WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Friday said the European Union and the United Kingdom will remained “indispensable partners” to the U.S., as he tried to reassure Britons that the storied special relationship between Washington and London can withstand an impending and possibly messy divorce from Europe. In his first public reaction to the vote, […]

AYRSHIRE, Scotland — Donald Trump, in a closely watched visit to Scotland on Friday, hailed Britain’s vote to leave the European Union, drawing parallels to the anger driving his own presidential campaign. “I love to see people take their country back,” he told reporters at a news conference at one of his golf courses in […]

BRUSSELS (AP) — The EU must reinvent itself to survive after Britain’s vote to leave. It may be too late. The damning verdict of British voters was the worst setback to the EU since the germ of a more integrated Europe first took shape in the ruins left by World War II. And it threatens […]

“Damn! A bad day for Europe.” — Sigmar Gabriel, Germany’s vice chancellor and economy minister, on Twitter. ___ “I will do everything I can as prime minister to steady the ship over the coming weeks and months, but I do not think it would be right for me to try to be the captain that […]