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Dale Willman
Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Willman. Officials in Myanmar say more than 1,000 people have died following one of the most powerful earthquakes to hit the area in recent memory. The BBC's Caroline Hawley describes what's happening.
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Caroline Hawley
On the ground in Myanmar's second largest city. There's panic on the streets. Mandalay, 10 miles from the epicenter, is home to one and a half million people, buildings dangerously disfigured and fallen in on themselves after the earth moved beneath them. This woman's trapped with her baby boy. Her legs are caught under rubble on the ground floor of a damaged building in the capital, Naypyidawa, a painstaking effort to get her free.
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Dale Willman
The BBC's Caroline Hawley reporting. President Trump spoke with the new Canadian prime minister on Friday. It was the first time the two have spoken. They discussed a potential trade war between the two countries. Afterward, Trump said the call was extremely productive. Mark Carney agreed with that sentiment, but added that Canada cannot be pushed around. Canada is strong, but we're even stronger when we are united. And our response to these latest tariffs is to fight, to protect and to build. Carney's office says negotiations over a new relationship with the U.S. will begin after Canada's election on April 28. President Trump signed an executive order this week that was aimed at what he called restoring truth and sanity to American history. Among other things, it aims to restore some public monuments and statues that have been removed. As NPR's Isabella Gomez Sarmiento reports, President.
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Isabella Gomez Sarmiento
Trump's executive order calls for removing, quote, divisive race centered ideology from museums and research centers. It also calls on the secretary of the Interior to determine whether any monuments, statues and memorials under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior have been removed or renamed to, quote, perpetuate a false reconstruction of American history. I'm not actually aware of any removals.
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Alejandra Barunda
On National Park Service land.
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Isabella Gomez Sarmiento
Seth Levy of the Southern Poverty Law center says although the racial reckoning of 2020 led to the removal or renaming of more than 200 Confederate symbols, many of those were on land controlled by municipalities and state governments. It's unclear how many sites will be impacted by the new order. Isabella Gomez Sarmiento, NPR News.
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Dale Willman
An FAA investigation is underway into what it calls a close call incident at Reagan national airport in Washington, D.C. on Friday. The FAA says a commercial flight operated by Delta, was about to take off when an onboard alert signaling a potential collision went off. There were four US Air Force Talon jets in the area at the time of the incident. Traffic controllers gave the planes new flight directions to avoid a potential collision. The airport was the site of a fatal accident between a commercial airliner and a military helicopter earlier this year. You're listening to NPR News. Sea ice covering the Arctic Ocean hit its yearly high this week before it begins to melt away in the warmer months. This year's maximum, though, is the smallest it's ever been. Pierre's alejandra Barunda reports.
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Alejandra Barunda
100 years ago and even farther back in time, sea ice used to cover most of the Arctic Ocean for most of the year. It would shrink a little during summertime and get bigger during winter, maxing out right about now. But over time, those biggest moments have shrunk. And this year, according to a preliminary report from the National Snow and Ice Data center, the sea ice peak was smaller than ever before. Healthy Arctic sea ice helps keep the whole planet cooler year round. When there's less of it, subsistence hunters and polar bears struggle to catch food, and weather patterns around the world can change. Scientists say human caused climate change is driving the ice loss. Alejandra Barunda, NPR News.
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Dale Willman
Texas health officials say the measles outbreak in the western part of that state has now reached 400 infections. The outbreak there began two months ago. Texas, New Mexico, Ohio, Kansas and Oklahoma all have active outbreaks underway. Oklahoma has reported nine cases. Measles is preventable through the use of vaccines. Individual cases of measles have also been reported in 15 other states. The FDA's top vaccine expert has resigned. Dr. Peter Marks played a key role during the COVID pandemic in the development of the COVID 19 vaccines. His resignation letter was released on Friday. In it, he was critical of Health and Human Services director Robert Kennedy Jr. Saying he wants subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies. I'm Dale Willman, NPR News.
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