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October 17, 2024

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Published October 17, 2024

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Myanmar milit extends ceasefire to facilitate quake relief
CHIANG MAI — Myanmar’s milit regime has announced an extension of a ceasefire in its conflict with ethnic rebels until the end of the month to facilitate relief efforts in the wake of the deadly March earthquake, despite widespread reports that it repeatedly violated its previous two cessations of hostilities. In a statement released on…
Police charge 2nd suspect with murder in the death of a Super Bowl reporter at his hotel
Louisiana authorities on Monday charged a second suspect with murder in the death of a television reporter who had traveled to New Orleans to cover the Super Bowl. Adan Manzano, a 27-year-old reporter and anchor for Telemundo based in Kansas City, Missouri, was found dead Feb. 5 in his hotel room in the New Orleans…
Critics question Trump baby bonus proposal: ‘It’s just completely bananas’
President Donald Trump’s administration has been exploring ways to increase the country’s birth rate, with the president himself saying he wouldn’t mind being known as the “fertilization president.” But congressional Democrats and activists say Republicans have long overlooked the growing cost of having and raising children and ignore policy solutions that are readily available. “If…
Angus King III, son of the Maine senator, launches a run for governor
Angus King III, an energy executive and a son of independent Sen. Angus King Jr. of Maine, will run for governor as a Democrat, he announced Tuesday. King wants to follow in the footsteps of his father, who served two terms as governor from 1995 to 2003. And he’s vying to replace term-limited Gov.…
American climber dies on world’s fifth-highest peak in Nepal
KATHMANDU, Nepal — An American mountaineer died on Mount Makalu in eastern Nepal during a climb to raise funds for a children’s cancer program, officials said Tuesday, the second death in the Himalayan nation’s climbing season that began in March. The world’s fifth-highest mountain, Makalu’s peak is 28,000 feet high — almost as tall as Mount Everest, the world’s…
U.S. and Philippine forces cancel ship-sinking drill after World War II-era target prematurely sinks
MANILA, Philippines — A World War II-era Philippine navy ship to be used as a target in a combat exercise by American and Philippine forces accidentally sank Monday hours before the mock assault, prompting the drill to be canceled, U.S. and Philippine milit officials said. The BRP Miguel Malvar, which was decommissioned by the Philippine…
Germany’s Merz fails to be elected chancellor by parliament in historic first
German conservative leader Friedrich Merz failed to garner the parliament majority needed to become chancellor on Tuesday in a first round of voting in an unexpected setback for his new coalition with the center-left Social Democrats. Merz, 69, who led his CDU/CSU conservatives to win a federal election in Febru and since secured a coalition deal with the center-left…
Olympians revamp the sport of track with new professional league
MIRAMAR, Fla. — The homestretch of a track is a familiar place for American sprint legend Michael Johnson. That’s where he broke nine world records. And at the Atlanta Olympics in 1996, it was where he pulled away from the competition for two of his four Olympic golds. Now, near Miami, he can reflect on…
McDonald’s, Wendy’s and other burger joints are leaning into chicken
Chicken: It’s what’s for dinner — even at major restaurant chains long known as temples to beef. The first permanent menu item McDonald’s has rolled out in four years consists entirely of white meat. In introducing McCrispy Strips last month, the fast-food giant acknowledged that diners “have made one thing clear: they want more chicken.”…