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VIDEO: America’s working class has gotten a rotten deal, says a local Texas singer who puts those feelings into songs that blast gentrification, cultural elitism and what he calls ‘coded racism.’ Corey Baum is passionate when it comes to spreading the word about the most pressing issues facing working people in America today.

Computers are reshaping fashion — from the functionality of clothes, to how they are made. Thanks to current technology, designers can now create structures and patterns that weren’t possible before. From growing leather using yeast cells, to creating the first smart jacket, the rising role of influencers, and online shopping, a fashion revolution is happening now.

VIDEO: A new smartphone app gives undocumented immigrants a virtual ‘panic button’ for if they’re ever swept up in a raid or detained. The app offers legal advice and provides a way for illegal immigrants to immediately notify relatives if they think they’re about to be arrested or detained.

President Trump welcomes French President Emmanuel Macron this week in the first state visit hosted by the administration. US media has called the friendly relationship between the two men ‘one of history’s oddest diplomatic couples.’ But their ‘bromance’ is about to be tested.

VIDEO: Trump’s wall? On the US-Mexico border a 30-foot-tall barrier is being built to keep illegal immigrants out of Calexico, California. VOA walks along the border with a US Border Patrol supervisor who tells us the wall is see-through to give agents an idea of what dangers they might face from the other side.

He spent his childhood in a Ethiopia refugee camp where he watched children die from hunger or cholera or while attempting to escape the camp. Manyang Kher made it to the United States as an unaccompanied minor refugee after 13 years in the camp, but he’s never forgotten his past. That’s why he sends 80 percent of the profits from his specialty coffee business to the people he left behind.