Politics

Bloomberg French President Emmanuel Macron, who welcomed Donald Trump to Paris two days ago to participate in Bastille Day celebrations, said the US president may seek a solution over the next months for the fight against global warming. “We’ve spoken in detail on what may allow him to return into the Paris accord,” Macron said in comments published on Sunday ...

Bloomberg Donald Trump made a fresh attack on the media on Sunday as a new opinion polls showed falling approval ratings in the sixth month of the president’s term, and hours after news that his campaign made a payment in late June to the law firm later revealed to be representing Donald Trump Jr. “With all of its phony unnamed ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump’s campaign committee paid $50,000 in late June to the law firm now representing Donald Trump Jr. in the matter of a 2016 meeting with a Russian lawyer while seeking damaging information about Democrat Hillary Clinton. The June 27 payment to the Law Offices of Alan S. Futerfas came almost two weeks before news of the meeting—involving ...

Bloomberg The meeting that Donald Trump Jr. had in June 2016 with a woman billed as a Russian government lawyer included at least one other person with long-standing ties to Russia. Rinat Akhmetshin, who once served in a Soviet counterintelligence unit, told the Associated Press that he was also there, along with a translator. The revelation adds to the questions ...

Bloomberg House Republicans plan to give federal prosecutors what they say is evidence that Obama administration officials illegally shared or leaked names of associates of President Donald Trump that were incidentally collected in US government eavesdropping. The Intelligence Committee obtaine information from documents and other sources that it plans to turn over to the Justice Department, likely by August, to ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump’s administration took the dispute over his temporary travel ban to the Supreme Court again, asking the justices to let the government bar entry into the US by people with grandparents and cousins in the country. The administration filed papers late Friday asking the court to clarify a June 26 ruling that said the government had to ...

Bloomberg Former Prime Minister Tony Blair said Britain should keep open the option of staying in the European Union so Brexit can be called off if the mood of voters changes during the two-year negotiation period. The damage to the economy and livelihoods caused by a break from the 28-nation bloc is becoming clearer as divorce proceedings continue, and a ...

Bloomberg China freed the most prominent dissident jailed under President Xi Jinping, drawing further attention to the country’s human-rights record amid an international outcry over the death of Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo. Xu Zhiyong, 44, founder of the New Citizens’ Movement, was released on Saturday after completing a four-year prison sentence for gathering a crowd to disturb the public order, ...

Bloomberg The European Union and the UK will seek to agree on broad principles on the Irish border dilemma in coming months to prevent the search for a solution holding up the wider Brexit talks, according to four officials familiar with the matter. The principles will go a little further than the negotiating directives published by the EU in May, ...

Bloomberg The UK is preparing a departure from Euratom that will keep disruptions to a “minimum,” as the government moves to quell concerns that ending European nuclear cooperation could put cancer patients at risk. The assurances came from Energy Minister Richard Harrington during a debate in Parliament on Wednesday. The transportation of radioactive materials used to diagnose and treat cancer ...