On modest civil servants’ salaries, she and her husband amassed a trove of some 4,000 works by art-world luminaries, storing them in their one-bedroom Manhattan apartment.
Dorothy Vogel with her husband, Herbert, in a New York gallery in 1992. Their Manhattan rent-controlled apartment functioned as a fine-art storage locker as well as an exhibition space for thousands of works by contemporary artists.
The 77-year-old Connecticut Democrat is facing primary challenges from people who say he’s too old and has been around too long. He says his age and experience are his strength.
Images of federal agents chasing immigrants have rattled many. Others see evidence of an effective crackdown. It remains to be seen whether the operation might sway voters next year.
Federal agents walked through a park in downtown Charlotte on Thursday. Reactions have varied widely over the Border Patrol operation in North Carolina since agents zeroed in on Charlotte last week and briefly spread out to Raleigh and Durham.
Louisiana officials have been eager for a federal intervention, but planned Border Patrol operations have stoked fear in the city’s immigrant work force.
In New Orleans, the looming immigration crackdown has stoked concerns about broader implications for the overall functioning of a city that has already had a remarkably turbulent year.
Nechemya Weberman, convicted of molesting a 12-year-old girl in a politically charged case, is seeking a new, shorter sentence with the Brooklyn district attorney’s support.
A global group of researchers was unable to read the vote tally, after an official lost one of three secret code keys needed to unlock a hyper-secure election system.
Formal reprimands, once rare, dominated the chamber’s agenda this week, prompting lawmakers in both parties to call for changes to the way the House handles such actions.
The U.S. Capitol building in Washington, last month. Official House rebukes, once exceedingly rare and mostly a matter of consensus for the most egregious conduct or illegal acts by a sitting member of Congress, have become commonplace in recent years.
The final agreement, with no direct mention of the fossil fuels dangerously heating Earth, was a victory for countries like Saudi Arabia and Russia, diplomats said.
The Phillips Collection sold three works and raised $13 million to buy contemporary art, but the decision has led to rancor within the 104-year-old institution.
Guided by Leonard Leo, the society built a pipeline for traditional conservative judges. But that might not be enough for President Trump in his second term.
In the Trump administration’s latest effort to pressure Ukraine into accepting a 28-point peace plan, officials from the two countries will hold talks in Geneva.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House in Washington, earlier this year. Ukraine’s European allies have criticized the 28-point proposal because it was initially negotiated between the United States and Russia, without Ukrainian involvement.
In a joint statement, the leaders reaffirmed their commitment to Ukraine, which faces the prospect of losing American support if it rejects the latest proposal.
António Costa, president of the European Council, left, and Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, right, with President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa, in Johannesburg on Thursday.
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