In Chile, the Council responsible for drafting the Constitution will have an ultra-conservative majority. In Canada, fires are raging in the province of Alberta, which declared a state of emergency this weekend.
In the United States, eight people are dead after a man opened fire outside a shopping mall in a suburb of Dallas, killing at least eight people. The New York Times reports that a Democrat, who had been asking the local Congress for more gun control, had told the local leader of the "Far-Right Death Squad"