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Commentator Mickey Edwards says the Republicans should be putting all their energy into ensuring that the GOP maintains control of Congress. He says while a division of power between the White House and Capitol Hill would seem to lead to gridlock, the fact is that in the last two years it has made for compromise and progress.

Former First Minister Nicola Sturgeon was arrested and then later released in connection with an investigation into the Scottish National Party's finances.

Former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang's Forward Party is preparing to put up its first candidates in 2024.

To those who closely follow the voter ID wars, Hans von Spakovsky is a household name, one of the nation's leading and controversial crusaders against voter fraud. So it was news that the Republican lawyer failed to get a second term on the electoral board of Virginia's largest county.

Tea Party Republicans are trying to make a comeback and have found one candidate to get behind for the Senate in 2016 — Florida's Ron DeSantis, a former JAG Corps lawyer and Yale baseball captain.

China's ruling party kicks off a national congress on Sunday in which Xi Jinping is expected to secure a third term as party boss and chief of the military.

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On Sunday, Vladimir Putin won the Russian presidential election by a landslide. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly was in Moscow to witness the late-night celebrations of another six years of Putin in power.

Commentator Andrea Bernstein [BERN-stine] notes that one of the ways the just-concluded GOP convention differed from its 1992 predecessor was its position on homosexuality. In 1992, she says, one speaker after another took pot-shots at gays and lesbians; this time around, the GOP's stand on gays in the military, same-sex marriage and other issues were kept in the platform and off the stage.

Across the U.S., locals are hosting meals designed to help the community meet the refugees who live among them as neighbors, and to break barriers by breaking bread together.