Bloomberg Queen Elizabeth II declared a “somber national mood” after the deadly apartment tower fire in West London killed at least 30 people as doubts mount about Prime Minister Theresa May’s handling of the crisis. For two days, May’s government has struggled to respond to the fire at Grenfell Tower, opened four decades ago as state-subsidized housing. She met survivors ...

Bloomberg The trial of Jay Y. Lee, heir to the Samsung Group empire, has featured thousands of pages of documents and hundreds of hours of testimony from dozens of witnesses. But experts say one thing is missing: a smoking gun. The billionaire stands accused of paying bribes to South Korean President Park Geun-hye and then trying to conceal it, charges ...

Forewarned is forearmed. So perhaps the country is lucky that President Trump’s allies have floated the possibility that he might fire special counsel Robert Mueller. This speculation allows citizens to reflect on the consequences of such an action. Trump has already taken the country to a darker place than even his sharpest critics would have imagined six months ago. He ...