Bloomberg The US government officially entered a partial shutdown on Saturday as Senate Democrats and a handful of Republicans blocked a bill to fund the government after the two parties failed to break their deadlock over immigration. The shutdown began one year from the day President Donald Trump was inaugurated. Trump and his aides were typically defiant, with his press ...

Bloomberg South Korea has officially asked North Korea to explain why it cancelled dispatching an advance team to the South to prepare for concerts during the yeongchang Winter Olympics, according to Yonhap. Pyongyang suddenly withdrew an earlier offer to send an advance team over the weekend to South Korea to check performance venues. The team, led by Hyon Song Wol, ...

Bloomberg The Trump administration accelerated its timetable for moving the US embassy to Jerusalem, weighing a plan to retrofit the existing consulate there by the end of 2019 in order to fulfill a key campaign pledge by the president. Building a new embassy would have taken too long and is “cost-prohibitive” so “we’re going to retrofit an existing facility,” Steve ...