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What will Trump’s border wall look like?

by Marielle Segarra
Mar 20, 2017
It must be 'aesthetically pleasing.'
 A steel wall separates Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, from a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Nogales, Arizona. 
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How local communities are trying to rebuild America

by David Brancaccio
Feb 6, 2017
One journalist trekked 12,000 miles across the U.S. to find out how people are coming up with innovative solutions to economic challenges.
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Mexico and U.S. at loggerheads over wall financing

by Jed Kim
Jan 26, 2017
Whoever ends up paying for the wall, the U.S. and Mexico will remain intertwined.
View of the border fence between Mexico and the US, seen from the Mexican side, on January 26, 2017, in Tijuana, northwestern Mexico. 
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Both sides of the border weigh in on Trump's security plans

by Kimberly Adams
Jan 25, 2017
Trump will lay out new strategies for immigration and border security between the U.S. and Mexico on Wednesday, according to multiple reports.
Near Naco, Arizona sections of the border fence are being replaced with taller, stronger barriers as part of an initiative that been in the works for several years.
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Japan's Shinzo Abe looks to strengthen ties with U.S. through Pearl Harbor visit

by Andy Uhler
Dec 26, 2016
The prime minister will become the first Japanese leader to formally visit the site.
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What Fidel Castro's death means for U.S.-Cuba relations

by David Brancaccio
Nov 28, 2016
Economic uncertainty may lie ahead.
Former Cuban President Fidel Castro at a demonstration in Havana, Cuba back in 2004. Castro had addressed tens of thousands of Cubans, criticizing U.S. travel restrictions.
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Liberating Mosul from ISIS is just a first step

by Andy Uhler
Oct 18, 2016
The economic stakes are high for Iraq and ISIS as they fight over Mosul.
Smoke billows as Iraqi forces hold a position in the area of al-Shurah, some 45 kms south of Mosul, while advancing towards the city to retake it from the Islamic State (IS) group jihadists. Some 30,000 federal forces are leading the offensive, backed by air and ground support from a 60-nation US-led coalition, in what is expected to be a long and difficult assault on IS's last major Iraqi stronghold. 
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The changing economic relationship between the US and Vietnam

by Mark Garrison
May 23, 2016
Trade between the U.S. and Vietnam now adds up to $45 billion a year.
Vietnam's President Tran Dai Quang and U.S. President Barack Obama take part in a joint press conference at the International Convention Center in Hanoi on Monday. Obama praised "strengthening ties" between the U.S. and Vietnam at the start of his landmark visit.
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Weekly Wrap: Volkswagen, interest rates and cybertheft

by Adriene Hill
Sep 25, 2015
Sudeep Reddy and Nela Richardson join Adriene Hill to recap the week that was.
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The US is facing more pressure to take in refugees

by Gigi Douban
Sep 4, 2015
Resettlement is a long process.
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