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Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally in Las Vegas, Nevada back in October of last year. Isaac Brekken/Getty Images

Kai talks to New York Time's Chief Washington Correspondent David Sanger about his latest interview with Donald Trump; former civil rights activists Peter and Marian Edelman talk about their time with Robert Kennedy during his poverty tour of Mississippi in 1967 and how they've seen issues of race and poverty change in the U.S. since then; and how Amazon is teaming up with Wells Fargo to lend student loans. 

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Top executives band together to release 'commonsense' corporate guidelines

by Ashley Milne-Tyte
Jul 21, 2016
Bankers, business CEO’s and asset managers met secretly to come up with a set of “best principles” for running publicly owned corporations.
A boardroom meeting, circa 1960.  
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Trump says no military aid for countries with trade deficits

by Kai Ryssdal
Jul 21, 2016
In an interview with the New York Times, Donald Trump expanded on his foreign policy platform.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump gives a thumbs up to the crowd at the Republican National Convention on July 18, 2016 at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio.
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Facebook is aiming higher to try and connect the world

by Kai Ryssdal and Molly Wood
Jul 21, 2016
Its Aquila plane — a solar-powered, wi-fi-beaming drone — will be deployed in fleets and fly for months, if Zuckerberg has his way.
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Amazon adds student loans to its offerings

by Amy Scott
Jul 21, 2016
A deal with Wells Fargo gives some Prime members a discount on interest rates.
An Amazon warehouse in the U.K.
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How The Deck Is Stacked

The Edelmans: 50 years of fighting for equality

by Kai Ryssdal and Tommy Andres
Jul 21, 2016
The couple who met on Kennedy's Delta tour and have carried on his torch for change.
 Marian Wright Edelman (foreground, right) escorts Robert Kennedy (center with back to camera) on his historic tour of the Mississippi Delta.
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In Greece, breadwinners struggle to support their kin

by Stephen Beard
Jul 21, 2016
Widespread unemployment left some Greeks as sole breadwinner for their families
People sitting outside of a restaurant in Greece. 
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Final Note

Rupert Murdoch will step in as Fox News CEO

by Kai Ryssdal
Jul 21, 2016
Ailes is officially out.
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Kai talks to New York Time’s Chief Washington Correspondent David Sanger about his latest interview with Donald Trump; former civil rights activists Peter and Marian Edelman talk about their time with Robert Kennedy during his poverty tour of Mississippi in 1967 and how they’ve seen issues of race and poverty change in the U.S. since then; and how Amazon is teaming up with Wells Fargo to lend student loans. 

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