American forces are unlikely to be able to end a decades-long insurgency in Africa’s most populous country, despite President Trump’s order, officials said. Read full article

The flashpoint was the Justice Department’s failure to turn over seized communications from a confidant of Mr. Comey’s, Daniel C. Richman, a law professor at Columbia University. Read full article

New York will have its first Muslim mayor. Virginia will have its first female governor, and, for the first time in U.S. history, a Muslim woman will hold statewide office. Read full article

The race for Minneapolis mayor tested the appeal of democratic socialist policies, drawing comparisons to Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral bid in New York City. Read full article

Millions of low-income Americans will see staggering cuts and delays to their food stamps this month due to the government shutdown. Tony Romm, an economic policy reporter at The New York Times, walks us through the last several weeks of chaos around SNAP benefits. Read full article

Dick Cheney was once the face of hard-line conservatism. Then hard-line conservatism changed. Read full article

The agency had been planning to eliminate more than 2,000 positions before the lapse in federal funding, but a federal judge blocked the move. Read full article

First, Texas redistricted. Other states followed, and now California. Some legal experts say it’s a crisis: “The wheels are coming off the car right now.” Read full article

Venezuela has an arsenal of Russian weapons and armed civilian cells that could mount a guerrilla war. But a coup against President Nicolás Maduro? Don’t count on it. Read full article