Donald Trump denied sexually assaulting writer E. Jean Carroll in a video deposition that was played for jurors in a New York trial of her civil battery lawsuit against him, the closest they’ll get to his first-hand response to the claim after he decided not to testify in person.
Mexico is making progress resolving Canadian companies’ concerns about the Latin American country’s nationalist energy policy, and Ottawa sees no current need to escalate the dispute, its top trade official said.
All it took was a few words from a French minister on the radio to send relations between Rome and Paris into a tailspin – again.
(Bloomberg) — Billionaire Harlan Crow paid private-school tuition for US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s grandnephew, ProPublica reported, adding to a string of revelations about benefits received by Thomas from the Republican megadonor.
The National Football League is being investigated by California and New York over allegations that it fostered discrimination and harassment in the workplace.
Senate Democrats charged Thursday that House Republicans’ debt limit demands would tip the US into a recession through a forced choice of either sharp spending cuts or a federal default.
(Bloomberg) — Chile’s government plans to resume talks on key reforms with local political parties next week after Sunday’s election for Constitutional Council, Finance Minister Mario Marcel said.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz threw his weight behind calls for the African Union to become a permanent member of the Group of 20 to give it more say in efforts to tackle global issues like climate change.
China’s embassy in Switzerland has voiced “strong discontent” over a move of the Swiss parliament’s lower house to intensify its relations with Taiwanese lawmakers.
Senator Elizabeth Warren is pressing former First Republic Bank chief executive officer Michael Roffler for information on executives’ compensation and their lobbying for more lenient banking regulations in the wake of the bank’s failure earlier this week.
