Plus: The Afghan quagmire, America's report card and the incarcaration divide |
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The pivotal off-year governor's race comes as the Democratic Party is anxiously trying to rack up some wins and avoid a political bloodletting next year and in 2024. A recent attack in Afghanistan carried out by a Uighur Muslim has shaken China's top national security decisionmakers, who now question the value of promises from the Taliban. Democratic lawmakers are facing the complex task of deciding what – and how – to cut from a massive $3.5 trillion spending plan with a month's-end deadline looming. A congressionally mandated system designed to recoup the costs of long-term care can hit people with the crushing prospect of losing a home, posing a particularly insidious threat for low-income families and people of color 'I've never reported a slide like that,' an official with the group that administers the Nation's Report Card said after analyzing the results. Nationally, Black Americans are incarcerated at nearly 5 times the rate of white Americans, though in some states the disparity is far greater. U.S. News photo editors curate this month's most compelling images from at home and abroad. |
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