Bloomberg Mitch McConnell is set to break Democrat Mike Mansfield’s record as longest-serving Senate party leader when he starts his 17th year as Republican leader — a mark of stability in a Capitol riven by chaos on the House side of the building. McConnell, 80, is now poised to serve as he did a dozen years ago: As a …

Bloomberg Bulgaria’s president gave a former ruling party the chance to create a new government and steer the nation out of a political crisis that may lead to the fifth elections in two years. President Rumen Radev tapped Nikolay Denkov, a chemistry professor nominated by the We Continue the Change party, to lead coalition talks. Denkov will have a week …

  Bloomberg New Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang offered effusive praise of Americans after stepping down as his nation’s top envoy to Washington, signalling that ties between the world’s biggest economies appear to be warming despite recent tensions over Taiwan. “I have been deeply impressed by so many hard-working, friendly and talented American people that I met,” Qin said in …