Paulette Jiles, a horse-riding poet and historical novelist who evoked the grit and grandeur of the American West in “News of the World,” died at 82. A fossil of a young carnivorous dinosaur fetched over $30 million at Sotheby’s. The auction house had estimated its value at $4 million to $6 million.

In their decision allowing the Trump administration to dismantle the Department of Education, the justices didn’t offer one word of reasoning.

The bill was signed into law by President Jimmy Carter, who subsequently executed the law by standing up the new Cabinet-level agency. Every president since then, whether they supported the existence of the agency or not,