Bloomberg Artificial rain created to deal with Indonesia’s massive wildfires has helped significantly lower the number of hotspots across the archipelago, authorities said. The number was down to 136, compared with 1,374 last week, according to the country’s Environment and Forestry Ministry. Since last week, Indonesian agencies have scattered more than 200,000 kilograms of salt for cloud seeding and 317 ...

Bloomberg Nancy Pelosi set House Democrats on a course towards an impeachment of President Donald Trump without a clear road map for where it will go and how long it will take — even as new information comes to light. Democrats accelerated their inquiry, issuing a subpoena and setting plans for witness interviews. But Pelosi, the House speaker, must still ...

Bloomberg The White House denounced a federal judge’s decision to halt President Donald Trump’s administration from expediting deportations of people who entered the US illegally. “Once again, a single district judge has suspended application of Federal law nationwide — removing whole classes of illegal aliens from legal accountability,” the White House said in a statement. US District Judge Ketanji Brown ...