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Byline: Travis M. Andrews, Janay Kingsberry The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., was evacuated late Thursday morning after a bomb threat. A spokesperson confirmed [...]

Byline: Travis M. Andrews, Janay Kingsberry, Samantha Chery Kennedy Center staff were cleared to return to the building hours after a bomb threat caused them to evacuate late Thursday morning. [...]

Byline: Travis M. Andrews, Jada Yuan, Shane O'Neill, Lili Loofbourow Like every episode of 'Saturday Night Live' since 1975, Sunday's three-hour anniversary special was a confusing, celebrity-packed, occasionally funny grab-bag. [...]

Byline: Manuel Roig-Franzia, Travis M. Andrews In September 2021, Sean Spicer - the former Trump administration press secretary and peripatetic cable news opinionator - received a politely threatening email from [...]

Byline: Travis M. Andrews, Manuel Roig-Franzia, Janay Kingsberry, Matt Viser The Kennedy Center board of trustees voted Wednesday afternoon to install President Donald Trump as chairman of the board, cementing [...]

Byline: Travis M. Andrews, Manuel Roig-Franzia, Janay Kingsberry The Kennedy Center board of trustees voted Wednesday afternoon to install President Donald Trump as chairman of the board, cementing the plan [...]

Byline: Travis M. Andrews, Manuel Roig-Franzia, Matt Viser President Donald Trump named former acting director of national intelligence Richard Grenell as the interim executive director of the Kennedy Center in [...]

Byline: Travis M. Andrews President Donald Trump on Friday announced plans to overhaul the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, writing that he had decided to ǣimmediately terminate multiple individuals [...]

Byline: Travis M. Andrews CHARLESTON, S.C. - Grady Hendrix doesn't do boring. Maybe it's a symptom of some undiscovered disease, maybe it's encoded in his DNA. He is absolutely allergic [...]

Byline: Travis M. Andrews Deborah F. Rutter will step down as president of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts at the end of 2025 after steering the [...]

Byline: Travis M. Andrews The Kennedy Center announced Thursday that Conan O'Brien is the 26th recipient of its Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. The 61-year-old writer, podcaster and former [...]

Byline: Travis M. Andrews King Arthur pursued the Holy Grail. Indiana Jones scoured for precious artifacts. Harold and Kumar sought White Castle burgers. Adam Schmersal hunts for a different type [...]

Byline: Travis M. Andrews Amid a snowy week and the start of a new Congress, Washington's elite are gathering to honor a man the city never fully embraced: former president [...]

Byline: Travis M. Andrews At first, there was the smile, the standout teeth, the earthiness of the peanut-farming, the celebrity friends and the countercultural cool. On his way to the [...]

Byline: Travis M. Andrews 'Meet the Parents' is not a holiday movie, but it feels like a holiday movie - A fish out of water! Nice home on Long Island! [...]

Byline: Travis M. Andrews BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - The movies Robert Eggers makes are deeply unpleasant. Sure, so are most horror movies. But the director's films don't merely include the [...]

Byline: Travis M. Andrews It was a musical evening at the Kennedy Center Honors - so musical, it turned out, that even Robert De Niro played piano. Before anyone was [...]

Byline: Travis M. Andrews GREEN BANK, W.Va. - Brandon Barrett arrived here two weeks ago, sick but hopeful, like dozens before him. Just a few years back, he could dead [...]

Byline: Travis M. Andrews MARLINTON, W.Va. - The rules are simple. Prepare a meal featuring an animal normally found dead on the side of a highway. For example: snake, armadillo, [...]

Byline: Travis M. Andrews The conservative man tends toward the savory: plates piled high with burgers, fries and grease-glazed pizza. The liberal is a sprinkles man. He'll dip not only [...]

Byline: Travis M. Andrews, Anne Branigin, Shayna Jacobs A grand jury indicted rapper and music mogul Sean âDiddyâ Combs on charges of racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking, according to a [...]

Byline: Anne Branigin, Travis M. Andrews, Herb Scribner Sean âDiddyâ Combs was arrested on a federal indictment in New York on Monday, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the [...]

Byline: Anne Branigin, Travis M. Andrews, Herb Scribner Hip-hop impresario Sean âDiddyâ Combs was indicted by a grand jury on charges of racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking for crimes as [...]

Byline: Travis M. Andrews, Jonathan Edwards, Samantha Chery Everyone, take a deep breath. Beyoncé did not appear at the Democratic National Convention. That sentence, which is also true of millions [...]

Byline: Travis M. Andrews If it had been Pepsi or Diet Coke or Sprite or Barq's or Dr Pepper or even Cheerwine, no one would have batted an eye. If [...]

Byline: Travis M. Andrews NEW ORLEANS - On a sweltering afternoon in early June, in the swampy lake at the center of a Six Flags amusement park, a few feet [...]

Byline: Travis M. Andrews NEW YORK Samuel Zimmerman wants to scare the living hell out of you. Ask him for a movie recommendation, and you might find your stomach turning [...]

Byline: Travis M. Andrews Too much summer sun? In the mood for a little darkness? If you're in need of a good fright, look no further. We called up Samuel [...]

Byline: Travis M. Andrews Bob Newhart was too gentle for Hollywood. His breakneck ascendancy in the 1960s violates every unwritten rule about fame, fortune and success. He didn't test audience's [...]

Byline: Travis M. Andrews Three artists, a band and a building walk into the Kennedy Center. Well, that's probably not how it'll happen. But in an unusual twist, storied Harlem [...]

Byline: Maura Judkis, Travis M. Andrews TRAVIS: Oh, great. After six months of panda-less bliss, the National Zoo is getting two more of these giant raccoon galoots - named Bao [...]

Byline: Travis M. Andrews Jerry Seinfeld has been everywhere, talking to just about everyone, on late-night shows and morning ones, on podcasts and in newspapers - proving that when you [...]

Byline: Travis M. Andrews What do you get when you combine a 1970s music legend, a 1990s sitcom star and a global pandemic? Michael McDonald's memoir, obviously. It seems a [...]

Byline: Travis M. Andrews, Anne Branigin, Helena Andrews-Dyer, Samantha Chery He was a modern-day Jay Gatsby. Thatâs how media outlets often referred to Diddy - previously known as Puff Daddy, [...]

Byline: Travis M. Andrews Comedian Kevin Hart has it all - movie stardom, millions and millions of dollars - except for maybe one thing. ǣThe triumph of tonight is we [...]

Byline: Travis M. Andrews Kevin Hart insists heâs never written a joke. Which is odd, because heâs this yearâs recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Hart is [...]

Byline: Travis M. Andrews M. Emmet Walsh, a prolific supporting actor who excelled in seedy and menacing roles, among them a comically deranged sniper in ǣThe Jerk,ǥ a double-crossing private [...]

Byline: Travis M. Andrews Netflix will stream this yearÇÖs Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, marking the second time the star-studded event has switched broadcasters in the past two years [...]

Byline: Travis M. Andrews What happens when people actually watch the movies nominated for the Oscars? It doesnât take many brain cells to guess: 19.5 million viewers - the showâs [...]

Byline: Travis M. Andrews Thereâs little suspense at the Oscars anymore, given the parade of precursor awards. We know that âOppenheimerâ is taking home best picture Sunday. We can confidently [...]

Byline: Travis M. Andrews TRAVIS! I have heard this name more during the past few weeks than at any other time in my life, which is strange because it is [...]

Byline: Travis M. Andrews Ah, December, when inboxes overflow with corporations defining your tastes and habits - your id, your ego, your very soul - from the past 12 months. [...]

Byline: Travis M. Andrews You didn't want to end up in the box with Andre Braugher. That is to say, you wouldn't want to be interrogated by Detective Frank Pembleton, [...]

Byline: Travis M. Andrews I first met Harvey and Mike during a short ride on Southwest Airlines. Not wanting to watch a sumptuous visual feast like 'Succession' on an iPhone [...]

Byline: Travis M. Andrews A tiny miracle takes place at the end of most mornings - around 11:59, in some parts of the country, or 10:59 in others. It's at [...]

Byline: Travis M. Andrews CORRECTION: A previous version of this story misidentified the fields where Billy Crystal learned to throw curveballs. They were at Long Beach High, not Long Island [...]

Byline: Travis M. Andrews It was a giddy night in Washington. Well, a giddy weekend. The Kennedy Center Honors is always a stately affair, and Sunday evening was no different [...]