BANGKOK (AP) — Long-shot efforts to find survivors from Myanmar’s devastating March 28 earthquake were winding down Monday, as rescue efforts were supplanted by increasing relief and recovery activity. The death toll surpassed 3,600 and was still climbing. A situation report issued late Monday by the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, or
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By ELAINE KURTENBACH, LORNE COOK and DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer BRUSSELS (AP) — America’s trading partners wrestled with responses to U.S. President Donald Trump’s blast of tariff hikes and some planned to send negotiators to Washington, while the head of the European Union’s executive commission offered mutual reduction of tariffs – while warning that
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By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Removing books from library shelves is no longer just a story of objections from a local community or an individual parent, the American Library Association says. In its new State of American Libraries Report released Monday, the ALA found more than 70% of attempted bans
Continue Reading By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Removing books from library shelves is no longer just a story of objections from a local community or an individual parent, the American Library Association says. In its new State of American Libraries Report released Monday, the ALA found more than 70% of attempted bans
Continue Reading By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Removing books from library shelves is no longer just a story of objections from a local community or an individual parent, the American Library Association says. In its new State of American Libraries Report released Monday, the ALA found more than 70% of attempted bans
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By Kyle Feldscher, CNN (CNN) — One last college basketball game remains in the 2024-25 season and if Saturday’s Final Four is any indication, it’s going to be quite the ride. Florida and Houston will collide in San Antonio’s Alamodome for the men’s title after a national semifinal round that was simply magical. The Gators
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By Ben Church, CNN (CNN) — The start of a rugby game in France was delayed on Sunday after a parachutist became entangled in the stadium roof prior to kickoff. The parachutist was part of a pre-match ceremony that was tasked with carrying the match ball to the field ahead of the European Rugby Champions
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Associated Press Missouri Daybook for Monday, Apr. 07. The daybook is for planning purposes only and is not intended for publication or broadcast. You should verify any event you plan to cover. Please keep the AP in mind when news develops. The Missouri bureau is reachable at 816-421-4844. Send daybook items to Missouri@applanner.com. To see
Continue Reading Associated Press Nebraska Daybook for Monday, Apr. 07. The daybook is for planning purposes only and is not intended for publication or broadcast. You should verify any event you plan to cover. Please keep the AP in mind when news develops. The Omaha bureau is reachable at 402-391-0031. Send daybook items to Nebraska@applanner.com. To see
Continue Reading TODAY’S SPORTS SCHEDULE ___ INTERLEAGUE Final Chicago Cubs 7 Texas 0 Final Baltimore 5 Arizona 1 Final San Diego 5 Athletics 4 ___ AMERICAN LEAGUE Final Detroit 6 N.Y. Yankees 2 Final Toronto 6 Boston 2 Final Kansas City 4 Minnesota 2 Final Seattle 4 Houston 3 ___ NATIONAL LEAGUE Final Pittsburgh 8 St. Louis
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By Don Riddell, CNN (CNN) — Life comes at you fast when you’re a prodigiously talented young golfer, so fast in fact that an awful lot of money might just slip through your fingers. At the start of last year, Nick Dunlap was studying finance at the University of Alabama and he set himself up
Continue Reading Associated Press Kansas Daybook for Monday, Apr. 07. The daybook is for planning purposes only and is not intended for publication or broadcast. You should verify any event you plan to cover. Please keep the AP in mind when news develops. The Kansas City bureau is reachable at 816-421-4844. Send daybook items to Kansas@applanner.com. To
Continue Reading Associated Press Iowa Daybook for Monday, Apr. 07. The daybook is for planning purposes only and is not intended for publication or broadcast. You should verify any event you plan to cover. Please keep the AP in mind when news develops. The Des Moines bureau is reachable at 515-243-3281. Send daybook items to iowa@applanner.com. To
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By Karina Tsui, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration has until 11:59 p.m. Monday to return to the United States a Maryland man who the government admits was accidentally deported to a high-security prison in El Salvador. District Judge Paula Xinis on Sunday rejected efforts from the Trump administration to pause an order for the
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By Allison Morrow, CNN New York (CNN) — It is wise for investors “to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful,” according to one of Warren Buffett’s classic aphorisms. But it’s not easy to pinpoint the mood on the Street. Markets are notoriously unpredictable, propelled by “animal
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By Hanna Park, Mary Gilbert, Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — A dayslong deluge of rain finally subsided across the South and Midwest on Monday, but, like the extensive flooding that followed, the danger for many communities will be slow to recede. “As long as I’ve been alive — and I’m 52 — this is the
Continue ReadingJuliana Liu y John Liu Los mercados mundiales se desplomaron este lunes, profundizando una caída de las acciones globales provocada por la guerra comercial del presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, y la enérgica respuesta de China a aranceles inesperadamente altos. El Dax alemán abrió con una bajada del 9%, mientras que el FTSE de
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By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel has dramatically expanded its footprint in the Gaza Strip since relaunching its war against Hamas last month. It now controls more than 50% of the territory and is squeezing Palestinians into shrinking wedges of land. The largest contiguous area the army controls is around
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By JENNIFER McDERMOTT Associated Press Nations are trying to reach an agreement to charge commercial vessels a fee for their emissions in what would effectively be the world’s first global carbon tax. The International Maritime Organization, which regulates international shipping, set a target for the sector to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by about 2050,
Continue Reading By JENNIFER McDERMOTT Associated Press Nations are trying to reach an agreement to charge commercial vessels a fee for their emissions in what would effectively be the world’s first global carbon tax. The International Maritime Organization, which regulates international shipping, set a target for the sector to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by about 2050,
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Dos inspectores fronterizos de Estados Unidos en el sur de California fueron acusados de aceptar miles de dólares en sobornos para permitir que personas ingresaran al país a través del puerto de entrada más transitado del país sin mostrar documentos, dijeron los fiscales. Los oficiales de Aduanas y Protección Fronteriza de Estados Unidos,
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani security forces raided a militant hideout in the restive northwest near the Afghan border, killing nine militants, the military said Monday. The military said in a statement that a high-value militant whom it identified as Shireen was among the insurgents killed in Dera Ismail Khan, a city in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Continue ReadingAbeer Salman, Dana Karni, Hira Humayun e Irene Nasser Soldados israelíes mataron a un adolescente palestino-estadounidense e hirieron a otros dos este domingo en la Ribera Occidental ocupada, según funcionarios palestinos. La gobernadora de Ramallah, Laila Ghannam, informó que un niño palestino-estadounidense de 14 años murió a causa de disparos de tropas israelíes en la
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