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Myanmar earthquake death toll jumps to nearly 700, according to government, state-run media reports

BANGKOK (AP) - The death toll from a powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Myanmar has jumped to nearly 700, according to the government, state-run media reported Saturday. MRTV reported that 694 peopl...

Mar 28, 2025

Voice of America wins in court, for now, as judge blocks Trump administration from firing staff

NEW YORK (AP) - The Voice of America can't be silenced just yet. A federal judge on Friday halted the Trump administration's efforts to dismantle the eight-decade-old U.S. government-funded internatio...

Mar 28, 2025

US Naval Academy ends affirmative action in admissions

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - The U.S. Naval Academy will no longer consider race, ethnicity or sex as a factor for admission to the service institution, a response to an executive order by President Donald T...

Mar 28, 2025

Appeals court clears way for DOGE to keep operating at USAID

WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal appeals court has lifted an order blocking Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency from further cuts at the U.S. Agency for International Development. The three-jud...

Mar 28, 2025

3 dead and more than 200 rescued in South Texas after severe storms flood streets

McALLEN, Texas (AP) - Drenching rain along the Texas-Mexico border let up Friday, but rescues were still ongoing a day after severe storms trapped residents in their homes, forced drivers to abandon t...

Mar 28, 2025

Brazil fires coach Dorival Júnior after worst defeat in World Cup qualifying

SAO PAULO (AP) - Brazil's soccer confederation has fired coach Dorival Jnior after 14 months amid poor results and disappointing performances from the national team. Jnior's sacking on Friday came thr...

Mar 28, 2025

Musk changes reason for visiting Wisconsin to hand out $2 million ahead of Supreme Court election

MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Wisconsin's Democratic attorney general asked a court on Friday to block billionaire Elon Musk from handing out $1 million checks to voters this weekend, just two days before the ...

Mar 28, 2025

Appeals court rules Trump can fire board members of independent labor agencies

WASHINGTON (AP) - An appeals court ruled Friday that President Donald Trump can fire two board members of independent agencies handling labor issues from their respective posts in the federal governme...

Mar 28, 2025

Vance and wife tour US military base in Greenland after diplomatic spat over uninvited visit

NUUK, Greenland (AP) - Vice President JD Vance, his wife and other senior U.S. officials visited an American military base in Greenland on Friday in a trip that was scaled back after an uproar among G...

Mar 28, 2025

South Carolina inmate chooses to die by firing squad like the last condemned inmate before him

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - A second South Carolina death row inmate has asked to die by firing squad just five weeks after the state carried out its first death by bullets. Mikal Mahdi chose the firing squ...

Mar 28, 2025