The European Union, taken as a whole, is America’s biggest trading partner. That makes President Trump’s fresh tariffs especially painful for the 27-nation bloc — but also gives it a uniquely large amount of economic weight to throw around in response. In the hours after Mr. Trump’s sweeping tariff announcement on Wednesday, European leaders began … Read more
A Kremlin envoy said on Thursday that he was meeting with the Trump administration in Washington this week, the first time in years that a senior Russian official was known to have traveled to the United States for talks with American counterparts. The envoy, Kirill Dmitriev, is the head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund and … Read more
Smirnova now often looks to pare movement back, she said, praising “the power of stillness” onstage. James Bonas, a British stage director who adapted “Macbeth” with Pickett, compared Smirnova’s “clarity and simplicity” to that of great theater performers. “In ballet, acting can have a painted-on quality, but she understands the idea of inhabiting a character … Read more
The two women are a coil of contradictions: Roman but also Greek, flesh but also stone. They both are confident, blessed with the poise of the noble and famous, yet also slightly shy. As if, after centuries of gazes, they can only appear before us slightly abashed. As if they know there is such a … Read more
Imagine a ball pit — but one crowded with teens and 20-somethings instead of small children, and filled with biodegradable confetti instead of plastic spheres. That is one way to describe the scene on Saturday at a pop-up shop that Glossier, the American beauty brand, opened last week in Paris to promote the release of … Read more
After all that — the chummy Oval Office meeting, the extraordinary royal invitation, the paeans to the “special relationship” — Britain and its solicitous prime minister, Keir Starmer, still got swept into President Trump’s tariffs, along with the European Union and other major American trading partners. Mr. Trump imposed his basic tariff of 10 percent … Read more
Hungary said on Thursday that it would pull out of the International Criminal Court, announcing its decision just hours after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel arrived there for a visit despite facing an international arrest warrant. The government of Prime Minister Viktor Orban had made clear that it would ignore its obligations to act … Read more
When Steven Woloshin, an American doctor, first saw the 600-year-old fresco of a Crucifixion by the Renaissance master Fra Angelico inside a cloistered convent in January last year, he was blown away. “I immediately thought this is the most amazing thing I’ve seen,” he said recently. The image’s simplicity and power overwhelmed him, he said. … Read more
Secretary of State Marco Rubio traveled to Brussels on Thursday for a gathering of NATO foreign ministers amid high anxiety over the Trump administration’s approach to Europe, including the war in Ukraine, relations with Russia and President Trump’s growing trade war with the continent. Mr. Rubio’s visit to the alliance’s headquarters, the first by a … Read more
