Local people walks past damaged buildings in the aftermath of an earthquake in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Sunday, March 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo)
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Local people walks past damaged buildings in the aftermath of an earthquake in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Sunday, March 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo)

What to know about Myanmar’s natural disasters and civil war complicating relief efforts

The Southeast Asian nation of Myanmar has been plagued by wars and natural disasters since it became independent from Britain in 1948, when it was still called Burma.
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President Donald Trump waves to supporters from his limousine as he arrives at Trump International Golf Club, Saturday, March 29, 2025, in West Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

President Donald Trump waves to supporters from his limousine as he arrives at Trump International Golf Club, Saturday, March 29, 2025, in West Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Trump says he won’t ‘fire people’ over Signal messages, reiterates support of national security team

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Private groups work to identify and report student protesters for possible deportation

Palestinians in the Gaza Strip had little to celebrate on Sunday as they began marking the normally festive Eid al-Fitr holiday with rapidly dwindling food supplies and no end in sight to the Israel-Hamas war that has devastated the territory. (AP video: Abdel Kareem Hana/ Production: Wafaa Shurafa)

‘Eid of sadness': Palestinians in Gaza mark Muslim holiday with dwindling food and no end to war

Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have little to celebrate as they begin marking a normally festive Muslim holiday with rapidly dwindling food supplies and no end in sight to the Israel-Hamas war.
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  1. At least half of US states now outlaw devices that convert pistols into machine guns

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  2. How a new Georgia bill could change the fate of domestic abuse survivors in prison

    Cards written by domestic violence survivors who have been charged with crimes about the Georgia Survivor Justice Act taken are shown in Atlanta on March 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Charlotte Kramon)

  3. Protests against Elon Musk’s purge of US government swarm Tesla showrooms

    Protesters rally against Tesla CEO Elon Musk outside a Tesla store in San Francisco on Saturday, March 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

  4. Pope’s willingness to show his frailty provides an example to young and old alike in aging world

    Pope Francis appears at a window of the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic in Rome, Sunday, March 23, 2025, where he has been treated for bronchitis and bilateral pneumonia since Feb. 14. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis, File)

  5. Verdict looms in French far-right party’s trial. Could this end Marine Le Pen’s political career?

    French far-right leader Marine Le Pen answers to the media during a gathering in support of detained Franco-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal, in Paris, Tuesday, March 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)

  6. At least 1 dead after plane crashes into home in Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Park

  7. This country just banned junk food sales in schools

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  8. Crowds flock to newest Catholic saint in Assisi — a millennial teen whose ordinariness is the draw

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MARCH MADNESS

Florida players celebrate after their win against Texas Tech in the Elite Eight of the NCAA college basketball tournament, Saturday, March 29, 2025, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)

Florida players celebrate after their win against Texas Tech in the Elite Eight of the NCAA college basketball tournament, Saturday, March 29, 2025, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)

Walter Clayton Jr. rallies Florida into Final Four with 84-79 March Madness win over Texas Tech

Walter Clayton Jr. rescued top-seeded Florida with two late 3-pointers, and the Gators rallied from nine points down late to reach the Final Four with an 84-79 victory over Texas Tech in the NCAA Tournament’s West Region final.
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Flau’Jae Johnson puts rap and podcasting careers aside during March Madness

Auburn’s Pettiford, Michigan State’s Richardson renew AAU rivalry in Elite Eight of March Madness

Sampson, Barnes and Izzo still love coaching in NIL era even after many of their peers have retired

Women’s NCAA Tournament down to 1 perfect bracket through Saturday’s opening game

WEEKEND READS

Workers filter patchouli oil at a refinery in Simboro, West Sulawesi, Indonesia, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

Workers filter patchouli oil at a refinery in Simboro, West Sulawesi, Indonesia, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

The beauty industry is driving demand for patchouli oil. But it comes at a cost

Demand for the patchouli plant’s oils has skyrocketed in recent years, and so too has the number of farmers in the region who now grow and process it.
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Residue from human waste has long wound up as farm fertilizer. Some neighbors hate it

Caught in the middle, this US border town is grappling with Trump’s trade war with Canada

A remote Australian town seeks a doctor, offering a $400,000 salary and free rent

The US stole land from the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation in 1848. Illinois just returned in

Scientists uncover an ancient insect preserved in amber that snatched its prey

Be Well

In this image from video, Jahzé Wyse braids a client's hair at her salon in Atlanta on Wednesday, March 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Javier Arciga)

Black women’s hair products are in the safety spotlight. Here’s what to know

  1. Do you eat a meal in 20 minutes or less? It might be time to slow down

  2. Believe at your own risk: Experts advise caution with online health claims

Today in History

March
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U.S. President Ronald Reagan being shoved into the President's limousine by secret service agents after being shot outside a Washington hotel Monday, March 30, 1981. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)

1981: Reagan shot in assassination attempt

1867

U.S. buys Alaska from Russia

1939

Batman makes debut

2023

Trump indicted by grand jury
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This image released by Focus Features shows co-writer/actor Tom Basden, from left, director James Griffiths and actor Carey Mulligan on the set of "The Ballad of Wallis Island." (Alistair Heap/Focus Features via AP)

This image released by Focus Features shows co-writer/actor Tom Basden, from left, director James Griffiths and actor Carey Mulligan on the set of “The Ballad of Wallis Island.” (Alistair Heap/Focus Features via AP)

Can the ‘feel-good’ movie exist in 2025? ‘The Ballad of Wallis Island’ proves maybe it can

By the time a film arrives on movie screens, its makers often strive to find ways to articulate how relevant it is, how it speaks to now.
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Movie Review: ‘The Ballad of Wallis Island’ is the loveliest movie of the year (so far)

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Jacob Elordi talks weight loss and on-screen romance for ‘The Narrow Road to the Deep North’

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  2. North Carolina judge challenging outcome of race wore Confederate uniform in college photo

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  4. Wisconsin appeals court won’t stop Musk’s $1 million payments to voters after attorney general sues

  5. Myanmar quake death toll rises to 1,644 as resistance movement announces partial ceasefire

This image provided by the City of St. Augustine Archaeology Program shows City of St. Augustine Archaeology Program volunteers, from left, Don Roberts, Janet Fittipaldi, David Kasriel and Bob Maerz work to screen soil to recover artifacts from the 1781 British Redoubt moat in Feb. 2025. (City of St. Augustine Archaeology Program via AP)

Archeologists unearth signs from 1700s of British control in Florida after centuries of Spanish rule

The centuries-old city of St. Augustine is an enduring reminder of Spain’s long history in Florida, going back generations before the United States even existed.
Artist Chow Chun-fai speaks during an interview at his studio in Hong Kong, Feb. 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Chan Long Hei)

Hong Kong painter draws inspiration from city’s recent history in works at Art Basel

This photo provided by Janice Wei shows Candi Hololio Johnson, left, and Kim Kozuma, both on horseback, as they watch lava shooting out of Kilauea volcano's summit caldera inside Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, Hawaii, Wednesday, March 26, 2025. (Janice Wei via AP)

Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano puts on a fiery show with a towering fountain of lava

Quang Dung, the chef and owner of Chapter Dining, poses for a photo on March 1, 2025, in Hanoi, Vietnam. (AP Photo/Yannick Peterhans)

How one chef in Vietnam uses fish sauce as the foundation for flavor

A miniature pig waits for visitors to feed it at a zoo in Shanghai, China, on Thursday Feb. 15, 2007. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)

Chinese researchers report a pig kidney transplant and a first-step liver experiment

One Extraordinary Photo

Riot police officers use pepper spray to clear a protester during a protest after Istanbul's Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu was arrested and sent to prison, in Istanbul, Turkey, Sunday, March 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Riot police officers use pepper spray to clear a protester during a protest after Istanbul’s Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu was arrested and sent to prison, in Istanbul, Turkey, Sunday, March 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

An AP photographer captures a masked protester undeterred by a deluge of pepper spray

ISTANBUL (AP) — Photographer Francisco Seco started working with The Associated Press as a freelancer in 2010 in Portugal.
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AP Photography

Muslims gather to break their fast with fruits and juice during the holy month of Ramadan in Nima, Accra, Ghana, Friday, March 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)

From the Atlantic coast to the Sahelian plain, Ramadan brings West Africans to the table

The Microsoft team sets up the first live trial of 3D telemedicine technology in a van at Koforidua Hospital, Ghana, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)

New 3D technology could soon bring surgeons closer to patients in Africa’s most remote regions

Riot police officers use pepper spray to clear a protester during a protest after Istanbul's Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu was arrested and sent to prison, in Istanbul, Turkey, Sunday, March 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

An AP photographer captures a masked protester undeterred by a deluge of pepper spray

US News

A person looks at a new vehicle at a Toyota dealership in El Monte, Calif., Thursday, March 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Trump’s promised ‘Liberation Day’ of tariffs is coming. Here’s what it could mean for you

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  1. Trump roars down multiple paths of retribution as he vowed. Some targets yield while others fight

  2. Top vaccine official resigns from FDA, criticizes RFK Jr. for promoting ‘misinformation and lies’

  3. Deputies won’t face charges in deadly 2022 shootout on California highway, prosecutors say

WORLD NEWS

Britain's Prince Harry, left, accompanied by Prince Seeiso of Lesetho, meets pupils in a class during his visit to the Kananelo Centre for the Deaf outside Maseru, Lesotho, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe, File)

Chair of African charity Prince Harry co-founded says the royal orchestrated a bullying campaign

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  1. Turkey arrests Swedish journalist over alleged terrorist connections to a pro-Kurdish group

  2. Judge homers 3 times as Yanks go deep on Cortes’ first 3 pitches and hit 9 HRs vs. Brewers

  3. 2 people killed and dozens wounded in Russian attack on Kharkiv

Politics

President Donald Trump, left, greets justices of the Supreme Court, from left, Elena Kagan, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett, before addressing a joint session of Congress at the Capitol in Washington, March 4, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Trump increasingly asks the Supreme Court to overrule judges blocking key parts of his agenda

  1. A weekend ritual for Trump’s Florida die-hards to get a brief glimpse of their political hero

  2. American woman held in Afghanistan by the Taliban has been released, AP source says

Entertainment

This photo provided by Random House shows the book cover “Shot Ready." (Random House via AP)

Steph Curry scores a 3-book deal, starting with a ‘personal reflection’ on his life and career

  1. Film academy apologizes for not naming ‘No Other Land’ co-director in response to attack on him

  2. The Sex Pistols announce first North American tour in 2 decades

  3. What is the Smithsonian, and why is President Trump unhappy with it?

SPORTS

Duke center Khaman Maluach (9) holds up at the East Region championship trophy after Duke defeated Alabama in an Elite Eight round NCAA college basketball tournament game, Saturday, March 29, 2025, in Newark, N.J. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Duke’s great D sends Blue Devils to their 18th Final Four with an 85-65 win over Alabama

  1. Bueckers has career-high 40 to lead one-woman March Madness rout for UConn, 82-59 over Oklahoma

  2. USC shakes off JuJu Watkins’ absence and beats Kansas State 67-61 in March Madness

  3. Shohei Ohtani ramps up throwing program, but Roberts says MVP isn’t close to mound debut for Dodgers

BUSINESS

Portions of a Norfolk Southern freight train that derailed the night before burn in East Palestine, Ohio, Feb. 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

Trial will determine who will pay $600 million settlement in disastrous Norfolk Southern derailment

  1. A New Hampshire ski resort bets on tech to compete with industry giants

  2. From repairs to insurance, Trump’s auto tariffs could make owning a car more expensive

  3. Wall Street tumbles, and S&P 500 drops 2% on worries about slower economy and higher inflation

SCIENCE

In a photo provided by Isar Aerospace, Photo Wingmen Media, Isar Aerospace Launch Vehicle "Spectrum" is transported to a launchpad at Andoya Spaceport in Nordmela, on Andøya island, Norway, on March 10, 2025. (Isar Aerospace, Photo Wingmen Media via AP)

A private European aerospace startup completes the first test flight of its orbital launch vehicle

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  1. New wave of smaller, cheaper nuclear reactors sends US states racing to attract the industry

  2. What to know about earthquakes like the one that hit Myanmar

  3. What to know about the US military’s Pituffik Space Base in Greenland

LIFESTYLE

This photo provided by Ten Plus Three, shows a meditation room created during a home renovation in Austin. (Ten Plus Three via AP)

‘Wellness rooms’ are claiming space in many homes

  1. AP PHOTOS: Bolivian street food finds its place at the fine dining table

  2. King Charles III’s brief hospital stay reminds UK that monarch is still a cancer patient

  3. A timeline of recent British royal events

Technology

Venezuelan migrant Yender Romero shows the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) One app on his cell phone, which he said he used to apply for asylum in the U.S. and is waiting on an answer, at a migrant tent camp outside La Soledad church in Mexico City, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, the inauguration day of U.S. President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano, File)

Immigration officials look to collect social media handles from those seeking benefits. Is this new?

  1. Elon Musk sells X to his own xAI for $33 billion in all-stock deal

  2. Convicted of bilking investors, Nikola founder and Trump donor gets a presidential pardon

  3. IRS crime fighting arm announces modernization program as financial crimes use more tech

Health

Female Marines go through one of the obstacles in the so-called confidence course at Parris Island Recruit Depot, S.,C., on May 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Lolita Baldor, File)

Military review of fitness standards will find array of tests, but higher requirements for combat

  1. Boys with cancer can face infertility as adults. Can storing their stem cells help?

  2. Texas reaches 400 measles cases as US deals with outbreaks in 5 states

  3. The fate of addiction treatment hangs in the balance with Kennedy’s HHS overhaul

Climate

Water runs out of a drain under an agricultural field, Tuesday, April 9, 2024, in Sabina, Ohio. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel, File)

Plastics are seeping into farm fields, food and eventually human bodies. Can they be stopped?

  1. Trump administration cancels clean energy grants as it prioritizes fossil fuels

  2. Climate change and overfishing threaten Vietnam’s ancient tradition of making fish sauce

  3. Arctic sea ice hits record low for its usual peak growth period

Fact Check

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts speaks at the University of Nebraska Lincoln, in Lincoln, Neb., Sept. 19, 2014. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)

FACT FOCUS: Posts falsely claim federal judiciary members are in secret club, undermining Trump

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