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Justice Ginsburg hints at sharp divides as Supreme Court term nears closure

Bloomberg Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg hinted that sharp divisions will mark the final weeks of a Supreme Court term that will include major rulings on the census and partisan gerrymandering. Speaking before the annual conference of federal judges in New York, Ginsburg suggested that more than a quarter of the court’s remaining 27 rulings will be decided by a single ...

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Green Party extends its lead over Merkel

Bloomberg Germany’s Green Party has a three-point lead over Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats in the first national opinion poll since the country’s junior coalition chief resigned. The Greens stayed at 27 percent, while Merkel’s CDU-CSU alliance lost three percentage points at 24 percent, according to the Forsa GmbH poll, reported by German broadcasters RTL and n-tv. The country’s Social ...

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The brave new world of rival trading blocs

We may be on the cusp of an upheaval in global trade. Since World War II, the international trading system has operated on the premise of “most favoured nation (MFN),” meaning that concessions granted to one country must be extended to all countries in the system. The trade standoff between the United States and China suggests that this approach is ...

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