Worcester City Hall's plaza was refurbished in 2010 as part of a city beautification program. Aaron Schachter/WGBH hide caption
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Edmond de Belamy, created using artificial intelligence, will be auctioned at Christie's on Thursday. Christie's Images hide caption
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Costco Builds Nebraska Supply Chain For Its $5 Rotisserie Chickens
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The Hamilton model home, now owned by Andrew Mutch, under construction in Novi, Mich., is pictured in 1926. Salow Family/Courtesy of Andrew Mutch hide caption
Load Trail has had a hard time hiring welders to fabricate its trailers since Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested about a quarter of its workforce in August. John Burnett/NPR hide caption
When the mines in the North Fork Valley started laying off employees, Eric and Teresa Neal hired and retrained former coal miners to learn how to work with fiber optic cable. Meredith Rizzo/NPR hide caption
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Authorities say StarKist has agreed to plead guilty to price fixing as part of a broad collusion investigation of the industry. Lisa Poole/AP hide caption
"There are issues remaining around the backstop," Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May told reporters on Thursday, referring to the debate over how to treat Ireland and Northern Ireland when the U.K. leaves the EU. Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
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The barley used to make beer as we know it may take a hit under climate change, but growers say they are already preparing by planting it farther north in colder locations. Dean Hutton/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption