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President Trump says he's planning to shut down the Kennedy Center for two years beginning on July 4th to make a major renovation move more quickly.

But as NPR's Tamara Keith reports, this comes as the Performing Arts Center has suffered mass rejection by patrons and performers alike.

House Speaker Mike Johnson says he expects lawmakers this week to vote on a nearly $1.3 trillion funding bill to fully reopen the federal government.

The Senate has already passed the measure and President Trump says he endorses it.

But there is one area of disagreement with Democrats, funding for the Department of Homeland Security.

Speaking to NBC's Meet the Press, Johnson says Republicans will fund all federal agencies, then negotiate with Democrats.

A Russian drone attack on a Ukrainian energy company bus has killed at least 12 coal mine workers and injured 16 more people.

NPR's Joanna Kakisis reports from Kiev that the attack came hours after Ukraine's president said talks to end the war would continue later this week.

His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama has won a Grammy Award for his narration of an audiobook about compassion.

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Liam Conejo Ramos is now home.

Photos of the five-year-old boy in his blue bunny hat and Spider-Man backpack went viral last month after school officials said federal agents tried to use him to lure other adults out from his Minneapolis home.

Federal agents took Liam and his father, Adrian Conejo Arias, to a Texas detention facility where they remained until their release this morning, ordered by Judge Fred Beery.

He called their arrest and detention cruel and unconstitutional.

Nationwide, lawsuits and federal investigations have pushed schools to help students with disabilities make up for the services they went without during the pandemic.

In Pittsburgh, students missed out on more than 600,000 hours of special education support, as Jillian Forstad of member station WESA reports.

Live from NPR News in New York City, I'm Dua Halisa-Cautel.

The Senate advanced a massive federal government funding package hours before the Friday night deadline.

NPR's Luke Garrett reports.