The national implications of California’s recall election

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<p><a href="https://apple.news/AJWEgk50GS02_j59Ihk0KOA?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">CNN</a> reports on casualties following what the Pentagon calls a &ldquo;complex attack&rdquo; on the airport in Kabul.</p> <p><a href="https://apple.news/A3phhPtHDS0GCY03NFHZdRg?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">Vox</a> explains how the unusual design of California&rsquo;s recall election could lead to Governor Gavin Newsom being replaced by a Republican.</p> <p>In Kansas, civic groups have stopped voter-registration drives. <a href="https://apple.news/AZdaaqJ4wSY263G4yKEyhDg?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">NPR</a> looks into concerns that a new election law is making it harder to sign people up to vote.</p> <p>At a time when controversial statues are being taken down across the U.S., one Texas town is installing new ones. <a href="https://apple.news/Aot4fl79uRSebIEHKbn773g?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">Texas Monthly</a> reports on locals upset over a sculpture series that depicts 16th-century European explorers meeting Indigenous people.</p> <p>Succulent owners in China are outsourcing plant parenthood. The <a href="https://apple.news/AQcqIfSAOSf2c9SelYIsDwg?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">Washington Post</a> takes a look at the growing popularity of succulent fostering.</p>