Keir Starmer, the Labour Party’s new leader, has made a smooth start wooing British voters. In his former career the leader of the UK’s official opposition was indeed a successful defense lawyer in human rights cases, knighted subsequently for serving as Director of Public Prosecutions. Now he’s restoring Labour’s fortunes after a disastrous election and leads Boris Johnson in the ...

Here is a paradox. It is pretty easy to predict the voting patterns of new Supreme Court justices. But it can be exceedingly difficult to predict the votes of justices in specific cases, which means that it can be difficult as well to predict how those cases are going to be decided. When President Bill Clinton appointed Stephen Breyer to ...

Bloomberg The top US aviation regulator plans to test-fly Boeing Co’s grounded 737 Max in an attempt to show an antsy public that proposed fixes will be safe, according to a notification sent to Congress. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) chief Steve Dickson, who is licensed to fly the 737 along with several other jetliners from his time as a pilot ...

Bloomberg Delta Air Lines Inc warned it would take a pretax accounting charge of $2 billion to $2.5 billion after deciding to remove three aircraft types from its fleet amid an unprecedented collapse in air travel. The noncash impairment will be recorded in third-quarter results, which are due next month, Delta said in a regulatory filing. The company will retire ...

Bloomberg American Airlines Group Inc closed a $5.48 billion loan with the US Treasury, increasing its pool of cash to help fund operations until travel demand begins to return. The credit facility, backed by American’s loyalty program, increased from an original $4.75 billion target after rivals such as Delta Air Lines Inc and Southwest Airlines opted out of the funds ...

Bloomberg Poshmark Inc, an online resale marketplace for second-hand clothing, said it has filed confidentially for an initial public offering. The number of shares and the price range for the IPO haven’t been determined, Poshmark said in a statement. The Redwood City, California-based company had put off a potential IPO to focus on boosting sales and improving its execution, people ...

Bloomberg Neiman Marcus has officially come out of bankruptcy, a process that left the upscale department store with a lighter debt load and new owners to confront the same industry trends that led to its financial woes. The new Neiman Marcus Holding Company Inc emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, saying it had eliminated more than $4 billion of existing ...

Bloomberg Hawaiian Airlines will offer customers drive-through coronavirus testing in California to help island-bound travellers avoid a 14-day quarantine rule —its answer to rival United Airlines’ new on-the-spot airport screenings. The competing testing plans would satisfy Hawaii’s requirement for visitors to show a negative test result within 72 hours of arrival in order to avoid its self-isolation rule, which has ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden square off for 90 minutes in their first debate on Tuesday and political pros on both sides are fretting the most about a viral moment that can turn a good performance into a disaster that’s remembered for generations. A single ill-advised answer could turn off a crucial demographic in a battleground state. ...

Bloomberg Spain’s Supreme Court has barred Catalonia’s regional president from office for 18 months, adding a further dose of instability to a country immersed in its worst economic crisis in living memory. Joaquim Torra was found guilty of disobeying a court order to remove pro-independence symbols from Catalan public buildings in a “repeated, stubborn and obstinate” manner, according to the ...