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Painting an apartment is like going out to dinner — you can find a hot dog wagon, put down a few bucks and get it over with, or you can go to a nice restaurant and spend a bundle. It all depends on how much time, effort, and money you want to spend. For most people, though, cheaper is better, and that means doing it yourself.

Painting an apartment is like going out to dinner — you can find a hot dog wagon, put down a few bucks and get it over with, or you can go to a nice restaurant and spend a bundle. It all depends on how much time, effort, and money you want to spend. For most people, though, cheaper is better, and that means doing it yourself.

(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good morning. Here’s what you need to know: • Meghan Markle, an American actress who is biracial and divorced, is set to become the newest addition to Britain’s royal family.

Royal watchers, fairy tale lovers and proponents of the “special relationship” between Britain and the United States, let out your collective breath: Prince Harry, fifth in line to the British throne, famous flirt, recent spokesman for mental health and all-around paparazzi magnet, and his girlfriend, the American actress Meghan Markle, are engaged.

Royal-watchers have a new reason to celebrate. The British monarchy is set to stage its next royal wedding — starring an American. Prince Harry, who is fifth in line to the throne, and Meghan Markle, an actress from Los Angeles, went public with their engagement on Monday and are scheduled to wed next spring. Like previous royal nuptials, it is expected to be an eye-catching spectacle of pageantry, observing centuries of tradition carried through generations of knot-tying.

There was something old and something new in the ring Meghan Markle, the American actress, wore when she and Prince Harry announced their engagement on Monday. The ring, which the prince himself designed, bore three glittering diamonds: a central stone from Botswana and two others from the collection of the prince’s mother, Princess Diana, who died in 1997, the couple said in a joint interview shared on social media on Monday. “It’s incre

Once upon a time, in 1936, a British monarch named Edward VIII was forbidden to marry his divorced American girlfriend and also be king, so he renounced the throne, moved with her to France and lived not-so-happily ever after. Nearly 20 years later, forced to make a similarly unpleasant choice, Edward’s niece Margaret opted to keep her title but jettison her (also divorced) boyfriend.

HENAGAR, Ala. — In a Senate race full of will-he-or-won’t-he dramas, President Trump settled one last week at the White House when he expressed support for Roy S. Moore. But nearly a week after Mr. Trump essentially offered his renewed endorsement for Mr.

In 1980, under pressure to begin construction on what would become his signature project, Donald J.

WASHINGTON — President Trump returned from his Thanksgiving break with new attacks on his least favorite news network, CNN, and suggested a contest for the “most dishonest” media outlet. In a series of Twitter posts over the weekend and early Monday, Mr. Trump criticized CNN’s international arm for representing “our nation to the WORLD very poorly.” The president praised Fox News and has been complimentary of its coverage of him and his administration. CNN responded in a Twitter post that it is “not CNN’s job to represent the U.S. to the world.