CNN reports on casualties following what the Pentagon calls a “complex attack” on the airport in Kabul. Vox explains how the unusual design of California’s recall election could lead to Governor Gavin Newsom being replaced by a Republican. In Kansas, civic groups have stopped voter-registration drives. NPR looks into concerns that a new election law is making it harder to sign people up to vote. At a time when controversial statues are being taken down across the U.S., one Texas town is installing new ones. Texas Monthly reports on locals upset over a sculpture series that depicts 16th-century European explorers meeting Indigenous people. Succulent owners in China are outsourcing plant parenthood. The Washington Post takes a look at the growing popularity of succulent fostering.

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