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Puritanical Democratic former president seeks job with louche Republican current president — but just to save the world.

A party that will do anything to beat Trump except try to woo his voters.

This year, I felt compelled to travel to Mogadishu, the city of my father’s youth. Along the way, I saw order, puritanism, fear and villages without men.

Gunmen fired bullets and rockets on Egyptian police officers and security officials as they drove toward what was believed to be an Islamist hide-out.

Here are the winners from the thousands of submissions in my Trump poetry contest.

Andrej Babis, the billionaire leader of an anti-establishment party, is expected to become prime minister of the Czech Republic after mainstream parties fall short.

A brewing Republican vs. Republican fight could test whether the anti-incumbent insurgency backed by Stephen K. Bannon becomes a credible national movement.

Robert Zimmer, head of the University of Chicago, makes the educator’s case for free speech.

Gabrielle Deydier’s plaintive account and sociological study exposes the many ways the obese face censure and insensitivity.

The Astros have a rough history of closing out playoff series, even with late leads, while the Yankees’ last Game 7 was part of their 2004 A.L.C.S. collapse.

After Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy held a cabinet meeting Saturday, he announced a decision to oust the Catalan leader and to call new elections in the independence-minded region.

Senator John McCain, the irrepressible Arizona Republican, has long felt free to speak his mind. But since his cancer diagnosis, he has been a vocal defender of national ideals.

Charlen Evans, who has been hearing-impaired her whole life, got a cochlear implant in 2012. She has since returned to college in hopes of someday working with deaf students.

A scientist who worked for the chemical industry now shapes policy on hazardous chemicals. Within the E.P.A., there is fear that public health is at risk. (At right, a signing ceremony for new rules on toxic chemicals.)

The decision outraged medical professionals, rights groups and others who took to social media to call it an “insult” and “a sick joke.”

The agency says it won’t accept individual tax returns that don’t meet requirements under the Affordable Care Act.

The Environmental Protection Agency published toxic chemicals it will evaluate first under a new law. Here is a look at those chemicals, how they are used and the health threats.

Colin Kaepernick’s decision to sit or take a knee during the national anthem exploded into a national conversation about race. Here, high school students tell us why they sit or kneel during the national anthem or the Pledge of Allegiance — or why they stand and participate.

An exhibit at the Frans Hals Museum in Haarlem, the Netherlands, will show that many paintings from the Dutch Golden Age “have a joke as their very core.”