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President Trump counts several world leaders as his fans, many of them authoritarians, nationalists or populists. Some may struggle to stay as friendly with the White House if he loses the election.

President Biden is the latest in a long line of presidents to place himself in the middle of a Middle East conflict. U.S. efforts have seen failed starts, wrong turns and dead ends, but some progress.

Ex-President Trump says abortion ban should be left to states. Vatican issues document that lays out what it calls "threats to human dignity." Missouri governor denies clemency for man on death row.

Arab and Muslim voters in Michigan, a reliably Democratic voting bloc, backed a Republican for president for the first time in 2024. Now, some are expressing concern about President Trump's rhetoric.

Israel can't intervene without inflaming fundamentalist elements; Syrian refugees have cost Turkey about $2 billion so far; and the civil war has exacerbated political tensions inside Lebanon. Host Rachel Martin speaks with commentators from three of Syria's neighbors.

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men are exempt from military service in Israel, but a proposed law would change that. It would be a major social shift that is part of the larger question concerning the role of the ultra-Orthodox in Israeli society.

NPR's Lourdes Garcia Navarro has been there to witness and report on a great many of those moments in recent years. She's about to leave Jerusalem and come home to the U.S. Navarro talks to host Scott Simon about the impressions she's collected during her time in the field.

Robert Siegel speaks with Susan Glasser, editor-in-chief of Foreign Policy magazine, about Russia. Speakers at both the Republican and Democratic conventions brought up America's relations with the country.

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to David Wheeler, whose son was killed in the Sandy Hook school shooting, about families settling a lawsuit against Remington Arms, the company that made the murder weapon.

Israel's refusal to recognize liberal Reform and Conservative streams of Judaism has long been a point of tension with American Jews.