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Hot mess or rosy future? US college graduates view the ‘real world’ very differently. Today’s graduates are entering the rosiest job market in about a decade. While some are enthusiastic about the future, others worry about the state of the country. And their level of optimism appears to fall along political lines.

It seems like Obamacare worked out OK for a former Wisconsin farmer who signed up for the health care plan just two weeks before undergoing emergency surgery. But his vote for Donald Trump was still a protest against the Affordable Care Act and its crippling costs. He says he and his neighbors no longer trust traditional politicians who send all of the money to the cities.

VIDEO EXPLAINER: Obstruction of justice? When President Donald Trump said he took the investigation into his campaign’s ties to Russia into account before firing FBI Director James Comey, he sparked a debate over whether he might be guilty of obstruction of justice. Just what exactly does that mean? Let’s break it down.

And the winner is… The park that includes Cambodia’s famous Angkor Wat Hindu temple and hundreds of other temples is the world’s top tourism landmark, according to TripAdvisor. The city of Angkor was once the center of the Khmer empire in what is now Cambodia. But with tourism success, comes preservation challenges.

A string of high-profile crackdowns on gay rights in Indonesia has rocked the country’s LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) community. A gay couple was publicly caned recently in the first-ever application of a 2015 sharia statute against homosexuality. VOA reports from Jakarta, Indonesia, where it’s not illegal to be gay, but there’s more to the story.

VIDEO: Smartphones are helping scientists keep tabs on the natural world. More than 100,00 citizen scientists around the globe are teaming up with professional scientists to gather data by snapping pictures of all kinds of plants and animals. How does it all come together? Naturally, there’s an app for that.