BLOOMBERG Former Vice President Mike Pence offered his sharpest criticism to date of Donald Trump, holding his former boss responsible for the Capitol insurrection in early 2021 as he teased his own White House ambitions for 2024. “History will hold Donald Trump accountable” for what happened on January 6, 2021, Pence told an audience of several hundred policy makers and ...

BLOOMBERG Russian missiles and artillery have destroyed more than 152,000 residential buildings since the start of the invasion, Ukrainian Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said in a televised interview. Ukraine has already registered 66,300 criminal proceedings of the alleged crimes committed by Russian troops from the start of full-scale invasion, according to Klymenko. “Most of the crimes are violations of the ...

BLOOMBERG China has named a general sanctioned by the US to be its new defense minister, setting up a potentially awkward encounter if he’s ever paired up with US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin for a meeting. General Li Shangfu is set to become Minister of National Defense and State Councilor — China’s equivalent of a cabinet member — according to ...