King Charles urges checks on executive power as Trump hosts royal visit

In a speech to Congress, the monarch avoided naming the president but highlighted democratic norms, Ukraine and Western unity.King Charles III urged Americans and Britons to draw on their shared heritage to defend democratic values, including checks on executive power, as he exhorted U.S. lawmakers to address global problems collectively in an era of unusually sharp divisions. In the course of his first state visit to the United States as monarch, Charles stayed scrupulously nonpartisan over the course of a 28-minute address to a joint meeting of Congress. But he promoted what he described as centuries of common interests, including...