Luigi Di Maio, leader of Italy’s anti-establishment Five Star Movement, said he had proposed Giuseppe Conte, a Florence law professor with no political experience, as candidate for the premiership to President Sergio Mattarella.

Barack and Michelle Obama are embarking on an unusual post-White House career: TV producers.

Burundian voters backed sweeping constitutional changes including extending presidential terms to seven years, setting the stage for Pierre Nkurunziza to continue ruling the East African country until 2034.

Syria won’t accept a Russian plan for a new constitution that would dilute the powers of President Bashar al-Assad, in a setback for Kremlin efforts to negotiate an end to the seven-year civil war.

Even before U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced his new plan for curbing Iran’s nuclear ambitions, America’s oldest ally in the West -- the U.K. -- declared that it won’t work.

Former West Virginia coal executive Don Blankenship said he’ll mount a third-party bid for the U.S. Senate after losing in the state’s Republican primary, a move that if allowed by the courts could upend GOP attempts to unseat Democrat Joe Manchin.

Venezuela’s newly re-elected President Nicolas Maduro woke up on Monday to a flurry of international threats and few congratulations.

China’s financial-services industry could be opened further to U.S. companies as part of a wider bargain to ease trade tensions among the world’s two-largest economies, White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said.

Italy isn't going to leave the European Union. That's what makes it so dangerous.

Big investors are starting to take a deeper look at the people who handle their money as the #MeToo movement rages. One of Silicon Valley’s top wealth-management firms just showed what can happen next.

Jonathan Bernstein’s morning links.

The divide between red and blue states starts in the cradle. 

Donald Trump Jr. stayed out of his father’s Washington to run the family business, but he keeps getting drawn back into Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into the 2016 presidential campaign

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear an unusual death penalty case that could have outsize implications for businesses operating in Oklahoma.

Prime Minister Theresa May said her new proposal for a Brexit compromise, which would keep the U.K. tied to some European customs rules to prevent a hard border on the island of Ireland, would be limited in time.

Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un will meet next month to negotiate a deal that could avert nuclear war. But the ultimate success of any agreement hinges on someone else: China’s President Xi Jinping.

Yields should not be allowed to rise any higher. 

Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela is bidding to join the ranks of presidents for life. His biggest obstacle is the grinding economic crisis that he created.

But it’s a job for the feds, not state and local government.

China is planning to scrap all limits on the number of children a family can have, according to people familiar with the matter, in what would be a historic end to a policy that spurred countless human-rights abuses and left the world’s second-largest economy short of workers.