Trump’s foster care executive order: key missteps and successes analyzed
18 Nov

Trump’s foster care executive order: key missteps and successes analyzed

Politics
Your browser does not support the audio element. NEW: Try Article Audio NEW: Try Article Audio Audio quality:| 00:00 00:00 00:00/00:00 - + It’s not every day that President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump hold a joint press conference to launch new policy initiatives. But last week they appeared together to announce a new executive order on foster care. Some parts of the order simply represent a consensus of bipartisan pablum that will change nothing. But others hint at the possibility of real innovation in our child welfare system and a sense that the president is clearly rejecting…
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Klimt Painting Sells for Record $236.4 Million at Auction
18 Nov

Klimt Painting Sells for Record $236.4 Million at Auction

Art
​ Advertisement At Sotheby’s new headquarters, the auction house also sold a $12.1 million solid-gold toilet Klimt’s ‘Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer,’ a 1914-1916 depiction of the daughter of one of the artist’s biggest patrons. Sotheby’s A Gustav Klimt painting sold for a historic $236.4 million Tuesday night at Sotheby’s first auction in its new home in New York’s Breuer building, making it the world’s most expensive modern artwork at auction and the second-priciest work of art ever auctioned overall. “Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer” is Klimt’s 1914-1916 painting of a woman standing in a shimmering white gown against a periwinkle backdrop,…
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