Bloomberg Pressured by his closest advisers to force a snap election, Matteo Salvini is hesitating. The usually hyper-active deputy premier is keeping the country waiting as he considers whether to take his biggest political gamble yet and pull out of Italy’s fractious populist coalition. The leader of the rightist League is looking to capitalise on his victory in May’s European ...

Bloomberg The European Union is preparing to offer the next British PM a Brexit extension beyond October 31 to provide yet another attempt to reach an agreement, The Guardian reported, citing unidentified EU officials. The extra period of membership, while allowing for an agreement to be reached, could be billed to members of the Conservative Party as an opportunity to ...

Thirty months after setting the goal of sending a mission 239,000 miles to the moon, and returning safely, President John Kennedy cited a story the Irish author Frank O’Connor told about his boyhood. Facing the challenge of a high wall, O’Connor and his playmates tossed their caps over it. Said Kennedy, “They had no choice but to follow them. This ...