The children’s nursery rhyme I Can Sing a Rainbow swirls at the back of my mind as I wander the bright and beautiful rooms of art collector and author Ruth Evans’s north London home. Red and yellow and pink and green, purple and orange and blue – they’re all here. Evans has lived in this…
When the Pentagon announced a $620 million loan last year to a small North Carolina startup linked to Donald Trump Jr., defense officials and the company tried to tamp down suspicions of cronyism. The president’s eldest son said through a spokesperson that he wasn’t involved. The Pentagon said Trump Jr. played no role in the…
While President Donald Trump huffs and puffs over his unfinished White House ballroom (after bulldozing the East Wing for the project and leaving a big hole in the ground), preens over his remodel of the White House Rose Garden, and oversees the construction of an octagonal cage on the South Lawn for UFC fights scheduled on…
It’s been hard to imagine the scene planned for the Trump White House on June 14: Mixed martial arts fighters in a cage match on the South Lawn. Though it’s easier to visualize this week, as the Ultimate Fighting Championship has begun setting up bleachers and a giant arch for the planned event. The work…
President Trump will host President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil at the White House on Thursday, at a moment of a fragile truce following a tense year of U.S. tariffs and public insults between the leaders of the Western Hemisphere’s largest nations. Mr. Trump has subjected Brazil to a whiplash of measures, only…
When Jordan Wood, a progressive running for an open congressional seat in Maine, woke up on Monday morning, his husband looked at him as if someone had just died. No one had. But while he was sleeping, Mr. Wood had missed some jarring news: An official from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee had left a…
President Trump, who promoted a hands-off approach to artificial intelligence and gave Silicon Valley free rein to roll out the technology, is considering the introduction of government oversight over new A.I. models, according to U.S. officials and people briefed on the deliberations. The administration is discussing an executive order to create an A.I. working group…
Democratic officials added eight candidates on Monday to a list of top contenders in congressional midterm battlegrounds, wading into a handful of contested primaries to make clear the party leadership’s preference in some of the country’s most critical districts. The additions by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee to its “Red to Blue” program bring the…
Counterterrorism czar Sebastian Gorka is one of the most controversial figures in the Trump administration, a gate crasher in the buttoned-up world of national security. In a field where quiet professionalism is revered, Gorka is loud and mercurial. With a booming, British-accented voice, he describes U.S. operations turning suspected terrorists into “red mist” and stacking…
The Supreme Court’s blow to the Voting Rights Act had barely landed on Wednesday when Senator Marsha Blackburn, Republican of Tennessee, called on lawmakers to eliminate the last Democratic-held House seat in the state. Taking to social media shortly after the ruling, Ms. Blackburn, the favorite to become the state’s next governor, urged the Legislature…
