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Monitor articles for January 17, 2017

• Machines learn to find patterns in quantum chaos
• First LookGeneral Motors says it will invest $1 billion in US factories
• First LookTobacco companies announce $49-billion merger – will others follow?
• First LookNorth Dakota bill would protect drivers who hit protesters obstructing traffic
• First LookKosovo views Serbian rail link as 'provocation,' blocks train
• 'Big Little Lies': Reese Witherspoon riffs on Hollywood and the 'Smurfette Syndrome'
• First LookGerman court opts not to ban Nazi-like political party
• Does greater school choice lead to less segregation?
• First LookAmid plagiarism scandal, Monica Crowley bows out of national security job
• First Look'Hidden Figures' tops box office as non-franchise, female-led movie continues to dominate
• How a new campaign seeks to ensure a future for cocoa production in Ghana, a chocolate epicenter
• First LookStudy: US abortions now at lowest rate since Roe v. Wade
• Repealing Obamacare without a replacement could leave 18 million Americans uninsured
• Interior Secretary nominee Rep. Ryan Zinke talks climate change at confirmation hearing
• Trump isn't the first president to distrust US intelligence
• Obama grants clemency to Chelsea Manning, taking decades off the former soldier's sentence
• Widow of Orlando nightclub shooter charged: What does it mean to aid and abet a terrorist?
• The Monitor's ViewBreaking the fall of trust in institutions
• Once a retail innovator, American Apparel begins winding down
• Inside the belly of Russia's 'propaganda machine': A visit to RT news channel
• First LookNASA hails 'patriot and a pioneer' Eugene Cernan, the last man on the moon
• First LookOxfam: World's eight richest people have same wealth as poorest half
• As peace talks loom, Syrian refugees see little future in going home
• First LookMartin Luther King's son aims to bridge divide between Trump, Lewis
• Turned away by traditional refinance lenders? Here's how federal lending programs can help.
• Is an inauguration performance a political statement?
• Apple-cranberry salsa
• Income inequality: The good, the bad, and how to tackle it
• What Wal-Mart's higher wages, better training mean for US retail
• First LookWhat history tells us about why 81 whales died in Florida stranding
• First LookEndangered zebra shark hatches fatherless babies
• Theresa May’s Brexit plan takes shape
• Trump threatens German automakers with 35 percent tariff
• Arizona ethnic studies bill and what it means to be American
• First LookSearch for missing Malaysian Airlines plane suspended: When is it OK to stop looking?
• Emissions cheating goes global: France and Britain also investigating automakers
• First LookScientists tie the world's tightest knot
• A Christian Science PerspectiveTruth and fake news
• In Asheville, volunteer computer programmers seek to help the most vulnerable