Donald Trump has seized on an opening to sound his frequent argument that imposing huge tariffs on foreign goods would amount to an economic elixir — one he claims would raise enormous sums for the government, protect U.S. firms from overseas competition and prod foreign companies to open factories in the United States.

Former President Donald Trump is refusing to say whether he’s spoken with Russian President Vladimir Putin since Trump left the White House.

Bloomberg News is apologizing for a premature story written last week about the prisoner exchange involving the United States and Russia and says it has disciplined the journalists involved.

New restrictions placed on journalists in Russia have impeded but not muzzled reporting about the country and its war in Ukraine.

Britain’s highest court says a business executive who was investigated over suspected fraud had a right to keep his identity private.

The entry of Bloomberg into the presidential race also raises potential conflict-of-interest questions involving his extensive business holdings, which go well beyond his news service. At his news service, Micklethwait said, Bloomberg reporters will still cover polls, policies and how the Bloomberg campaign is faring, much as it does for all candidates. To anyone who thinks the news service shouldn't cover Bloomberg at all, he said Bloomberg News “has handled these conflicts before — and proved our independence." David Shipley, who has overseen Bloomberg Opinion as its senior executive editor, is leaving to join the campaign, Micklethwait said. It’s a different conversation than when he served as mayor of New York, Painter said.