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Saying that Iran won’t be prevented from building a nuclear bomb “under the decaying and rotten structure” of the Iran nuclear deal struck less than two years ago, President Trump announced the U.S. is leaving the pact and will re-impose sanctions on Tehran.

A proposal to ask respondents if they’re citizens during the upcoming U.S. census has some worried one of the darker episodes in U.S. history could repeat itself: During World War II, the U.S. secretly used data from the 1940 census to help round up thousands of Japanese Americans and held them in internment camps.

Trade negotiations between China and the United States continue early next week in Washington. But after the first round, the differences between the two sides are huge. Are the disputes so fundamental and so big that an escalation of tariffs is unavoidable?

Food and conversation go together like love and marriage; they are a natural pairing, one that evokes home and comfort. That is exactly why the Free Library of Philadelphia offers cooking classes to immigrants and refugees. They learn American cooking, sure, but they also learn the English language.

As artificial intelligence and other technology becomes more ingrained in our daily lives, some experts warn that some danger comes with the many benefits.  Becoming too dependent on these tools or trusting them too much can have catastrophic results.  And they could widen the already large gap between wealthy and developing countries.

QUICK TAKE VIDEO: VOA takes you to Fort Irwin in southern California’s Mojave Desert to visit a training center for U.S. soldiers before they are deployed overseas. Its desert environment and mock villages simulate the conditions that troops will experience if they are sent to the Middle East.