Politics

Bloomberg Donald Trump took on most of his usual targets at a campaign-style rally on April 28, including Democrats, the media and former FBI Director James Comey, and urged his supporters to vote in midterm elections to prevent a rollback of his policies. The president spoke in Washington, Michigan, on Saturday night as members of the media gathered in the ...

Bloomberg Ministers rallied to the defense of beleaguered UK Home Secretary Amber Rudd as she prepared to face lawmakers on Monday in a House of Commons appearance that could make or break her career. Already under pressure over the status of post-World War II immigrants from the Caribbean, Rudd will defend her claim last week that she didn’t know about ...

Bloomberg Romania is heading into another bout of tension after President Klaus Iohannis called for the prime minister to step down because of a spat over foreign policy and the budget. Fighting between Iohannis and the ruling party has been a dominant feature of the European Union nation’s political scene since the Social Democrats swept to power in 2016. They’ve ...

Bloomberg Italian political preferences are becoming more right wing as a political impasse in the country drags on two months after a general election, according to a poll published in La Repubblica. Support for Matteo Salvini’s League was close to 22 percent compared to 17.4 percent at the March 4 election, according to the survey, which was conducted by Demos ...

Bloomberg The leaders of Asia’s two most-populous countries agreed to strengthen communication between their two militaries to avoid disputes along their contested Himalayan border, after last year’s months-long standoff over territory in Bhutan. Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met for an “informal summit” in China’s central city of Wuhan on April 27 and on Saturday. ...

Bloomberg Earlier this week Brazil’s President Michel Temer called the ten Senate leaders of his ruling coalition to discuss the year’s legislative agenda. Only four showed up. Later that same day, the plenary of the lower house, which was due to vote on key bills to help the country recover from the worst recession on record, was conspicuously empty. Instead, ...

Bloomberg North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in agreed on April 27 to finally end a seven-decade war this year, and pursue the “complete denucleariaation” of the Korean Peninsula. US President Donald Trump hailed the move, declaring “KOREAN WAR TO END!” on Twitter. He’s agreed to meet with Kim at a time and place yet to ...

Bloomberg Europe’s preeminent leaders gave it their best shot this week. All signs are it didn’t work. France’s Emmanuel Macron and Germany’s Angela Merkel made their separate ways to Washington with a joint mission: to persuade President Donald Trump to stay in the Iran nuclear accord and grant the European Union a reprieve from US tariffs on steel and aluminum. ...

Bloomberg House Republicans chided both the Trump and Clinton campaigns for poor judgment over their contacts with Russia, even as they dismissed the notion of collusion with Moscow in concluding an investigation riven by bitter partisanship. While President Donald Trump’s campaign didn’t work directly with Moscow, some of his senior advisers erred by meeting in 2016 with a Russian lawyer ...

Bloomberg Senate Democrats in this year’s toughest re-election races raised more than twice as much as their Republican opponents during the first quarter of 2018, while the GOP burned resources on primary fights in multiple states. The 10 Democratic incumbents running in the November election from states won by President Donald Trump raised a combined $24.4 million in the first ...