Bloomberg Mahathir Mohamad failed in his bid to return to power in Malaysia, as the king approved a government dominated by Malay-majority parties in a monumental shift from the multiracial coalition that took power after a shocking election win two years ago. Muhyiddin Yassin, 72, was named prime minister on Saturday by the country’s monarch to end a six-day tussle ...

Bloomberg Donald Trump defeated Democrats’ effort to force former White House Counsel Don McGahn to testify, in a court ruling that bolsters the president’s resistance to congressional oversight. The federal appeals court’s ruling arrives too late to affect the impeachment process, which was resolved with Trump’s acquittal by the Senate in February. But it could have an impact on other ...

Bloomberg Hong Kong media tycoon and a prominent democracy advocate Jimmy Lai, who has long denounced as a traitor by Chinese state media, was among activists swept up in a fresh wave of arrests in the Asian financial hub. Lai, 72, was arrested on suspicion of participating in an unlawful assembly last year and intimidating a reporter in 2017, Hong ...