FROM THE WASHINGTON POST: Election forecasters look for ways to make sense of a chaotic political year

Campaign  2016

Although most prediction models indicate that Hillary Clinton will win, two foresee a Trump White House. The modelers stand by their projections, though with varying degrees of confidence because Donald Trump is a wild-card candidate. 

• By Dan Balz
• The Take

• The Fix: Democratic rhetoric could be desensitizing voters

Trump’s message at black Detroit church met with politeness, skepticism

The event — at which the GOP nominee swayed to gospel music, accepted a Jewish prayer shawl and told congregants that he was there to listen to their concerns — provided a jarring contrast to a hard-edged candidacy that has included racially tinged appeals resonating primarily with white Republicans.

• By Jenna Johnson and Vanessa Williams

• The Fix: How to avoid alienating minority voters

A young lion on the outskirts of Nairobi. (AFP/Getty)

Near Kenya’s capital, escaped lions from wildlife refuge unnerve humans

The collision between people and wild animals is nothing new in much of Africa, but Nairobi represents the extreme difficulty of trying to preserve wildlife while an urban population booms.

• By Kevin Sieff

Mother Teresa officially declared a Catholic saint

The pope called the tiny nun who cared for the destitute a model for a Catholic Church that goes to the peripheries to find wounded souls.

• By Nicole Winfield | AP
• 1 hour ago

• Analysis from the archives: Some critics don't consider the nun a saint

Cheers — and ambivalence — in the city the nun made famous