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    After devastating earthquake in Myanmar, China filling vacuum left by USAID's absence

    3/31/2025 - 6:55 pm

    The true impact of the massive earthquake in Myanmar is starting to reveal itself. The military government says the official death toll is more than 2,000 people and hundreds are still missing. Thousands more are injured and homeless. Nick Schifrin reports on the latest and talks with Chris Milligan, a former USAID mission director to Myanmar.

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    President of the far-right Rassemblement National (RN) parliamentary group Marine Le Pen poses prior to an interview on th...

    News Wrap: Le Pen banned from public office in France after embezzlement conviction

    3/31/2025 - 6:50 pm

    In our news wrap Monday, a court in France found far-right politician Marine Le Pen guilty of embezzlement and barred her from running for office for the next five years, the Israeli military ordered sweeping evacuations in the southern Gaza city of Rafah and three U.S. have been found dead in Lithuania after four went missing during a training exercise.

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    Venezuelan migrants arrive on a flight after being deported from the United States, in Caracas

    Trump administration deports more immigrants to El Salvador amid battle with judiciary

    3/31/2025 - 6:45 pm

    The State Department deported more immigrants to El Salvador over the weekend. Secretary of State Marco Rubio called the removals a "successful counter-terrorism operation." It comes after a federal judge had blocked the administration from invoking a rare wartime authority to deport hundreds of migrants without due process. William Brangham discussed more with Deborah Pearl-Stine.

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    Creanne Shrilall, a medical laboratory technician at the Wits Antiviral Gene Therapy Research Unit (AGTRU), works in Johan...

    Scientists sound alarm on Trump administration's dismantling of research funding

    3/31/2025 - 6:35 pm

    The Trump administration is waging a 'wholesale assault on U.S. science' that threatens the country's health, economic development, national security and scientific preeminence. That's according to an open letter published by nearly 2,000 doctors, scientists and researchers. William Brangham discussed the letter with Dr. Steven Woolf, one of its authors.

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How Smokey Bear Became an Icon and a Real Life Neighbor in Washington DC

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In 1950, an orphaned bear cub was rescued from a wildfire in New Mexico and brought to Washington to live at the National Zoo. Named "Smokey" after the popular Forest Service character, the cub became a real life advocate for fire prevention and got so much fan mail that the U.S. Postal Service gave him his own private D.C. zipcode.

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A Black Arlington Neighborhood was Destroyed to Build the Pentagon

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In 1941, the U.S. was preparing for World War II. Residents of Queen City, a tight-knit Black neighborhood in Arlington, watched in awe as nearly 15,000 workers erected the Pentagon on a plot of federally-owned land next to their community. Some had enlisted, while others worked for the federal government. But then the government came for their shops, their churches and even their homes.

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When the President Commuted to the Oval Office from Alexandria, VA

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After Richard Nixon resigned during the Watergate scandal, Gerald Ford found himself in uncharted territory. When Ford took the oath of office on August 9, 1974, the White House was not yet ready for him. So, for the first 10 days of his Presidency, Ford commuted to the Oval Office and his suburban neighborhood home in Alexandria, Virginia became the unlikely epicenter of American politics.

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