Bloomberg Italy’s construction industry is crumbling after years of recession and bad investments, but now the sector’s biggest player is betting it can be rebuilt. Salini Impregilo SpA, whose projects have included expansion of the Panama Canal to a new subway line in Riyadh, plans to create a 1.5 billion-euro ($1.7 billion) construction hub dubbed “Progetto Italia,” or Project Italy, ...

Bloomberg Donald Trump called the UK ambassador to Washington a “stupid guy,” even as the British government tried to prevent the row with the US President over leaked diplomatic memos from escalating. “The wacky Ambassador that the UK foisted upon the United States is not someone we are thrilled with, a very stupid guy,” Trump tweeted. “I don’t know the ...

Bloomberg House Speaker Nancy Pelosi accused President Donald Trump’s administration of wanting to “make America white again” with its plan to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census. “You know his hat? ‘Make America white again.’ They want to make sure that people, certain people, are counted,” Pelosi said at a press conference on election security. “It’s really disgraceful ...