Daily protests have been ongoing for a month and a half in towns and cities across Myanmar after the military seized control of the Southeast Asian country in a coup on February 1. Security forces, made up of police and military personnel and under the command of coup leader Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, have responded
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More Americans are traveling as coronavirus case rates stay relatively low and vaccination numbers climb.
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Claudia Choi says that after her father was laid to rest, her elderly mother received a “cruel” letter in the mail threatening Asian Americans. “I was angry. It fired me up,” she told CNN. “It didn’t make me want to cry because my tears are saved for (the) loss of my dad. But it made
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THURSDAY: Rain is on the way back this morning. Some scattered showers will be possible early on this morning, but more of us will get in on the action after 8-9 AM. Rain will be with us for most of the day, with a few rumbles of thunder possible at times. Not expecting the severe
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The horror began in the parking lot. A gunman, wearing an armored or tactical vest, had just shot an elderly man outside the King Soopers on Monday afternoon in Boulder, Colorado. Inside the supermarket, staff watched in disbelief as the gunman stood over the man and fired again and again. After the gunman entered the
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The emergence of Covid-19 variants makes reopening efforts in the United States a riskier proposition, an infectious disease expert said Wednesday. Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, said the B.1.1.7 variant has resulted in increased transmission in countries with vaccination efforts similar to the
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President Joe Biden’s first two months in power went remarkably smoothly considering he took office amid a once-in-a-century pandemic, a consequent economic crisis and his predecessor’s refusal to recognize his victory. But in his first formal news conference Thursday, he’ll face scrutiny on gun control and immigration, two sudden tests of leadership for which his
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A 75-year-old Asian woman who was attacked in the street is taking the nearly $1 million donated for her medical bills and using it to combat racism, her family says. After Xiao Zhen Xie was punched in the face on March 17 in San Francisco in what police say was an unprovoked assault, she returned
Continue Reading The United States and its allies are stepping up pressure on China in a unified show of force against Beijing’s alleged repression of Uyghurs, a predominantly Muslim ethnic minority, in the country’s western region of Xinjiang. The US State Department estimates up to 2 million Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities have passed through a sprawling
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A delegation of White House officials and lawmakers visited Carrizo Springs, Texas, on Wednesday to see an influx facility designed to accommodate unaccompanied minors crossing the US-Mexico border — and for the first time, allowed independent media access. This facility and other shelters overseen by the Department of Health and Human Services are equipped to
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The Department of Defense Office of the Inspector General found that former Auditor General of the Navy Ronnie J. Booth “engaged in a pervasive and egregious pattern of sexual harassment toward multiple female employees over a period of more than 20 years,” a release of the investigation’s findings states. The report “substantiated the allegations” that
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A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. You can sign up for free right here. For President Biden, Thursday is question time. The president will be grilled by the press for the first time since he took office in January. The session will generate heat and light and hopefully lots
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Footage from the January 6 riot at the US Capitol shows a close ally of Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene inside the building. CNN previously reported that Anthony Aguero, a conservative live-streamer, activist and associate of Greene, said on video following the riot that he had been among those who entered the building. At
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A coalition of 14 major national media outlets, including CNN, is asking a federal court to make public police body camera and other close-up footage of rioters attacking Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick and other police with bear spray outside the US Capitol on January 6. The 10 video clips, shown by the Justice Department
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Here are the local scores from Wednesday, March 24, 2021. You can watch the highlights in the video player above. HS GIRLS SOCCER Rock Bridge (5) Battle (1) FINAL HS BASEBALL Odessa (1) Southern Boone (5) FINAL Battle (10) Wright City (0) FINAL Jefferson City (3) Blair Oaks (2) FINAL Mexico (1) Marshall (4) FINAL
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Click here for updates on this story ROCHESTER, Wisconsin (WDJT) — A 46-year-old man has been arrested after several videos of him allegedly sexually assaulting numerous victims were found on his laptop and cellphone. Police responded to a complaint of sexual assault in Rochester on Feb. 28. According to the Racine County Sheriff’s Office, a
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Michigan Republicans on Wednesday introduced a package of election bills that would bring a raft of voting restrictions to the state, the latest example of GOP lawmakers working to change election laws in a battleground state following the 2020 election. Described by Republicans as an effort to modernize and secure the state’s elections, the bills
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North Korea launched two ballistic missiles on Thursday, a senior US official told CNN citing an intelligence assessment — the second such launch in less than a week. It is not known yet whether the missiles were short, medium or long range, such as an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). The US military and intelligence community
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Britney Spears’ attorney is requesting the judge overseeing her court ordered conservatorship, remove her father, Jamie Spears, as the conservator of her person, and permanently replace him with Jodi Montgomery. The request came in the form of a petition Samuel D. Ingham III filed in Los Angeles Superior Court Tuesday evening. Jamie Spears has been
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