Bloomberg President Donald Trump and his lawyer fired what may be the first shots in a showdown with Special Counsel Robert Mueller over the future of his investigation into Russian election meddling and Trump’s campaign. The president kept the pressure on early Sunday with a series of Twitter messages assailing Mueller’s investigation, former FBI Director James Comey, and Andrew McCabe, ...

BEIRUT / Reuters Any new European sanctions against Iran will have a direct effect on the nuclear deal struck between world powers and Tehran, Iran’s deputy foreign minister said, according to state media. “In case some European countries are following steps to put non-nuclear sanctions against Iran in order to please the American president, they will be making a big ...

Bloomberg This is no longer a market that mixes relentless gains with the occasional sharp downdraft. For the third week in a row, the S&P 500 Index reversed some or all of the prior week’s performance. This time it fell, albeit with 2018’s smallest decline, after climbing 3.5 percent in the previous five days. It was a pattern of alternating ...