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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump says he’ll build a massive wall along the U.S.-Mexico border if he’s elected, but it turns out there’s already a barrier along the boundary in Nogales, Arizona. Yet the people who live there don’t necessarily think that’s a good thing.

Calling all white, blue-collar workers Trump has clinched the nomination, but can he take his wild ride all the way to the White House? The Republican candidate has a strong, unified group of minorities standing in opposition to him, so he’s got to win over working class Democratic white voters. Does he hope to do that by exploiting racial and ethnic fears?

No GOP candidate has ever won the presidency without winning Ohio. That’s got Republicans in key swing states, like Florida and Pennsylvania, wondering whether their unconventional party nominee has a strategy to swing those states his way on election day.

If African-Americans lived longer, U.S. elections would turn out differently. At least that’s what some researchers in Michigan have concluded. They say if African-Americans died at equal rates as whites, some key close elections that Republicans won would have gone to Democrats instead.

VOA is in Istanbul exploring why Turkey’s president is concerned about a former imam who lives in Pennsylvania. U.S.-Turkish relations remain strained after accusations from members of the ruling AK Party that the United States was somehow involved in the failed July 15 coup. President Tayyip Recep Erdogan declared a state of emergency, which has the White House walking a fine line. In Ankara, VOA sat down with a top official to discuss the future of Turkey’s relationship with the United States as well as with Russia and Iran.

Former Islamic State fighters are finding out whether you really can go home again. As the terror group loses territory in Iraq and Syria, many of its foreign recruits are believed to be returning to their home countries. Here’s how some Central Asian governments are preparing for the return of their militant citizens.

VIDEO: The natural splendor of the United States can be found in her national parks, which mark their 100th anniversary this year. These unspoiled expanses of land cover more than 84 million acres in every state and President Obama says these breathtaking spaces embody the true spirit of America.

Millennials, the latest generation of Americans to enter the labor force, could reshape the way we work. Young people who reached adulthood around the year 2000, want a more flexible work schedule, which could mean the end of the fixed 40-hour work week. That’s not necessarily bad news for businesses; there’s some evidence that reducing the 40-hour workweek might improve the bottom line.