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  • Honduran migrants leave the Metropolitan Center of San Pedro Sula, 300 kms north of Tegucigalpa, to travel to the Guatemala border.
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    In an effort to slow the flow of Central America migrants into the U.S., President Trump said he’s cutting direct aid to El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. The U.S. sends money to those countries to help them combat drug trafficking, gang violence and to promote economic growth. Click the audio player above to hear the full […]

  • What’s the most profitable company on earth? We’ll give you three guesses. Nope, not Apple. Google? Try again. Exxon Mobil – wrong. It’s the national oil company of Saudi Arabia. Known as Saudi Aramco, it’s the runaway leader, according to new numbers put out by the company. These number are the first since … well, […]

  • Jars of Nutella are displayed on a shelf at a market in San Francisco, California. 
 
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    The Italian company — maker of global staple, Nutella — is buying several cookie and snack brands from Kellogg Co., which is trying to focus on other hit brands, like Cheez-It crackers. The deal will give Ferrero more visibility in snack aisles across the U.S. Click the audio player above to hear the full story.

  • The Raised Voices political choir taking part in the anti-Brexit "People's Vote" rally in central London on March 23, 2019.
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    Raised Voices sings its opposition.

  • Texas Coastal Exchange says preserving coastal marshland could be key to battling climate change.
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    Landowners would pay to “store” carbon.

  • Freda Chisambi works at the University of West London.
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    Freda Chisambi says she feels "really, really nervous."

  • What Brexit means for business
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    A market owner, cheesemonger and bookseller discuss living with uncertainty.

  • Shoppers walk along the high street in the market town of Boston in Lincolnshire in 2015.
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    Three years after the town of Boston, England, voted to leave the EU, residents explain why they voted the way they did.

  • Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) (C) talks to reporters with Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) (L) and Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn (R-TX) following the weekly Senate Republican policy luncheon at the U.S. Capitol on July 18, 2017 in Washington, D.C.
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    In a filing with a federal appeals court in New Orleans Monday, the Trump administration said the entire Affordable Care Act should be struck down as unconstitutional. It’s asking the court to affirm a December ruling by a Texas judge, who found that the repeal of financial penalties for not having insurance rendered the whole […]

  • McDonald’s bets on AI to help it sell more burgers
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    The fast food chain is acquiring digital startup Dynamic Yield for more than $300 million.

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