With the election of a new French president this month, the wealthy in France are suddenly scrambling for places to stash their money for a while, including in the United States.

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Big Deal: Voting With Their Wallets

When Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador lost the presidential election by a sliver of a percent in July 2006, he cried fraud. His supporters took to the streets, and the most fervent blocked the capital city’s major boulevard for weeks. Read full article > >

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Lopez Obrador tries again in Mexico

CAIRO — Former Egyptian prime minister and presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq sought Saturday to dispel his authoritarian image by vowing to uphold democratic principles and respect all segments of society. Read full article > >

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Egyptian presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq pledges not to be new Mubarak

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff on Friday vetoed 12 articles of a controversial forest bill approved by Congress last month, which was promoted by the powerful agriculture lobby but slammed by environmentalists.

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Brazil president vetoes part of forest bill

The backgrounds of Mitt Romney and President Obama cause them to mirror each other in many ways, and both men face the specter of longstanding prejudices that no ad, slogan or speech may be able to dispel.

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Campaign Memo: Outsider Status for Obama and Romney

Vice President Biden, speaking Friday to families and friends of military personnel killed in action, gave a powerful retelling of the death of his wife and daughter 40 years ago — saying he’d realized then how grief might push a person to suicide. Read full article > >

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Biden shares tales of loss with families, friends of military casualties

Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood calls allies to back its presidential candidate in a likely run-off against Hosni Mubarak’s last PM to “save” the uprising.

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Key Egypt candidate seeks allies

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has vetoed some of the articles in the controversial forest code, which environmentalists say could speed up deforestation.

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Brazil forest bill part-vetoed

On May 19, 1992, as the presidential campaign season was heating up, Vice President Dan Quayle delivered a family-values speech that came to define him nearly as much as his spelling talents. Speaking at the Commonwealth Club of California, he chided Murphy Brown — the fictional 40-something, divorced news anchor played by Candice Bergen on a CBS sitcom — for her decision to have a child outside of marriage.  Read full article > >

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20 years later, it turns out Dan Quayle was right about Murphy Brown and unmarried moms

Political blogs went to pot on Friday. The Internet is buzzing after the Washingtonian published a review of Washington Post associate editor David Maraniss’s forthcoming book “Barack Obama: The Story,” including an excerpt about President Obama’s high school clique and their favorite pastime. Read full article > >

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The Choom Gang: President Obama’s pot-smoking high school days detailed in Maraniss book

Gently, gently, the librarian opens the first of the five books displayed on the large wooden table, and age seems to rise up from the pages like a wavy distortion above heated pavement. It’s an English volume, “A New System of Modern Geography,” in its first American printing in 1794, bound in brown leather with marbled paper, and gold gilt along the top edge. On an inside right page is the neatly formal signature of its most famous owner — the first president of the United States. Read full article > >

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Mount Vernon replicates George Washington’s personal library

How the future president liked to get high.

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Barry Obama: Pot Connoisseur

President Francois Hollande defends his decision to end France’s military mission in Afghanistan early, during an unannounced visit to Kabul.

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Hollande defends Afghan exit plan

Unlike past presidents at this stage in the campaign, President Obama has not hesitated to engage his rival.

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Obama Leaps Into Direct Attacks

In an election year in which the economy ranks as Americans’ top concern, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney holds significant advantages over President Obama among white voters who are struggling financially and buffeted by job loss, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll . Read full article > >

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Romney holds key advantages among financially struggling white voters