By Meg Wagner and Amanda Wills What we’re covering here: Just wrapped up: Roger Stone appeared in court. He’s expected to speak soon. Roger Stone: The longtime Donald Trump associate has been indicted by a grand jury on charges brought by special counsel Robert Mueller. The allegations: Mueller alleges that Stone sought stolen emails from WikiLeaks that could damage Trump’s opponents […] Read more
By Catherine Bosley Yale’s Robert Shiller says Elizabeth Warren harmed her chances by calling for higher taxes on the ultra-wealthy. Taxing the ultra-rich more heavily as proposed by U.S. presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren probably won’t work, according to Nobel laureate Robert Shiller. The widening gap between the rich and the poor and its effect in […] Read more
Italy’s Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte speaks to the media during the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, January 23, 2019 Germany and France are making fun of Italy and the European Union with their treaty to give Germany a permanent seat at the United Nations, Italian daily Corriere della Sera on Friday […] Read more
US President Donald Trump says he recognises Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó as interim president. Tens of thousands of Venezuelans are taking to the streets in protest against President Nicolás Maduro. Mr Guaidó, who called for the demonstrations, declared himself acting leader in Caracas on Wednesday. Mr Maduro was sworn in for a second term […] Read more
By: Erin Donnelly Sarah Sanders’s defense of Nicholas Sandmann raised the ire of former Parkland student David Hogg and others Hours before Nicholas Sandmann — the MAGA-hat-wearing Covington Catholic High School student accused of taunting a Native American veteran in a controversial video — appeared on Wednesday’s Today broadcast to insist that his behavior was “not disrespectful,” he found support from […] Read more
By Katelyn Polantz Former national security adviser Michael Flynn could now be in limbo in the justice system through the fall. Bijan Kian, a lobbying associate of Flynn’s who is charged in a separate case and whom Flynn may testify against, has asked to move his criminal trial to September. He cited an “extraordinary” amount […] Read more
By: Sachin Nakrani Fulham’s Aboubakar Kamara has been arrested on suspicion of actual bodily harm following allegations of a fight at the club’s Motspur Park training ground that has also led to the striker being banned indefinitely from the venue. Metropolitan police were called to Motspur Park shortly after 5pm on Monday following reports of […] Read more
By Nguyen Dieu Tu Uyen Vietnam won’t devalue the dong to boost exports even as the U.S.-China tension starts to hurt Southeast Asia’s trade-reliant economies. “We will keep the dong stable,” Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said in an interview with Bloomberg TV’s Haslinda Amin. “That’s our policy.” Investors, both domestic and international, have […] Read more
By Tami Luhby The world’s billionaires are growing $2.5 billion richer every day, while the poorest half of the global population is seeing its net worth dwindle. Billionaires, who now number a record 2,208, have more wealth than ever before, according to an Oxfam International report published Monday. Since the global financial crisis a decade […] Read more
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is arriving in Moscow for a planned summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin on January 22. Abe and Putin have been meeting regularly as both Moscow and Tokyo continue to express hope for a long-awaited peace treaty to formally end the WWII, resolving among other problems the territorial issue of […] Read more
