Bloomberg Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam pushed back against protester calls for the passage of US legislation that would require annual assessments of the city’s special trading status and allow sanctions on Chinese officials. “The Hong Kong government doesn’t agree on foreign parliaments passing bills to intervene in Hong Kong affairs, and we feel deep regret,” Lam told a regular ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump’s economic approval rating has dipped to 46 percent from 51 percent in July, as the majority of Americans fear a recession in the next year, a new Washington Post-ABC News polll finds. The survey shows some vulnerability in one of the Trump camp’s main arguments for re-election — that the US economy is strong — as ...

Bloomberg North Korea delivered a pointed message to the Trump administration — firing two “short-range projectiles” into its eastern seas hours after saying it was willing to restart nuclear talks with the US. The launches began shortly before 7 am local time on Tuesday, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said. The incident came shortly after a top North Korean ...