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The answer is corn. That’s what changed President Donald Trump’s mind about saving the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), just hours after saying the US was pulling out of the treaty. Mexico is the second largest consumer of American-grown corn. So when Mexicans threatened to boycott US corn if Trump ditched NAFTA, American farmers got worried.

There’s a measles outbreak in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and nearly all of the victims are ethnic Somalis. Almost none of the victims were vaccinated against the disease due to autism fears within the local Somali-American community.

VIDEO EXPLAINER: If you own a property, but the government wants it, there’s a legal tool the feds can use to take it. Here’s how eminent domain works.

YouTube star: When Michael Groth wraps up his senior year at Rice University in Houston, Texas, he’ll receive an engineering degree, but he’ll also graduate as a video star. His YouTube fame began a few months ago after he posted a Pokemon-themed video he’d created. Groth and other young people like him aren’t just connecting with people around the world, they’re also earning good money.

Alaskan natives, who depend upon the Arctic Sea to survive, are watching closely as US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson meets with foreign ministers of the other Arctic Council nations in Fairbanks. If current warming rates hold, the world could see an ice-free Arctic by 2040, which worries Alaskan natives like Gabe Tegoseak.

The US-South Korean alliance could face a challenge now that South Korea’s liberal new president is in office. Moon Jae-in has taken a conciliatory position toward North Korea that is in sharp contrast to that of the Trump administration, which might lead to some friction between friends.