Bloomberg Parts of the US government began shutting down on Saturday for the third time this year after a bipartisan spending deal collapsed over President Donald Trump’s demands for more money to build a wall along the US-Mexico border. Trump scuttled an agreement that would have kept the government open until February after coming under heavy criticism from conservative talk ...

Bloomberg Barcelona is providing the world with images of political tension and tribal conflict. Again. Fourteen months after capital of Spain’s Catalonia region grabbed the world’s attention during the failed attempt to declare independence, pro-separatism protesters clashed with police. It came just as Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez was holding a cabinet meeting there as part of his policy to repair ...

Bloomberg UK Labour Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn ruled out backing a new referendum on leaving the EU, telling the Guardian he would prefer to renegotiate a customs arrangement with the bloc in a decision that disappointed some party members. Corbyn, who has been pressed to back a grassroots effort for another referendum, said the House of Commons should proceed with ...