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The African National Congress risks losing control of key cities in crucial municipal elections this year.

Christian Reconstructionism, a little-known movement to rebuild society on biblical law, can often shape US debates over religion, politics and education.

Ukraine may need a major, system-level change or crisis in Russia to regain any lost territories.

Initially, the two gulf states were in alignment over Yemen’s civil war. But the Arab coalition’s unity has long since gone.

The president has sued multiple media companies. He may care less about winning in court than intimidating news outlets, suggest two media scholars.

This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The middle-of-the-night kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro shocked the world on Saturday. Military helicopters bombed Caracas, Venezuela’s capital, as U.S. special forces breached Maduro’s residence, captured him, and flew him to New York to stand trial on unproven charges of narcoterrorism. […]

Minneapolis mourns Renee Nicole Good, ICE’s immorality hits a new low, and the National Portrait Gallery quietly edits out Trump’s ugly past.

President Yoweri Museveni is in the running for his ninth term for a record 45 years.