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A worker monitors molten iron pouring into a furnace at steel manufacturing plant in Hefei, Anhui province, China.
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Could tariffs on aluminum and steel spark a global trade war? We'll ask our economics reporter Jason Margolis. Plus, Canada likes to protect its dairy industry, and that means tariffs on cheese. Some Canadians have resorted to drastic measures to get their curd fix: smuggling. And, we remember The Beatles' famous visit to an ashram in India fifty years ago.
Canada has tariffs and quotas on imported cheese, which results in higher prices and limited availability. So some Canadians resort to cheese smuggling.
An Egyptian court has sentenced one of its country's top singers to six months in prison for a comment she made about the Nile River. Pop singer Sherine made a crack about getting ill from drinking from the river when she was asked by a fan to sing, "Have You Ever Drunk From the Nile."
Since 2014, some Central American youth were given temporary permission to join their parents in the US. The government acknowledged the danger they were in. But now, the Trump administration has canceled the programs that brought them. Meet one family, who waited 15 years to reunite, but whose time is almost up.
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