• Separately, the Alabama Republican Party offered unqualified support to the Senate candidate Roy Moore.

The uncounted: A Times investigation.

• The U.S.-led battle against the Islamic State is the most precise air campaign in history. But many more Iraqi civilians are being killed than the official count suggests.

Over 18 months, two reporters visited the sites of nearly 150 airstrikes across northern Iraq, interviewing hundreds of witnesses, survivors and family members. They also spoke to U.S. officials directing the campaign.

• Their report, the focus of this week’s Times Magazine, concludes that one in five strikes caused civilian deaths, a rate more than 31 times what the coalition acknowledged.

Mistrial in Menendez case.

• Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey can return to Washington after jurors in his federal corruption trial were unable to reach a verdict.

“To those who were digging my political grave so that they could jump into my seat, I know who you are and I won’t forget you,” he said on Thursday.

• The Democrat, who has been in the Senate for 12 years, is up for re-election next year.

The “Crocodile” could replace Mugabe.

• Emmerson Mnangagwa once explained his nickname by saying, “It strikes at the appropriate time.”