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Bloomberg US Attorney General Jeff Sessions had suggested in the past several weeks he might resign amid a widening rift with President Donald Trump, according to a person familiar with the matter. Sessions has come under fire from the president over his recusal from an investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 US election, an inquiry that’s now exploring whether ...

Bloomberg Theresa May said she’d be willing to tear up human-rights legislation to combat terrorism in a move the Labour opposition said was an attempt to distract from her cuts to police, as security dominated the closing stages of the UK election campaign. The prime minister and her Labour Party opponent, Jeremy Corbyn, set out on whistle-stop tours of the ...

When the next financial crisis hits — an event that may be years or decades away — we will learn whether this Congress and the president drew the right lessons from the 2008-09 financial crisis. Congress is arguing over whether government can avoid ‘bailouts’ of large financial institutions and still prevent a full-blown crisis. With all of President Trump’s trials ...

Nyl Patangan, a nursing graduate from the Philippines, left his native land in search of a better life. Now working in a Chicago hospital after a stint in Dubai, he’s supporting his parents back home and is buying his mother a Toyota Vios. A recent study by the Asian Development Bank shows that the number of immigrants with university degrees ...

Some government traditions with no legal basis — pardoning turkeys, for example — are silly but harmless. Others are not. Among them is an arcane, century-old practice known as “blue-slipping,” under which a single senator can block a president’s judicial nominee. The country would be better off without it. When the president sends a candidate for the federal bench to ...

We’re past the point of shifting blame. We know who gave us the presidency of Donald Trump, and it wasn’t Hillary Clinton or Jill Stein or James Comey. The culprit was democracy. Even if you defend democracy on the grounds that Trump lost the popular vote, it’s still a lame argument. After all, what kind of sensible political system generates ...

To critics of President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris climate accord, it may seem like presidential fiat is a very dysfunctional way to do foreign policy. How, exactly, is such overwhelming power consistent with checks and balances? How can one man, even if he is the president, single-handedly alter our international obligations? The short answer ...

So far, it’s mostly been about Amazon. But Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has a new foe. And it’s one it has lost out to before in Europe. It mustn’t repeat the same mistakes in its homeland. The world’s biggest retailer has been investing heavily in e-commerce in an effort to catch up with Amazon.com Inc. And as my colleague Shelly Banjo ...

As many as 115 states and 22 international organisations are going to take part in Kazakhstan EXPO 2017, the doors will be opened to the world on June 10. One of the largest international expos of the decade is held in Astana capital of Kazakhstan, which is the greatest achievement at the international level of Kazakhstan since its independence. EXPO ...

Bloomberg A measure of calm returned to markets on Wednesday, as investors started to reassess the risks surrounding a series of key events this week. Bank stocks powered equity gains after a troubled Spanish lender was rescued. Traditional haven assets steadied after Tuesday’s jump, with gold and Treasuries edging lower and the yen tempering an advance. European equities headed for ...