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Facing a nascent administration investigation, Alex Soros privately pledged that the Open Society Foundations would back down only “over my dead body.”

The Trump administration objects to paying out $4 billion appropriated by Congress.

European companies, a major source of U.S. medicines, are hopeful that their investments and trade deals with the U.S. will spare them from President Trump’s latest tariff barrage.

The president’s pressure on the Justice Department to charge one of his highest-profile retribution targets could have profound consequences.

The move came after the president intensified his pressure campaign on the Justice Department in recent days, publicly demanding that top officials prosecute Mr. Comey.

Federal officials said the gunman intended to shoot immigration agents, calling it a “tragic irony” that three detainees were struck, one fatally.

In a brief filed with the court, former Fed chairs and U.S. Treasury secretaries cautioned of erosion in public confidence in the Fed’s independence.

Members of a Senate panel described a haphazard working and living environment that involved transferring sensitive information to servers “without any verified security controls.”

President Trump has shown dwindling interest in mediating a peace accord, joining European “security guarantees” for Ukraine or providing aid and intelligence to the Ukrainians.

Adelita Grijalva’s victory in a special election for a House seat in Arizona appears to give backers of a so-called discharge petition enough signatures to compel action.