Bloomberg A government-backed candidate scored a razor-edge victory in the first round of North Macedonia’s presidential election and will advance to a runoff against an opposition figure who opposes the deal that opened the way to western integration. Stevo Pendarovski, the coordinator for the country’s accession talks to NATO, won 42.8 percent in the vote, according to the Electoral Commission, ...

Bloomberg Donald Trump returned from a long Easter weekend in Florida to a new political landscape, one where his administration is at last freed from Robert Mueller’s pursuit yet laid bare in all its dysfunction by the special counsel’s report. Trump arrived to his Mar-a-Lago resort with the swagger of a conquering hero, after Mueller reiterated that he had found ...

President Donald Trump’s conduct in office has been diminishing the moral capital of the United States for more than two years. The report by special counsel Robert Mueller puts a little of that capital back in the bank. Mueller’s 448-page account is an affirmation that the rule of law still exists in America, despite Trump’s rants and rages against his ...