…And the World: We begin today in Spain, where a fractured election result leaves the leaders of that country scrambling to form a government. The incumbent center-right Popular Party of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy won the most seats, but lost its majority in Madrid. Rajoy’s party
UPDATE 7:07PM: To include more details on the special senate election described under The State of Things. …And the World: We begin today in France, where some brighter news emerged over the weekend as climate negotiators inked a pact to start an earnest march toward controling and
UPDATED 12/10/15 10:25AM: To correct a portion of “The Feds.” President Obama said Daesh’s “will not be” defeated militarily alone. A prior version omitted the “not.” The Feds: We begin today in California, where federal authorities have announced that the couple that shot up a
…And the World: We begin today in Argentina where the reign of the Kirchner family has come to a close. Opposition leader Mauracio Macri defeated Daniel Scioli, president Cristina Fernandez’s endorsed candidate by a narrow margin in a runoff. Fernandez, her late husband, Nestor Kirchner,
UPDATED 11/18/15 12:17AM: To reflect a correction. Young Latino candidates were winning in Haverhill as well as Chelsea, not just the latter. …And the World: We begin today in France, where investigators have now identified Abdelhamid Abaaoud as the mastermind of the coordinated attacks launched
We missed you last week! ’Twas an election week! …And the World: We begin today in Myanmar, also called Burma, where the National League for Democracy, the party led by activist and opposition leader Aung Sun Suu Kyi, rode an overwhelming wave of support to
…And the World: We begin today in Poland, which tossed out its center-right government today despite eight solid years of economic growth, in exchange for a right-wing populist one. Civic Platform, a pro-Europe, but somewhat moderate conservative party, has ruled since 2007, but suffered from
…And the World: We begin today in Canada, where polls opened and our neighbor to the north is prepared to vote in an historic election that could see the incumbent Conservative Party and its leader, Stephen Harper, turfed from office. The three month election, the
…And the World: We begin today in the Netherlands where the Dutch Safety Board has released its findings about the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 crash in Ukraine that killed all 298 aboard. The report says that based on wreckage patterns and sound analysis of the
…And the World: We begin today in Georgia—the US state—where a deal on the Trans-Pacific Partnership has been reached. The agreement, its backers say, will open up US products to dozens of Asian markets by felling tariffs. While President Barack Obama has insisted the deal