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“Every Afghan, they are really up to here with Americans,” said Ahmad Wali Massoud, a former Afghan ambassador to London. “You came to Afghanistan to root out terrorism. What happened?”https://on.wsj.com/3xKHP5u 

The rapid collapse of regular Afghan forces has dismayed allies, including those that have contributed troops to the U.S.-led coalition, and revived worries about the value of U.S. commitments overseashttps://on.wsj.com/3CECSyu 

Hours after the Senate passed a $3.5 trillion budget framework, centrist and progressive lawmakers in the Democratic party aired rival concerns over the package set to be finalized this fallhttps://on.wsj.com/3s9oTvJ 

About 10,000 troops from China and Russia are carrying out joint military exercises in northwestern China to test some of the People’s Liberation Army’s newest weapons and signal unity on common security concerns such as Afghanistanhttps://on.wsj.com/3CxndRA 

The U.S. government resumed its yearslong effort to put Julian Assange on trial on spying charges, challenging a British judge’s decision to refuse the WikiLeaks founder’s extradition because he posed a suicide riskhttps://on.wsj.com/37GzbtP 

From @WSJopinion: New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s resignation was memorable, but we shouldn’t forget his policy legacy, writes @EjmEjhttps://on.wsj.com/3iE6N1U 

The NCAA said that an investigation was unable to reach a conclusion as to whether Baylor University violated its rules when it failed to report a string of alleged sexual assaults that took place within the football program from 2011 to 2016https://on.wsj.com/3m94QwP 

The New York Stock Exchange will require traders to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 by Sept. 13 to access its historic trading floorhttps://on.wsj.com/3jJmnJ3 

McDonald’s says all of the company’s U.S. corporate workers must be fully vaccinated by Sept. 27https://on.wsj.com/37BhuMw 

California will require teachers and staff to show proof of vaccination or submit to regular Covid-19 testing, becoming the first state in the nation to impose such a requirement on all school employeeshttps://on.wsj.com/3jLuC7j 

How do people from across the political spectrum engage in knowledgeable and productive dialogue? How do Americans strengthen the country’s constitutional democracy? For many education experts, the answer is to start in the classroom.https://on.wsj.com/3CFJ7lB 

“Jeopardy!” executive producer Mike Richards and actress Mayim Bialik will be the iconic show’s new hosts following one of the most closely watched hiring searches in show businesshttps://on.wsj.com/3lVOzew 

Carvana was suspended from selling cars in the Raleigh, North Carolina area until next year, after a state investigation determined that it sold cars without state inspections and failed to deliver titles to the motor vehicle departmenthttps://on.wsj.com/3fRglFa 

NBCUniversal is postponing its return to the office until October and will require returning employees to be fully vaccinated and provide details of their vaccination statushttps://on.wsj.com/2VLuqgo 

A House committee is entitled to some of former President Donald Trump’s financial and tax records that it had sought from his accounting firm while investigating ethics issues, a federal judge ruledhttps://on.wsj.com/37A8Pdi 

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani replaced the country’s army chief and flew to the besieged northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif, trying to organize its defenses and halt the Taliban’s rapid offensivehttps://on.wsj.com/3s72SxR