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VIDEO: John Bolton’s first weeks on the job have been anything but dull. VOA contributor Greta Van Susteren talks foreign policy and security with President Trump’s new national security advisor, and asks about the potential North Korea summit. Bolton says negotiations won’t take long and that President Trump won’t get ‘taken in’ like prior administrations.

Two years ahead of the 2020 election, Democrats are searching for the anti-Trump. President Trump is already out on the campaign trail testing themes for a re-election bid, and Democrats are expected to field a slew of presidential contenders who will vie for their party’s nomination. Some of the potential Democratic candidates are familiar faces but not all.

British pomp is expected to meet Hollywood glamour when American Meghan Markle marries Prince Harry tomorrow on the grounds of Windsor Castle. Security is tight and huge crowds are expected in the historic town as well-wishers try to catch a glimpse of the royal couple. The wedding is expected to have all of the hallmarks of a royal British wedding — with perhaps a few American touches thrown in.

Americans are having fewer children. Birth rates have reached 30-year lows, according to the US government. All groups — including teens and women in their 20s and 30s — had fewer babies. And the reason why might lie with millennials and immigrants.

VIDEO: Shadowy websites provide cover for prostitution and sex trafficking that police in Baltimore, Maryland, are working to put a stop to. VOA follows undercover officers as they head to the streets to find and save a young girl being sold for sex.