November 9, 2022

Republicans picked up momentum in their drive for the House majority, but Democrats held crucial seats, dashing projections of a blood bath, and claimed a key Senate seat in Pennsylvania.

There were the usual glitches, some ginned up into misinformation. But voting was largely free of major incidents of intimidation or disruption.

The pandemic, climate change and growing conflict are forcing a seismic shift in global migration. In few places is that more clear than a perilous crossing called the Darién Gap.

Republican hopes of an emphatic repudiation of President Biden had morphed into a district-by-district slog by Wednesday. But the party still had multiple paths to a House majority.

Companies, investors and global policymakers are trying to divine when the Chinese government will drop its strict restrictions. It comes down to one man: the country’s top leader, Xi Jinping.