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The U.S. trade war with China has cost farmers billions. Government bailouts have helped keep many farms solvent, but thoughts are turning to this year's planting season.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Nicholas Bloom, an economics professor at Stanford University, about the economic impacts of Brexit and how they could also impact U.S. businesses.

Updated: 7:00 p.m., Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021 The new, more contagious COVID-19 strain that originated in the U.K. has been discovered in Northeast Ohio, University Hospitals officials confirmed Wednesday. Since December, UH researchers have been tracking emerging variants found in COVID-19 patient lab samples in Cleveland, including B.1.1.7, the variant that circulated widely in the U.K., officials said.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has chosen Secretary of State Alex Padilla to replace Vice President-elect Kamala Harris in the U.S. Senate. Padilla will be the state's first Latino to hold the position.

In Washington D.C., China hawks are using the coronavirus pandemic to argue that the U.S. needs a tough economic and geopolitical stance against China. President Trump is echoing those views.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with former U.S. attorney and University of Michigan law professor Barbara McQuade about Michael Cohen's plea deal and the verdict in Paul Manafort's trial.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Michelle Krebs, an executive analyst at Autotrader, to get an idea of what the auto industry thinks of the trade deal announced Monday between the U.S. and Mexico.

Julian Assange probably won't have access to his laptop computer for a while, but that may not mean that the organization he created won't still release secrets and, potentially, affect elections.

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks to Linda Rivas, the Executive Director Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center, about the conditions for migrants on the Mexican side of the U.S. border.

The Federal Trade Commission and 17 states accuse Amazon of suffocating rivals and raising costs for both sellers and shoppers.