published Jul 11, 2018 6:39:27 PM, by Erik Larson (Bloomberg) — The Trump administration is now claiming the upper hand in legal challenges to its prohibition on transgender Americans in the military thanks to the the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision upholding the travel ban against several predominantly Muslim nations.

published Jul 11, 2018 8:00:00 PM, by Tim Loh and Rajesh Kumar Singh (Bloomberg) — The big bright spot for U.S. coal miners is located halfway around the world. India almost tripled its imports of the rock from America in the first quarter from a year earlier, helping fuel its

published Jul 9, 2018 1:00:13 AM, by Mark Whitehouse (Bloomberg Opinion) — In the eyes of the West, Russia does a lot of things wrong. It meddles in elections. It poisons people on foreign soil. It rides roughshod over free speech and democratic values. But according to one Western economist,

published Jul 10, 2018 3:44:46 PM, by Mark Gongloff (Bloomberg Opinion) — Today’s agenda Brett Kavanaugh raises questions from the right, the left and the center. Boris Johnson’s ignominious retreat gives Theresa May a chance to make her Brexit plan work. China will dictate the terms when Tesla opens a

published Jul 10, 2018 3:45:19 PM, by Joel Rosenblatt (Bloomberg) — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement was sued by a civil liberties group claiming one of its contractors transported a group of detained immigrants in brutal conditions that had some feeling like they were going to die. The American Civil

published Jul 9, 2018 2:31:42 PM, by Ben Brody (Bloomberg) — Alphabet Inc. and Apple Inc. are facing questions about their privacy practices from four top Republican members of Congress as tech companies fail to assuage lawmakers’ concerns. In letters released Monday, the chairmen of the House Energy and Commerce

published Jul 9, 2018 5:32:45 PM, by Kartikay Mehrotra (Bloomberg) — A federal judge in Sacramento dismissed most of a lawsuit by the Trump administration attacking California’s trio of sanctuary laws aimed at protecting the state’s undocumented and immigrant community. Judge John Mendez agreed with most of the state’s request

published Jul 9, 2018 12:31:27 PM, by Barry Ritholtz (Bloomberg Opinion) — Each year, Vanguard Group releases its annual review of the state of retirement savings in America, focusing on the 401(k)s, 403(b)s and other defined-contribution plans that allow people to set money aside for retirement, and in many cases

published Jul 8, 2018 3:01:00 PM, by Yumi Teso, George Lei and Srinivasan Sivabalan (Bloomberg) — Emerging-market currencies declined for a sixth straight week after the U.S. fired the first shot in a trade dispute between the world’s biggest economies. Equities fell for a fourth week. The MSCI Emerging-Market Currency

published Jul 8, 2018 3:00:00 PM, by Jungah Lee (Bloomberg) — South Korea’s blueprint for railroad links through North Korea to China and Russia falls well short of Kim Jong Un’s vision for developing his impoverished nation, according to a defector who provides economic research to the government in Seoul.