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The leader of Myanmar’s ruling military junta made a rare call for help from the international community after an deadly earthquake hit near the country’s second-largest city. “I have personally visited some affected sites to assess the situation. I would like to call upon everyone to join hands and support the ongoing rescue missions,” Min Aung Hlaing said in a televised speech on Friday. “I have declared a state of emergency and requested international assistance,” Min Aung Hlaing continued, adding that India will be sending assistance. “I would like to extend an open invitation to any organizations and nations willing…
CNN — A federal appeals court on Friday let President Donald Trump remove for now the chair of a critical “merit board” that reviews federal firings, and a member of the National Labor Relations Board, handing the president a major win in his efforts to control independent federal agencies and potentially hobbling both agencies by depriving them of a quorum. The emergency order issued by the DC US Circuit Court of Appeals removes Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) chairwoman Cathy Harris and NLRB member Gwynne Wilcox from their posts while their legal cases move forward. They previously argued that Trump…
Bangkok, Thailand CNN — A 7.7-magnitude earthquake hit the heart of war-ravaged Myanmar of Friday, killing scores of people and prompting the country’s military junta to make a rare plea for international assistance. The earthquake cut through a vast and varied corner of Southeast Asia, sending terrifying tremors through rural villages caught in the middle of Myanmar’s civil war all the way to the glitzy high-rises of the traffic-filled Thai capital Bangkok. Shaking was even felt across the border in China’s southwestern remote and mountainous Yunnan province. At least 144 people have been killed and more than 730 injured, the…
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Before Leigh Steinberg earned widespread fame as the “real Jerry Maguire,” he was already a household name among sports enthusiasts, representing professional athletes such as former NFL quarterbacks Troy Aikman and Steve Young, as well as defensive end Bruce Smith, in the 1980s.In 1996, Hollywood star Tom Cruise portrayed Steinberg in the comedy-drama “Jerry Maguire,” alongside Renée Zellweger and Cuba Gooding Jr., among others, in a story that mapped out the situational representation of top talent in cutthroat industries like the NFL and MLB.”I think that it humanized sports agents in the minds of the public and showed that there’s…
Mike Wolfe is keeping the memory of his late co-star and dear friend Frank Fritz alive. The “American Pickers” dynamic duo had a special friendship and starred on the hit show together for over a decade.”Every day we think about Frank on set. He was such a big part of the show. He was my friend since 8th grade. And a lot of times when we are traveling through a property there are so many things that capture our attention that connect us to him,” Wolfe said in an interview with the New York Post. ‘AMERICAN PICKERS’ STARS FRANK FRITZ, MIKE WOLFE…
CNN — Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the most senior liberal on the Supreme Court, advocated for a “fearlessly independent” judiciary during remarks Friday, telling an audience in Washington that she is worried about “standards that are being changed.” “One of the things that’s troubling so many right now is many of the standards that are being changed … were norms that governed officials into what was right and wrong,” Sotomayor told an audience at Georgetown University. “Once norms are broken then you’re shaking some of the foundation of the rule of law,” she added. Sotomayor did not directly mention President Donald…
CNN — A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from dismantling the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in one of the most significant rulings yet against its efforts to dramatically shrink the federal government. The new preliminary injunction “maintains the agency’s existence until this case has been resolved on the merits,” Judge Amy Berman Jackson wrote in her 112-page ruling Friday, by “reinstating and preserving the agency’s contracts, work force, data, and operational capacity, and protecting and facilitating the employees’ ability to perform statutorily required activities.” Jackson’s ruling also tees up for an appeal a case that will…
New York CNN — US stocks tumbled Friday and a broad selloff gripped Wall Street as investors digested slightly stubborn inflation data and weakening consumer sentiment while wrestling with continued tariff anxiety. The Dow tumbled and closed lower by 716 points, or 1.7%. The broader S&P 500 fell 1.97% and the Nasdaq Composite slid 2.7%. The slide on Friday put all three major indexes in the red for this week. The S&P 500 is down more than 5% this year. The benchmark index is on track for its first losing quarter since September 2023 and its worst quarter since September…