Politics

Bloomberg The two top officials at the Justice Department have interviewed eight candidates to replace the fired James Comey amid demands from lawmakers of both parties for Donald Trump to turn over any recordings he may have made of his meetings with the former FBI director. Washington continued to be roiled by Trump’s firing of Comey on May 9, citing ...

Bloomberg Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he’s looking forward to a “decisive meeting” with his US counterpart Donald Trump, whose decision to arm Kurdish groups against IS in Syria has stoked tensions between the two NATO members. “If we are strategic allies, then we should make decisions in alliance,” the Sabah newspaper cited Erdogan as telling reporters on Sunday ...

Bloomberg Attorneys from the U.S. Justice Department will again come before a federal appeals court to try to salvage President Donald Trump’s order banning travel from six mostly Muslim nations, after a judge said it appeared to be discriminatory. The hearing gets underway at 9:30 a.m. in Seattle. It’s the second time a three-judge panel from the Ninth Circuit Court ...

Bloomberg North Korea fired a ballistic missile early Sunday, its seventh such test this year, just days after South Korea elected a president who vowed to engage with Kim Jong Un’s regime to defuse tensions over its nuclear weapons program. The missile was launched at 5:27 a.m from the city of Kusong, northwest of the capital Pyongyang, and flew about ...

Bloomberg Russian interference in the 2016 US election has been “well documented,” but it’s still in the interests of the US to attempt to improve relations with Moscow, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said. “I don’t think there’s any question that the Russians were playing around in our electoral processes,” Tillerson said in an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press ...

Bloomberg Emmanuel Macron became the youngest president of France on Sunday, leading a country where economic malaise and security concerns drove extremist parties to their highest-ever scores in this year’s election. Macron is the eighth directly elected president of the Fifth Republic, after assuming the role in a ceremony at the Elysee Palace in Paris. “For decades France has doubted ...

Bloomberg The White House repeatedly refused to say whether President Donald Trump secretly records his official conversations, after Trump suggested in a tweet that he had “tapes” of discussions with former FBI director James Comey. Trump issued a series of inflammatory Twitter posts, including a barely veiled threat against Comey, an assertion that it’s “not possible” for his spokesmen to ...

Bloomberg A senior North Korean official said his country would be willing to talk to the US government if conditions were right, according to South Korean news agency Yonhap. Choe Sun-hui, director general for North American affairs at North Korea’s foreign ministry, made the comment to reporters in Beijing, Yonhap reported on Saturday. The remarks follow comments by US President ...

Bloomberg The cyber-attack that spread rapidly around the globe was stifled when a security researcher disabled a key mechanism used by the worm to spread, but experts said the hackers were likely to return as many computers remain at risk. Hackers can still gain easy access to personal computers that lack a security update issued in March by Microsoft Corp. ...

Bloomberg State-led Russian hackers remain a “major threat” to the U.S. government and will keep up their attacks after seeking to influence the 2016 presidential vote, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats said in an annual “Worldwide Threat Assessment.” Coats, in a statement prepared for a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Thursday, stood by past intelligence community assertions that only ...