Bloomberg The White House is reviewing whether to invoke executive privilege to prevent former FBI Director James Comey from testifying before a congressional panel next week. Comey is scheduled to testify on Thursday before the Senate Intelligence Committee about his May 9 firing by President Donald Trump. The panel is investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election and whether …

Bloomberg The final television event of Britain’s general election campaign saw both Prime Minister Theresa May and her main challenger, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, take a pummeling from angry voters. May has refused to directly debate Corbyn, and so the BBC’s “Question Time” featured the two leaders consecutively, with the prime minister going first. There was no gentle warming up, …

Bloomberg European Union and Italian officials agreed on a plan to restructure Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena SpA, allowing Italy to inject capital to rescue the world’s oldest bank. Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager and Italian Finance Minister Pier Carlo Padoan reached “an agreement in principle” on a deal that paves the way for a precautionary recapitalization of the lender, …