Bloomberg The Biden administration is counting on a rule change to speed up asylum decisions at the southern border and help ward off the turmoil expected to come if a measure that limits those claims is allowed to expire. Department of Homeland Security officials will get the power to reject or approve asylum cases directly starting from May 31. It’s ...

Bloomberg Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the UK can a dodge a recession in the months ahead even as the cost of living crisis sets the stage for a “difficult” period. Economic pressures are emerging as the gravest political threat to Johnson and his party, beyond the various scandals that have dogged his government such as the row over illegal ...

  Bloomberg France’s new government reaffirmed the country’s pledge to lower debt after the Covid-19 pandemic forced President Emmanuel Macron to carry out an unprecedented spending splurge to prevent economy from crashing. “I will be a relentless craftsman in keeping our public accounts in a context that we know is difficult,” Gabriel Attal, France’s new budget minister, said in a ...