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The past friendship between President Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein was memorialized once again Friday after an anonymous artist group erected a 12-foot statue in Washington, D.C. to honor the “bond” between the two, and in the style of the 1997 hit film “Titanic.”

As reported by local CBS affiliate WUSA9, the statue was erected at the National Mall across from the Capitol, and came from the same group that erected another statue last year honoring Trump and Epstein’s past friendship.

The Washington National Opera's defiant break from the Kennedy Center is paying immediate dividends, with its latest show "Treemonisha" drawing sold-out crowds this weekend at the Lisner Auditorium at George Washington University.

The production marks the company's first show since severing its 55-year affiliation with the Kennedy Center in January, a split that came amid pressure from Trump-appointed Kennedy Center Executive Director Richard Grenell over operational control, concerns about donor confidence and collapsing ticket sales since the Trump takeover.

Announcing the departure in January, Artistic Director Francesca Zambello admitted she was "deeply saddened to leave the Kennedy Center," and warned in November that Trump administration policies had "shattered" donor confidence and triggered a 40 percent drop in ticket revenues.

Reception to the first post-Kennedy Center production was rapturous with General Director Timothy O'Leary and Zambello receiving more than a two-minute standing ovation when they took the stage to welcome audiences.

"It's been a really exciting, inspiring kind of groundswell of support," O'Leary said, describing the overwhelming response since the opera announced its independence. "As soon as we announced that we were producing the rest of our season at new venues, we heard overwhelmingly, not only from our audience, people saying, 'I wasn't coming but now I'm coming, absolutely. I'm coming twice.' We also heard from people who wrote in and said, 'I don't even like opera, but I'll come and attend any performance you give anywhere.'"

The return to Lisner Auditorium—where the company was founded in 1956—has taken on symbolic significance. O'Leary framed the move as a homecoming rooted in American civil society values.

"Thank you for believing in the idea of American civil society, whereby institutions that are mission-based like this are created and nurtured by we the people," O'Leary said in a Facebook video. "We've been feeling this incredible surge of enthusiasm and support from not only our usual but people from around the country."

Looking ahead, the opera will present "The Crucible" from March 21 through March 29, followed by two performances of "West Side Story" at The Lyric in Baltimore and Strathmore in North Bethesda to commemorate America's 250th anniversary.

President Donald Trump has suddenly grown interested in his former campaign manager's role in steering government contracts.

The 79-year-old president has been peppering aides with questions in recent days about longtime adviser Corey Lewandowski, who had been acting as de facto chief of staff to recently fired Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, and his involvement in a controversial $220 million advertising campaign, reported NBC News.

Two Florida Donald Trump voters expressed their dismay at exploding gas prices on MS NOW on Tuesday morning, with one grudgingly admitting he misses President Joe Biden — and that he is now broke.

As part of a report with host Anna Cabrera on the economic impact of Trump’s war on Iran, with oil prices going through the roof, MS NOW’s Alex Tabet spoke with the two men at a filling station in Lantana, Florida.

Pro-MAGA morning hosts David Brody, Gina Loudon, and Terrence Bates expressed full-throated support for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's "religious war" in Iran after he quoted scripture to support the U.S. strikes.

"Religious war! It's on!" Brody exclaimed during a Real America's Voice segment following Hegseth's Tuesday briefing. "I'm telling you that's happening. We've always looked at this from a Judeo-Christian standpoint, as relates to spiritual warfare. We know that God is richly blessed America."

A lawyer serving as President Donald Trump's pardon attorney for the Justice Department has been formally accused of misconduct.

The District of Columbia Bar filed ethics charges against DOJ pardon attorney Ed Martin over a threatening letter he sent last year, when he was serving as interim U.S. attorney, to the Georgetown University Law Center questioning its diversity and inclusion policies, reported CBS News.

Sen. Rand Paul warned of a "disastrous election" if President Donald Trump did not end his war against Iran.

"As far as the reasons for the war, there have been many different reasons floated, but none of them, I think, have been very convincing," Paul told Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo on Tuesday. "Another statement has been made, well, they're a week away from a nuclear weapon. You can take clips from the '90s all the way through the present of people arguing that they're a week away from nuclear weapons."