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Investors look set to pile into the copper market on an unprecedented scale in the next few years

Mike Pence has called on the Justice Department to not prosecute Donald Trump for his handling of classified documents but refused to say he would pardon the former president if he won the White House. The former vice president told a CNN town hall in Des Moines, Iowa, that he viewed the handling of classified material as “a very serious matter” but told host Dana Bash that federal prosecutors should leave Mr Trump alone. “I would hope not, I really would,” he said when asked if the DoJ special counsel Jack Smith should indict Mr Trump over the documents found at his Mar-a-Lago estate. “I think it would be terribly divisive to the country at a time when the American people are hurting. This kind of action by the DoJ would only fuel further division in the country and send a terrible message to the wider world…I hope the DoJ thinks better of it and resolves this in a better way than an indictment,” he continued. Mr Pence told the audience that “no one is above the law” and admitted that he himself had no business having some classified documents at his home in Indiana. “I took full responsibility for it. I would hope there would be a way to move forward without the dramatic, drastic steps of indicting a former president of the United States.” Bash then directly asked Mr Pence, who earlier in the day officially launched his campaign for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, if as president he would pardon Mr Trump if he was convicted. “I don’t want to speak about hypotheticals. I am not sure I am going to be elected president of the United States but I believe we have a fighting chance,” he said. Mr Pence was also asked to respond to Mr Trump’s claim he would pardon anyone convicted of taking part in the violent January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol. “You know on January 6 I issued a tweet demanding that people leave the Capitol and end the violence and said those who didn’t should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law and I believe that today,” he said. “We cannot ever allow what happened on January 6 to ever happen again. I have no interest or intention of pardoning those who assaulted police officers or vandalized the capitol.” Read More Mike Pence news – live: At CNN town hall Pence says he won’t pardon Jan 6 protesters who called for his death Mike Pence isn’t even a contender for 2024. Why are we pretending? Pence accuses Trump of treating abortion issue as an ‘inconvenience’

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Australia’s major cities posted the largest annual rent increase on record in May, fueled by rapid population growth

The disgraced former crypto titan Do Kwon may spend most of his life behind bars, first in his

Japan’s economy expanded at a faster pace than initially estimated as businesses ramped up spending, a largely positive

Some of China’s biggest banks lowered rates on a range of deposit products, responding to the government’s call

Donald Trump’s legal team has been notified by the Justice Department that he is a target in a

Some of the most prominent legal minds in Texas have been recruited to argue in the impeachment trial

New Zealand’s busiest airport plans to double the fees it charges airlines over the next four years as

Ron Eliasek, a top software dealmaker at Bank of America Corp., is joining Jefferies Financial Group Inc., according

William Spriggs, the AFL-CIO chief economist and outspoken critic of how the profession has addressed racial disparities in