Bloomberg Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team scored a significant victory as President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman pleaded guilty to conspiring against the US and agreed to cooperate in the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. The former campaign aide, Paul Manafort, admitted to a decade of crimes related to his work as a consultant for pro-Russia politicians ...

Bloomberg After Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban was castigated in the European Parliament this week over what he calls his “illiberal democracy,” the very public rebuke was hailed as a breakthrough for Europe. For opponents of the continent’s embrace of populism, finally there was a united show of strength against a leader who has railed against the European Union’s core, ...

Bloomberg Leftist presidential candidate Fernando Haddad jumped in the first Datafolha opinion poll published since he officially replaced ex-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva as the Workers’ Party candidate on Tuesday. In the poll published on Friday evening Haddad rose to 13 percent of vote intentions, up from 9 percent in the last poll conducted on September 10. Far-right ex-Army ...