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VIDEO: The living is loose and the drugs flowing in Slab City, California, where people move to live off the grid. The outpost in the Sonoran Desert is home to artists, retirees, hippies, the poor, snowbirds and anarchists. There’s no electricity or running water, but anyone can fence off an area and call it home in the city residents say is the last free place to live in America.

VOA INTERVIEW: Former US Ambassador to Pakistan Ryan Crocker talks with VOA contributor Greta Van Susteren about why Pakistan sees everything through an India prism and explains how China’s investment in Pakistan could end up helping the United States.

VOA CONNECT: Consignment shops give new life to old clothes. Often, customers are also suppliers. They bring their belongings in to be sold and share the profits with the shop. They also buy new-to-them clothing at the consignment store, with the added benefit of keeping waste out of the landfill.

VIDEO: Buffalo, New York — part of the so-called American Rust Belt — has seen better days. One-third of residents in the once-prosperous city live in poverty. It’s a national phenomenon. Buffalo is one of many American cities in the northeastern and midwestern US that has fallen on hard times due to the decline of a once-powerful industrial sector.

Britain’s newly married royal couple has a special kinship with Africa. Prince Harry spent his post-graduation year in Lesotho and launched a children’s charity there. Millions of royal watchers across Africa watched raptly as he married American Meghan Markle this past weekend and observers say that love for Africa shone through.