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He voted for Donald Trump and now an Illinois pig farmer is feeling anxious about the president’s trade tactics. One-in-four of Brent Scholl’s animals sells overseas thanks to increased global demand for pork. But now China has proposed a 25 percent tariff on US pork products in a response to US tariffs on Chinese aluminum and steel. If that pork tariff is implemented later this year, Scholl’s foreign profits could be are at risk.

Sesame Street is moving into refugee camps in Iraq and Syria. Millions of children in the region have spent their early years experiencing the dire consequences of war. Now Bert, Ernie, Big Bird, Elmo and the entire Muppet gang will fan out across the camps to provide early education while helping children and families overcome the trauma of conflict.

EXPLAINER: ‘Attorney-client privilege is dead,’ President Trump declared on Twitter this week after the FBI raided the New York office and hotel room of the president’s longtime attorney, Michael Cohen. Like much of American law, the attorney-client privilege is rooted in English common law, but the privilege is not absolute.

VIDEO: Tourists are heading to Miami for more than its sunny climate and beautiful beaches. Pregnant Russian women spend about $20,000 to come to Florida to give birth. It’s a price they’re willing to pay to have their children born in the United States so they can be American citizens.

Senseless murder is not the only thing that binds two Rwandan families. More than two decades ago, Silas Bihizi joined other ethnic Hutus in killing five Tutsi neighbors. It was part of three months of bloodshed in April 1994, that left at least 800,000 people dead, most of them Tutsis. Bihizi’s victims were Valens Rukiriza’s brother, his brother’s wife and their three children. Today, Bihizi and Rukiriza are not only neighbors who live side by side, they are also family because their children chose to marry each other.