Author: Ross Mulcahy
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Esoteric and pioneering, the paintings of a lesser-known Pre-Raphaelite, Evelyn De Morgan, explored the trauma and meaning of war – and prefigured current fantasy art. On a rocky beach that glows red with lava, smoke-breathing dragons surround wretched-looking prisoners beseeching an angel to deliver them from suffering. The oil painting Death of the Dragon by…
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Trent Alexander-Arnold’s replacement could be Jeremie Frimpong
How do you solve a problem like Trent Alexander-Arnold? With Liverpool’s star right-back set for a summer move to Real Madrid, Arne Slot is tasked with replacing one of the Premier League’s great full-backs. The England defender has come under criticism from his own supporters for the move but Liverpool have been quick to act…
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Amtrak’s new high-speed trains will be held back by tracks that greatly limit how quickly they can move
The US is a country of 340 million people, 71 interstate highways, more than 5,000 public airports, and currently no high-speed railways. Yet with two high-speed rail (HSR) projects now under construction, and others planned, is the US finally on track to start catching up with the fast trains seen in China, Japan and Europe?…
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Ursula von der Leyen’s text messages with the boss of Pfizer are at the centre of the case
The European Commission was wrong to refuse to release text messages sent by Ursula von der Leyen to the head of Pfizer during negotiations to secure Covid-19 vaccines, the EU’s top court has ruled. The General Court said the commission had not given a plausible explanation as to why the exchanges between its president and…
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Lando Norris finishes second as McLaren dominate
Demonstrating with emphatic effect that he must be considered now the frontrunner for the championship, Oscar Piastri’s drive from fourth on the grid to victory was the stuff that defines the battling Aussie spirit. Taking the win for McLaren with a piece of relentlessly controlled dominance, and in so doing determinedly maintaining his place out…
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The president backed down from his initial tariff plan when bond traders protested.
To borrow an old joke from President Donald Trump’s first term: Welcome to the resistance, bond traders. The financial professionals who buy and sell U.S. Treasury bonds for major investors on the secondary market helped force the president to back down from imposing a disastrous set of tariffs on almost every country in the world.…
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Luigi Mangione attends a pretrial hearing at New York State Supreme Court on Feb. 21, 2025.
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The 22nd Amendment leaves none of the wiggle room that Trump’s lawyers exploited in Trump v. Anderson.
President Donald Trump said “I’m not joking” when he told NBC News on Sunday that his allies have been pushing him to run for a third term — but added that “it is far too early to think about it.” I disagree: It is not at all too early to think about whether and how a…
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Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) joins Katy Tur as Senate Democrats aim to curb President Trump’s tariffs on Canada and are launching a social security “war room.”
