Bloomberg Donald Trump lashed out at US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, calling her “bad for our country,” undercutting the White House’s message that the president plans to make an optimistic plea for bipartisanship in his State of the Union address next week. “I think she’s very bad for our country,” Trump said in an interview with CBS, referring to the ...

Bloomberg Opponents of Venezuela’s socialist regime marched in Caracas as pressure builds at home and abroad for President Nicolas Maduro to step down. Opposition leader Juan Guaido, who’s vying to set up a caretaker government, rallied his supporters to the streets as a deadline imposed by several European Union countries to hold a presidential election expires. The US and two ...

Bloomberg Alberta is easing mandatory oil curtailments after prices for heavy crude from the Canadian province surged while producers were getting exasperated. The new target for output next month will be 3.63 million barrels a day, up from 3.56 million in January, the provincial government said in a statement. Inventories have dropped by 5 million barrels, reducing a glut that ...