Today's five.

A federal judge ordered Trump's name removed from the Kennedy Center, and Washington delivered a thunderstorm right on deadline, because of course it did. Workers missed the Friday 11:59pm cutoff — not for political reasons, but because of rain — and the DOJ had to ask a judge for a 12-hour extension before scaffolding went up and the letters came down in the early hours of Saturday. The name had been there six months, added after Trump's handpicked board voted unanimously to rename a building Congress designated as a living memorial to John F. Kennedy in 1964. The Bulwark livestreamed the removal. Crowds watched from below.

Football careers don't often collapse as fast as Aldon Smith's rose. The 49ers announced his death Saturday — cause undisclosed, described only as "sudden and tragic." Smith came into the league in 2011 like a force of nature: 14 sacks as a rookie, 19.5 the following year (a franchise record), the fastest player in NFL history to reach 30. Fox led with the records. Newsweek led with "a series of troubling off-field incidents." Both are true. He was 36, which is younger than most people get to figure things out.

Scotts Miracle-Gro is paying $1 million to restore the White House South Lawn after UFC Freedom 250, which is a sentence that would have been fiction five years ago. The June 14 event went ahead after a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit trying to block it — so the legal threat never materialized, but the weather tried its best: 94-degree heat, a 60% chance of thunderstorms, and, per the University of Maryland's entomologist, "even more bugs than the crowd." Scotts gets the high-profile showcase; the National Park Service gets the money and the expertise. The lawn gets rebuilt. Everyone wins, technically.

Trump says he'll sign a deal with Iran on Sunday to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Pakistan's Prime Minister — who's been mediating — called it closer "than ever before" and said his country is "preparing for the electronic signing." Iran's Foreign Minister said the same thing, give or take a day. Then Bloomberg reported Iran contradicted Trump's timeline, and that the two sides still disagree on key points like who manages the waterway. NewsNation led with Trump's confidence. Bloomberg led with the contradiction. The Strait of Hormuz moves about 20% of the world's oil, so the gap between "close" and "done" is doing a lot of work right now.

Florida's Republican Party is managing its own gubernatorial primary debate the way referees manage a sport they don't want played. Ron DeSantis publicly called out state GOP chair Evan Power for using what he described as "ridiculous criteria" to engineer the field — essentially accusing his own party's apparatus of rigging the pregame. The pressure is coming from a sitting governor, which makes it awkward. Florida Politics covered the quote directly; broader framing of who benefits from a smaller debate stage is left as an exercise for the reader. Party primaries have always had this problem: the people running the process usually prefer a particular outcome.