuss the details of the Ohio case, saying the search warrant affidavit remains under seal.

“Search warrants are authorized by a judge and anything said by any organization or others in the media is unfounded speculation, as the target of any investigation is not privy to the search warrant affidavit until after the indictment,” the official said in a statement.

The questions from the agents about voter fraud come at a time when the Justice Department has more broadly sought to investigate cases of voter fraud across the United States in the lead-up to the midterm elections.

Earlier this year, for instance, Minnesota’s secretary of state received grand jury subpoenas seeking a limited number of individual voter records as part of a federal investigation into whether noncitizens are registered to vote or have unlawfully cast ballots.

The FBI also recently attempted to interview the director of elections in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin.

Meanwhile in California, prosecutors last month announced criminal charges against a Los Angeles-area woman who was accused of paying homeless people to register to vote.

The Ohio Organizing Collaborative over the years has received donations from progressive groups such as New Venture Fund and the Tides Foundation, according to tax records filed with the IRS. Both of those groups have received scrutiny in the past from Republicans over financial mismanagement allegations.

In 2017, a paid canvasser for Ohio Organizing Collaborative pleaded guilty for involvement in a fraudulent voter registration scheme.

Another donor to the group has been the Voter Registration Project, which was previously accused by the conservative-leaning Capital Research Center of violating its nonprofit status by leading an effort to register millions of voters who helped Joe Biden win in 2020, tax records show. The project has denied any impropriety, though the allegations prompted Republican lawmakers in Michigan to request an investigation by the Justice Department in 2025 “to determine the extent of their involvement in illegal electioneering activities and fraudulent voter registration efforts.”

受中东战争冲击，英国经济4月环比萎缩0.1%。图为从英国首都伦敦120号花园的观景台上眺望的金融城摩天大楼。 （路透社）

英国今年强劲的开局在4月戛然而止，中东危机的影响开始渗透到经济之中。

彭博社引述英国国家统计局星期五（6月12月）公布的数据说，继前两个月增长之后，4月份国内生产总值(GDP)下降了0.1%。这一数据与经济师的预估中值相符。

这是英国经济2025年8月以来首次出现月度萎缩。新华社报道，4月份，英国经济陷入萎缩主要由中东战事引发的能源价格上涨和通胀预期上升所致。从行业看，4月英国服务业环比萎缩0.2%，抵消了制造业和建筑业的增长。建筑业环比增长0.1%，制造业环比持平。

英国国家统计局此前公布数据显示，今年第一季度，英国经济环比增长0.6%。

由于伊朗战争引发能源成本和借贷利率上升，企业和消费者都在努力应对这一局面，因此，这些数据预示着第二季度经济较为疲软。

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IMF警告中东冲突削弱英国经济增长前景 中东战火波及英国就业市场 首季失业率升至5%

国际货币基金组织5月发布报告说，中东局势正在削弱英国经济短期增长前景，能源价格上涨导致消费支出减少、生产成本增加，同时金融环境趋紧且不确定性增加，预计今年英国经济增长率将降至1.0%。

印度的卡车运输公司等商业用户一直从国有企业的零售网点购买柴油，这里的价格低于批发供应点，导致部分地区的加油站出现燃料短缺。 （路透社）

由于中东战争导致全球供应链中断，印度已禁止商业燃料买家从零售加油站购买汽油和柴油，并限制每日柴油购买量，以防止当地出现燃料短缺。

路透社报道，根据星期四（6月11日）晚间发布的政府命令，零售加油站经销商被要求每天向每位顾客或每辆车出售的柴油不得超过200升，并且买家不得转售燃料。

印度的卡车运输公司等商业用户一直从国有企业的零售网点购买柴油，这里的价格低于批发供应点，导致部分地区的加油站出现燃料短缺。

政府说，需要采取限制措施，以确保汽油和柴油的公平供应，防止燃料被挪用和囤积，并以合理的价格维持不间断的燃料供应。

柴油约占印度燃料需求的40%，但工业用户购买每升柴油的价格比零售价高出40卢比。

政府称，上个月，私营零售商的柴油销量下降了58%，而国有企业的销量大幅飙升，部分地区的增幅超过30%。

“这旨在限制大宗消费者从零售网点购买柴油，从而避免他们滥用价格套利。”

命令指出，受美伊冲突影响，地缘政治紧张局势已使全球石油供应链、运输物流和产品供应面临压力，因此必须采取审慎的管理和节约措施。

命令也指出，这些措施最长可达90天。

Stowaway with 524 pounds of cocaine and a gun found on barge off Puerto Rico, Coast Guard says

June 12, 2026 / 9:55 AM EDT / CBS News

A stowaway with more than 500 pounds of cocaine and a gun was found on board a barge off the coast of Puerto Rico, the U.S. Coast Guard said Thursday, marking the second time this year that authorities detained a stowaway holding a huge stash of drugs in the same harbor.

Crewmembers from two Coast Guard Cutters joined forces with a Homeland Security task force to apprehend the stowaway after boarding the Crimson Clover barge in the San Juan Harbor on Tuesday, officials said in a news release. During the operation, officers located a stowaway who was in possession of a firearm and nine bales of cocaine weighing approximately 237.75 kilograms, or about 524 pounds.

The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Isaac Mayo later met with law enforcement partners at Coast Guard Base San Juan, and took custody of the alleged drug smuggler, the weapon and the cocaine, which was estimated to have a street value of $4.8 million. Authorities have not identified the suspect.

The Coast Guard released images of the barge, the alleged drugs and officers hauling the bales onto the shore.

A stowaway with more than 500 pounds of cocaine and a gun was found on board a barge off the coast of Puerto Rico, the U.S. Coast Guard said Thursday. U.S. Coast Guard

“A collective pool of experience and available assets led to a safe boarding and a discovery of cocaine aboard the barge, which further deters smuggling organizations from exploiting incoming commercial vessels to conduct human and drug trafficking activities within our area of responsibility,” Lt. Cmdr. Ross Markham said in a statement.

The arrest and seizure comes amid ramped up efforts by the U.S. to target drug trafficking and human smuggling in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean. In addition to routine Coast Guard interceptions of narcotics on the open seas, the Trump administration has continued a monthslong campaign of military strikes on alleged drug-running boats, killing more than 200 people.

In February, a stowaway was arrested after he was allegedly found floating in a Puerto Rican harbor with 789 pounds of cocaine.The Coast Guard recovered the suspect from the water, as well as 10 bales of contraband wrapped in brown bags.

The month after that, authorities seized cocaine worth an estimated $12 million from a boat off the island’s north coast.

5月15日，伊朗外交部长阿巴斯·阿拉格齐抵达伊朗驻印度新德里大使馆，准备举行新闻发布会。 （路透社）

伊朗外长阿拉格齐说，旨在解决美以对伊战争的“伊斯兰堡谅解备忘录”已“从未如此接近”达成，但他敦促媒体在备忘录最终定稿前不要对其内容进行猜测。

路透社引述阿拉格齐星期五（6月12日）的话说，伊朗将在适当时候向公众公布所有细节，他称这是德黑兰负责任和透明的做法。

白宫官员：伊朗同意终止核计划

一名白宫官员则告诉法新社，伊朗已同意根据与美国达成的协议终止其核计划并销毁核材料。与此同时，双方对协议的描述却截然不同。

这名高级政府官员说，德黑兰还同意开放霍尔木兹海峡，并且在履行其在“基于绩效的协议”下的承诺之前，不会收到任何冻结的资金。

Goblin shark seen alive in natural habitat for the first time: “The most iconic of all the deep-sea sharks”

2026-06-12T10:16:00-0400 / CBS News

By Mark Osborne

Updated on: June 12, 2026 / 10:18 AM EDT / CBS News

Marine biologist Alan Jamieson had given up on seeing a goblin shark in its underwater home. After all, they live thousands of feet underwater in total darkness and since being discovered over 100 years ago, had only been observed when caught by fishermen and brought to the surface.

But that changed two years ago when exploring the Pacific Ocean’s Tonga Trench — the second-deepest point on Earth — with a remote, baited camera.

“The Goblin Shark is one of these deep-sea charismatic animals that I never thought we’d see alive, and then to do so was amazing, but to then learn that colleagues in Hawai’i also saw one was just incredible,” Jamieson, the founding director at Minderoo-UWA Deep-Sea Research Center, said in a press release accompanying a study released this week on not one, but two sightings of the elusive deep-sea creature.

Researchers with the Minderoo-UWA Deep-Sea Research Center found video of a deep-sea goblin shark in its natural environment in 2024 in the Pacific Ocean’s Tonga Trench. Minderoo-University of Western Australia Deep-Sea Research Center and Inkfish

The study, published in the Journal of Fish Biology, details two observations of the goblin shark on camera.

The first came in 2019, but no one even knew it at the time. In speaking with colleagues at the Deep-Sea Animal Research Center, study author Aaron Judah learned a 2019 Ocean Exploration Trust expedition on the M/V Nautilus — the underwater exploration ship owned by Robert Ballard, who found the wreck of the Titanic — might have seen a goblin shark on camera.

In looking back through the video, Judah hit the jackpot. The shark was spotted when exploring extremely remote areas of the Pacific near locations like Jarvis Island and the Palmyra Atoll.

“Seeing the most iconic of all the deep-sea sharks alive and looking healthy in its natural habitat is a unique honour,” Judah, a researcher in the Department of Oceanography at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa, said in a statement of the two discoveries. “I was also very surprised about how deep this species was found. The observation from the slope of the Tonga Trench is nearly 700 meters deeper than this species was known to live.”

In other words, the discoveries in 2019 and 2024 were not only enlightening for being the first time seeing the shark on camera, but also in helping scientists learn more about the animal’s natural habitat.

This image shows the head of a goblin shark with its jaws extended. Dianne Bray/Museum Victoria

The geographic range of where the goblin shark roamed expanded considerably thanks to the mid-Pacific sighting in 2019, while the 2024 find extended how deep lamniform sharks could be found by 108 meters, according to the study.

The goblin shark’s name comes from its unique, and slightly terrifying, appearance. The shark, which is about 12 feet long on average, has a pink, squishy body and comically large nose hiding a set of razor-sharp teeth underneath. Goblin sharks are one of a species known as “living fossils,” since they are the only one left living in their family (Mitsukurinidae), which goes back 125 million years, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

“It is really important that we still perform natural history work,” Judah said in a statement. “New discoveries like this demonstrate that there is still so much to explore in our deep ocean home. Given the newly-expanded geographic range of the goblin shark, this species can be included in regional management and a nationʻs biodiversity list, whereas, beforehand we didn’t know it was even there!”

湖南山西安全事故后多名官员落马 分析：预防性制度建设是关键

2026年6月12日 23:09 / 联合早报

山西省发生严重煤矿瓦斯爆炸事故后，一周内有七名官员接连落马。图为爆炸第二天的5月23日，医疗、抢险救援车辆集结抢救被困人员。 （中新社）

湖南上月发生烟花厂爆炸致37人死亡后， 官方星期四（6月11日）公布三名应急管理系统官员被查，使当地一周內共有六名官员落马。上月同样发生严重煤矿爆炸事故的山西，一周内也有七名官员接连落马。

分析认为，发生安全事故后问责官员符合一贯程序，此次问责速度快，范围也比较广，但关键是后续能否总结经验教训，并通过制度性、法律性手段，预防事故再度发生。

中共湖南省纪委监委公号“三湘风纪” 星期四公布三名官员涉严重违纪违法，正接受调查，包括湖南省应急管理厅安全生产应急救援指挥中心副主任雷敏、长沙市应急管理局原副局长钟才发，以及浏阳市应急管理局局长杨海。

中共长沙市纪委监委公号“清廉长沙” 6月5日也公布了事发地浏阳市的三名官员被查，分别是原副市长李翔、市公安局原巡逻警察大队副大队长高承见以及官渡镇平安法治和应急管理办公室专职副主任刘永祺。

长沙市浏阳市官渡镇华盛烟花制造燃放有限公司上月4日发生特别重大爆炸事故，造成至少37人死亡。官方5月8日后未再更新伤亡数字。

同一个月内，中国煤炭大省山西长治市沁源县一煤矿5月22日发生瓦斯爆炸事故，造成至少82人遇难，为中国近17年来最严重矿难。

据中国媒体报道，涉事煤矿近五年内多次被监管部门处罚，却仍继续生产。地方当局最初在通报死亡人数时，也被质疑存在谎报情况，一度引发舆情升温。

中共山西省纪委监委星期三（6月10日）晚通报，山西省应急管理厅副厅长张和平涉上述煤矿事故，正接受调查。他也是目前山西通报的七名落马官员中行政级别最高的一个。

此外，事发地沁源县“一把手”赵永进6月2日被查，当地三名应急系统官员6月7日被查，副县长魏小祥和能源局原一级主任科员李军则在星期四被查。

分析：问责范围广速度快 但缺乏制度建设

美国智库亚洲协会政策研究所中国分析中心研究助理王晟宇告诉《联合早报》，相比过往事故，此次山西的调查速度很快，随后湖南跟上，“应当是山西给湖南打了个样板”。

旅居台湾的时事评论人徐全受访时说，把安全生产和地方职能部门的“乌纱帽”挂钩，是基本的行政管理逻辑。从纵向垂直的权力角度看，“能问责的都问责一圈了，范围是比较大的”，但这未必完全符合民众的最高期待。

他指出，中国民众更关注的可能是今后如何预防这类灾难事故，比如企业安全生产标准、环保标准，如何提升安全透明度等这类关乎更多家庭、生命健康的细节。

一名不愿具名的舆情研究学者受访时说，灾难事故发生后，调查官员的做法既符合中共党纪和中国法律，也能迅速满足网民快意恩仇的道德诉求，但问题是事件往往就此划下句号，缺乏后续在法律和制度层面的建设，导致类似事故重复发生。

徐全说，中国经济还未完全走出后疫情时期的低谷，地方政府更依赖税收大户企业带动经济增长，对企业的监管可能本着“只要不出事就好”的态度。

王晟宇也说，作为中国烟花爆竹生产和出口的重要城市，浏阳在与其他地区竞争的过程中，可能一定程度上放松了安全生产监管要求，埋下事故隐患。

徐全认为，政府与企业之间的利益关系需要进一步规范化，才能从根本上消除安全隐患。“否则，即使更换一批官员，类似问题仍可能反复出现。”

淡滨尼组屋邻居纠纷 44岁男子被指用塑料桶砸邻居头部

2026年6月12日 23:26 / 联合早报

44岁男子被指拿塑料桶砸邻居，目前正协助警方调查。 （Instagram截图）

称男女邻居自2022年起就上门骂粗话骚扰，男子近期出门时与对方争吵，结果被男邻居用塑料桶砸头三次，最终报警处理。

这起纠纷发生在6月5日晚上10时25分左右，地点是淡滨尼45街第492F座组屋。

署名“itsmalcolmmak”的用户上周末在个人TikTok账户上载两段视频，第一段可见身穿粉红色T恤的他，6月5日晚上10时许在走廊上相信和人发生争执后，被对方拿起一个塑料桶往他头上砸了三下，直到塑料桶破裂。另一视频则显示，一名女子上门到他的单位前爆粗口。

这名用户指，自己曾向当局反映情况，但却没有任何改变。他接受网络媒体慈母舰访问时称，5日当天晚上，他和妻子正准备出门吃晚餐，结果在电梯口遇见这对邻居男女。

他指女邻居瞪妻子，对两人说：“向前走，安静点”（Move along and keep quiet）之后，双方大声争吵了起来，男邻居一度还试图殴打他，他因此报警。过程被他单位外的闭路电视拍下。

岂料，当晚较迟时候，男邻居还用水壶到他门口朝电眼倒水，过后再拿一桶水泼向他的大门，双方发生争执后，还用塑料桶砸向他的头部。

男子单位外的闭路电视拍到女邻居到他门口前爆粗口。（Instagram截图）

新加坡警察部队受询时证实，当局在5日晚上10时25分左右接到报案，指上述组屋发生纠纷。无人在事故中受伤。

“一名44岁男子因蓄意伤人和蓄意骚扰罪名，目前正协助调查。有关调查正在进行中。”

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