Politics

Bloomberg Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond said transitional arrangements for Britain leaving the European Union are likely to last a couple of years, rather than the couple of months suggested by his cabinet colleague, Trade Secretary Liam Fox. “It depends how long we need to put in place new customs systems, new migration systems; these things can’t be magicked ...

Bloomberg German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she planned to serve a full four-year term if re-elected and defended herself against a political attack by her Social Democratic challenger that she’s faltered on public infrastructure investment. “I made clear when I announced my re-election bid that I would run for four years,” Merkel said in an interview with ARD television on ...

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, ...