Bloomberg British Prime Minister Theresa May struck back at the European Union for bluntly dismissing her Brexit plan with a speech designed to shore up her increasingly precarious position at home. May told EU leaders that she wouldn’t back down and demanded they show “respect” to her country during talks. Rather than giving her a boost, a summit of EU ...

Bloomberg Another week, another coalition crisis for Angela Merkel. Just days after Germany’s chancellor said her government had a deal to remove the domestic intelligence chief over his stance on anti-migrant protests, the accord fell apart Friday in a renewed sign of political fragility in Europe’s biggest economy. Merkel said she’ll find a new solution this weekend. The case of ...

Bloomberg A lawyer for the woman who accuses Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of an assault sought another day to agree on conditions for her testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee in a high-stakes hearing and assailed panel Republicans over “aggressive and artificial deadlines”. Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley threatened that his panel would vote on Kavanaugh’s nomination on Monday unless ...