Bloomberg Protests led by the grassroots Yellow Vest movement abated across France on December 22, a signal that a call to mobilise for a sixth straight weekend failed to maintain the momentum. An estimated 23,800 protested nationwide, down from 33,500 at the same time a week ago, Agence France Presse (AFP) reported, citing the interior ministry. Authorities stopped 109 people ...

Bloomberg A new legal filing appears to ask the US Supreme Court to intervene for the first time in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into the 2016 election. The document, which is under seal, stems from a December 18 federal appeals court ruling that required an unidentified company, owned by an unidentified foreign country, to turn over information to a ...

“You’re the top! You’re an Arrow collar. You’re the top! You’re a Coolidge dollar. You’re the nimble tread of the feet of Fred Astaire, You’re Mussolini, You’re Mrs. Sweeny, You’re Camember.” A version of “You’re the Top,” Cole Porter (1934) In the early 1930s, when Benito Mussolini was one of the world’s most admired political figures, Franklin Roosevelt proclaimed in ...