©2015 Bloomberg News NV58996JIJV3 (Bloomberg) — President Vladimir Putin, determined to strengthen Russia’s only military outpost in the Middle East, is preparing to launch unilateral airstrikes against Islamic State from inside Syria if the U.S. rejects his proposal to join forces, two people familiar with the matter said. Putin’s preferred

©2016 Bloomberg News O2XBDE6JTSEF (Bloomberg) — Third time’s a charm? Leading fundraiser Bobbie Kilberg, who had first supported New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, then former Florida Governor Jeb Bush for the Republican presidential nomination, is now backing Florida Senator Marco Rubio.  “The landscape is becoming pretty clear,” she told Bloomberg in