“Lilacs” is the ideal soundtrack for splaying in the park with a beer on the first warm day of the year. The song isn’t in a rush; it drifts by, marking, as Katie Crutchfield sings, “the slow, slow, ...

Raúl Manuel Grijalva, the son of a Mexican immigrant who rose to the halls of Congress ... had conducted interviews with a handful of top White House aides — a standard part of the background ...