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The Census Bureau has recommended that a new Middle East and North Africa (MENA) racial category be added to the next census, coming in 2020. This could be interpreted as an alarming development — but advocacy groups have been pushing for it for a while.

This week, Oregon voters will decide Measure 100, which would ban the buying and selling of various illegal animal products. There is widespread support for the measure, but concern that a lack of funding means it promises more than it could deliver.

The city councilors in Brockton, a city in Massachusetts, have decided to wait until after the presidential election to vote on a measure to make life easier for undocumented immigrants.

Afghanistan alone is allocated one-fifth of the aid — $16 per woman in that country.