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The Saudi government is seeking to negotiate financial settlements with detainees that would enable some of those held in a purported anti-corruption crackdown to be freed, according to people with

A debate between two senators over whether Republican tax cuts are aimed at helping the rich escalated into raised voices, interruptions, a banging gavel and a decidedly un-senatorial cry of "bull

The U.K. must make concessions on the Brexit bill and give assurances on the Irish border by early next month if talks are to advance to trade this year, European Union President Donald Tusk said.

Michael Block, chief strategist at Rhino Trading Partners, and Bloomberg's Michael McKee, discuss the possible impact of U.S. tax reform plans on financial markets. They speak on "Bloomberg Daybreak:

The White House asked Congress for $44 billion in hurricane aid, including funds designated for Texas and Florida, while most of Puerto Rico’s needs would be addressed in a future request.

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has lost his 37-year stranglehold on political power, after military generals took power and pressured him to step down. His tenure in office included allegations of

Is Theresa May going to back down from her week-old attempt to write the date of Brexit into law? Justice Secretary David Lidington seemed to hint she might yesterday, but Friday her spokesman pushed

The Senate tax plan encountered its first outright Republican opposition this week, from a senator whose concerns might foreshadow the biggest business challenge ahead for the proposal.

Lebanon’s Saad Hariri will meet President Emmanuel Macron at noon on Saturday at the Elysee Palace in Paris, the French leader’s office said in an emailed statement.

Nations working to salvage a mammoth Pacific-rim trade pact that the U.S. abandoned need to move forward before electoral politics get in the way, according to Japan’s chief negotiator.

The change would limit the break to gains on sales of assets held three years or more

White House chief economist Kevin Hassett says the U.S. economy is poised to deliver a third straight quarter of at least 3 percent growth, the longest such streak since 2005, and a pace that could be

Warnings that U.S. withdrawal would unravel the Paris climate accord are coming true at the annual UN conference on global warming wrapping up today in Bonn, Germany.

U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May is stuck in a Brexit stand-off as European leaders set her a deadline to give ground on the exit bill and the future of the Irish border if talks are to move on to

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe could be impeached if he doesn’t bow to pressure to resign, according to four officials close to mediation efforts aimed at ending a political standoff in the

The organizer of the violent white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, has lost his verified status on Twitter, along with several other prominent white nationalists and far-right

The former Trump campaign chief made huge payments to home improvement companies when his renovation work was estimated at far less.

Prospects for public congressional hearings featuring the president’s son, Donald Trump Jr., and son-in-law Jared Kushner have grown increasingly uncertain.