On Air Force One over the weekend, President Donald Trump attacked a female reporter, calling her "piggy." Bloombert's White House correspondent, Catherine Lucey, began asking Trump why he was continuing to resist the release of the Department of Justice's remaining Jeffrey Epstein evidence, "if there's nothing incriminating" about him in the investigation files around the deceased sex offender. Trump replied, "Quiet! Quiet, piggy!" The story about Trump's links to Epstein has persisted, as have questions about his comment to the reporter. During the Thursday briefing, a reporter asked White H...
Sechs Jahre in Düsseldorf Ex-Fortuna-Spieler Dieter Herzog ist totTrauer im deutschen Fußball: Dieter Herzog, einer der Weltmeister von 1974, ist tot. Der frühere Düsseldorfer Flügelspieler absolvierte über 200 Spiele für die Fortuna. Der deutsche Fußball trauert um den früheren Weltmeister Dieter Herzog. Der ehemalige Flügelstürmer verstarb nach Angaben seines Ex-Klubs Bayer Leverkusen bereits im Wochenverlauf mit 79 Jahren. Zu den Umständen seines Todes lagen bis zum Donnerstagabend keine Informationen vor. Herzog gehörte bei der Heim-WM 1974 in Deutschland zum Aufgebot des späteren Titelgew...
The leaders of Mexico and Argentina are joining counterparts from China, Russia and the United States in skipping this weekend's G20 summit in South Africa. Their absences raise questions about the annual summit's standing and the ability of members to reach key agreements. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum will not attend the Johannesburg meeting of the world's leading industrialized and emerging economies, her office said on Thursday. The leftist leader, who rarely travels abroad, plans to spend the weekend at domestic events. Sheinbaum attended last year's G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro but...
The initial response by the British government to the coronavirus pandemic in early 2020 did "too little, too late," according to the report by a public inquiry into its handling published on Thursday. The inquiry, chaired by former judge Heather Hallett, found that chaos at the heart of the then Conservative government and a failure to take the coronavirus seriously potentially cost 23,000 lives in England alone during the first wave of the pandemic. Tho national government, along with the devolved governments in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, failed to act in time, Hallett found. "Had...