It's Monday, which means that we're joined by Marcus Mabry, international business editor for The New York Times, to look at what's ahead this week.
Today marks the start of election week in Iraq. After a two-month delay and the banning of more than 500 candidates, voters across the country will go to the polls in the country's first election since 2005. But far more than the 325 seats at stake is the future of a successful democracy.
POSTED: Friday at 3 p.m. Anna Sale on the Friday shift.
We're following the breaking news reports today that New York Governor David Paterson is ending his reelection bid, and the news that handwriting will change on the Obamas' social calendar as Desiree Rogers resigns as White House Social Secretary. For our show on Monday, we're looking across the snowy horizon to see where the news next week will be.
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