©2016 Bloomberg News O4KHT96JIJXY (Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama’s decision after the terrorist attack in Brussels to press on with his trip this week to Cuba and Argentina, including the colorful cultural events and elements of a family vacation, has come at a cost. Some Republicans, who had been critical

©2015 Bloomberg News NVPS986VDKHS (Bloomberg) — Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said Sunday on state television that U.S. President Barack Obama promised his country new models of defensive weapons amid a cease-fire with pro-Russian separatists. Obama said he approved supplying counter-battery systems to the debt-troubled Ukraine, Poroshenko said, according to a

©2015 Bloomberg News NNJ8N66JTSEM (Bloomberg Politics) — On Saturday night, former President George W. Bush made remarks at the spring meeting of the Republican Jewish Coalition behind closed doors, but some of his message trickled out. He argued against President Barack Obama’s planned course of action on Iran and expressed skepticism over the pending

©2015 Bloomberg News NUFL956KLVRG (Bloomberg Politics) — Martin O’Malley is no fan of Donald Trump. The former Maryland governor and Democratic presidential candidate called out Trump’s “xenophobia” and even took aim at his Democratic presidential rivals for not speaking out loudly against it in a Wednesday interview on Bloomberg’s With

©2015 Bloomberg News NSJ9G0SYF01U (Bloomberg) — Venture capitalists and entrepreneurs will gather at the White House Tuesday as part of President Barack Obama’s bid to increase gender and racial diversity among funders and startups. With 3 percent of startups backed by venture capital led by women and 1 percent by

©2015 Bloomberg News NQUUGI6KLVR5 (Bloomberg Politics) — Two Republican presidential candidates with family ties to Cuba are vowing to block the appointment of a the first U.S. ambassador to the Communist island nation in more than 50 years. With their vows to place a parliamentary hold on any nominees for

©2015 Bloomberg View NQU7PP6S972C (Bloomberg View) — President Barack Obama has plans to expand workers’ entitlement to overtime pay. The move may be good politics — putting Republicans in an awkward position and making nice with Democrats opposed to his free-trade agenda. But it isn’t going to do workers much

©2015 Bloomberg News NQD85Z6K50YG (Bloomberg) — Labor productivity would dwindle as workers wilt in the heat. Summers in Illinois would feel like a Louisiana swamp. Epic downpours and surging seas of the future would leave $5 trillion in losses. And worsening air quality would result in 57,000 premature deaths in

©2015 Bloomberg News NPP5EC6JTSEA (Bloomberg) — Facing a pivotal Supreme Court decision on the future of his signature health-care law, President Barack Obama said Tuesday that attacks on Obamacare should end now that millions of Americans depend on it for insurance coverage. “There’s something, I have to say, that’s just

©2015 Bloomberg View NOOHID6S9729 (Bloomberg View) — The Israeli government is worried the Obama administration will allow a U.N. conference this week to adopt a resolution that could compel Israel to acknowledge its nuclear arsenal. At issue is a proposal at the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty Review Conference that would empower