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VIDEO: Shopping malls in the United States are losing out to online sellers. Find out what developers are doing to repurpose malls to fit a changing American commercial landscape.

As the largest economy in the world, the U.S. produced $20.5 trillion worth of goods and services in 2018. That’s impressive when you consider that the total for the entire world was about $80 trillion in 2017. In fact, every U.S. state has an economy that makes it as economically powerful as any nation.

VIDEO: The Wayfarers Chapel on the California coast is often called the “glass church.” It’s a hidden gem tucked away among large redwood trees. VOA gives us a look at the building, which is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

The Campaign to Stop Killer Robots warns chances of achieving a U.N. treaty banning the development, production and use of fully autonomous lethal weapons, also known as killer robots, are looking increasingly remote.

VIDEO: With local elections in Turkey set for this coming Sunday, the vote is seen as a crucial test for the pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party in the country’s predominantly Kurdish southeast. Most of the HDP’s mayors and parliamentary deputies are in jail, accused of supporting a Kurdish insurgency. Still, as VOA reports from Diyarbakir, the largest city in Turkey’s Kurdish region, HDP candidates are running for office.