HOLIDAYS WEEKENDS

An exhibition at the Baltimore Museum of Art finds political power in dizzying patterns from the Kuba Kingdom — located in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Democrats have placed their chips as they try to unseat Republicans — but not on Russia red. Meanwhile, a liberal billionaire outsider has built a massive organization intent on impeaching Trump.

Also this week, dozens of lawmakers ask Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to look into the troubled Public Service Loan Forgiveness program.

Home to 11,000 airmen and their families, the base sustained catastrophic damage when Hurricane Michael came through Florida earlier this month. Residents don’t know if they will ever go back.

For generations, the Khashoggi family has had close ties to the Saudi royals. Over a long career, Jamal Khashoggi was a loyalist who worked for the monarchy — and a critic who urged reform.

The tentative deal would compensate current and former female students who were patients of former USC gynecologist George Tyndall. He has been accused by about 500 women of sexual misconduct.

Microcameras installed in public bathrooms for surreptitious filming are an everyday concern for women. Police say the number of “illegal filming” crimes sharply increased between 2011 and 2017.

The intelligence agencies said the threat of foreign interference persists; DOJ unsealed a criminal case against a Russian accused of being the top accountant for Moscow’s disinformation effort.

President Trump’s former campaign chairman continues cooperating with the Justice Department after his plea agreement, but it isn’t clear when prosecutors might be finished with him.

One official said the local response was on par with a “war footing” as emergency workers tended to the dead and injured among crowds celebrating a Hindu festival.

The European Space Agency’s BepiColombo will take seven years to reach the innermost planet in our solar system, where temperatures at the surface can reach 800 degrees Fahrenheit.

Two rules have forced closure of all but one Planned Parenthood center in the state. Abortion-rights supporters say it is an example of an “abortion desert” that could result if Roe is overturned.

A new study looks at how tuberculosis has traveled the world — and the lessons that can be learned about treatment of drug-resistant forms.

It took just over one-third of a year for the Scottish cyclist to cover some 18,000 miles on her bike, enduring everything from flat tires and worn-out gear to being wary of bears in Canada.

The Dave Meyers-directed visual is a kaleidoscopic view into Scott’s psychedelic, whiplashing Astroworld, with an assist from Drake — and the entire city he’s from.

The tests are traumatic and unreliable, the United Nations said in a statement this week. In Afghanistan, there’s a campaign to bring the practice to a halt.

The rest of the country will vote Saturday. But one journalist says that after a gunman pulled off a surprise attack in Kandahar, “there’s a huge security vacuum, people are very nervous and worried.”

In August, immigration officials hauled off 150 workers from a northeast Texas plant — one of ICE’s largest operations in a decade. Now the employer is pushing back.

Israel’s Supreme Court said Lara Alqasem should be allowed to study in the country despite her past association with a student group that supports boycotting Israel.

As the national Democratic party shifts to the left, control of the House in November likely rests on moderate Democrats beating Republicans in red districts Trump carried handily in 2016.

Three companies — StarKist, Chicken of the Sea and Bumble Bee — are accused by the government of conspiring to keep their canned tuna prices high.

The Justice Department issued subpoenas to at least six of the state’s eight dioceses seeking private files and records following revelations that more than 1,000 minors were abused, NPR has learned.

Boston’s pitchers held the Astros to just five hits, and Red Sox third baseman Rafael Devers continued his surprising postseason with a three-run home run as the Red Sox won the ALCS.

Hundreds of people have arrived at a Guatemalan town just across the border from Mexico. It’s uncertain how Trump would block the group from crossing at a legal port of entry.

The Survey of American Fears reveals most Americans are preoccupied with the fear of corrupt government officials, for the fourth year running. Other anxieties include pollution and global warming.

The column’s publication is “kind of an acknowledgement to ourselves … that we don’t have much hope that we’re going to be able to edit this one with him,” the Post editorial page editor told NPR.

Almost 90 percent of Californians do not have earthquake insurance. That worries state officials and quake experts, who are renewing the push to boost insurance coverage.

NPR reported on the troubled Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, and dozens of aggrieved student borrowers wrote in to share their stories.

As rescues continue after Hurricane Michael, officials expressed frustration at people who didn’t evacuate. But experts say people’s decisions to stay are almost always carefully considered.

“I have never seen anything like this,” said tree surgeon Hiroyuki Wada. Two typhoons that recently struck the country are a likely cause of the sudden flowering.

A new Pew poll shows that there are few issues that Democrats and Republicans agree need to be fixed — and even then, they often don’t agree on how to fix them.