Culture
President Donald Trump ordered the Kennedy Center in Washington closed for two years for renovations, prompting unions and orchestra leaders to seek other venues as critics blamed plunging ticket sales.
In China, Harry Potter character Draco Malfoy became an unlikely Year of the Horse mascot after his Mandarin transliteration’s characters mean “horse” and “fortune,” prompting memes and merchandise.
In Rome, restorer Bruno Valentinetti said he had covered a basilica fresco whose angel resembled Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and claimed the Curia ordered it, while he called it coincidental.
Penny, a Dobermann, won the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show in New York, and handler Andy Linton claimed his second Westminster title nearly four decades after his first.
