A Muslim boy performs Eid al-Fitr prayers, marking the end of the fasting month of Ramadan in Lagos, Nigeria, Sunday, March 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)2025-03-31T05:34:06Z Muslims are celebrating Eid al-Fitr, a festive holiday marking the end of the fasting month of Ramadan.Families gathered for special prayers followed by feasts and holiday sweets starting Sunday after a month of dawn-to-dusk fasting. Muslims typically mark the holiday with family visits and outings, and children get new clothes.Families also visit the graves of loved ones, and the suffering of Muslims in the Gaza Strip and other conflict zones was never far from peoples minds.In Gaza, Palestinians prayed among the ruins of mosques destroyed by Israeli strikes, and many went hungry as Israel maintained a nearly monthlong halt to the entry of food, fuel and humanitarian aid, part of its renewed war with the Hamas militant group.Elsewhere in the Middle East, Syrians are celebrating their first Eid al-Fitr since the overthrow of President Bashar Assad, as the country navigates a troubled transition after his familys half-century autocratic rule.In the United States, several supporters of Palestinian causes with ties to American universities have been detained in the Trump administrations crackdown on immigrants.This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors.

Yahya Edward Hendrawan, who is also known as 'Yahya the Clown', gives an Islamic religious class during a Ramadan event at an elementary school in Tangerang, Indonesia, Wednesday, March 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)2025-03-31T03:11:20Z TANGERANG, Indonesia (AP) Wearing a colorful costume, red nose and a turban on his head, Yahya Hendrawan performs as a clown in Indonesian schools, teaching Islamic values to children and teenagers.He started out working birthday parties as a side hustle. But in 2010 his religious teacher encouraged him to become a modern-day Abu Nawas, a legendary Arabic poet known for his wit, wisdom, humor and clever wordplay, so he could bring a cheerful, lighthearted approach to teaching religion.Hendrawan, now known as Yahya Badut, or Yahya the Clown, has embraced that vision. He founded, along with some fellow clowns, the Sharia Clown Foundation, a neighborhood initiative that blends entertainment with religious education. Hendrawan teaches every weekday afternoon in a library at his house and occasionally at a school or orphanage with his clown partners. He often begins lessons with a cheerful song, encouraging children to share a smile. Other clowns open with magic tricks.There is a hadith that says: Your sweet smile in front of your brothers is charity. So we must prioritize smiles and greetings. When meeting friends, shaking hands, smile .. You are good. I am good. Thank God, Hendrawan said.By being funny and cheerful, Hendrawan says he hopes the children will quickly absorb his lessons about morals, manners and Islamic values.

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In this image made from a video released by the Israeli Government Press Office, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a statement Tuesday, March 18, 2025, in Tel Aviv, Israel. (Israeli Government Press Office via AP)2025-03-31T06:12:07Z Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has nominated a new domestic security chief, after he moved to fire the current one over a crisis of confidence that critics say was politically motivated.Netanyahu on Monday nominated former Navy commander Vice Adm. Eli Sharvit to lead the agency, which surveils and thwarts attacks from Palestinian militant groups.Earlier this month, Netanyahu moved to fire Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar, a step that sparked an uproar in Israel. Netanyahu said he lost faith in Bar over Hamas Oct. 7, 2023 attacks and disagreements over ceasefire negotiations. But critics said the dismissal undermined Israels independent state institutions and came at a problematic time, as Bar and the agency were investigating links between the Gulf state of Qatar and close advisers to Netanyahu.Israels High Court froze Bars dismissal pending further hearings but cleared the way for Netanyahu to interview candidates for the job. ___Heres the latest: Former Israeli hostage calls on Trump to end war in GazaA former Israeli hostage who learned upon his release that his wife and two young children were killed in captivity in Gaza called on U.S. President Donald Trump to bring an end to the war in Gaza.In his first media interview since being freed in a ceasefire last month, Yarden Bibas told CBS 60 Minutes on Sunday that Trump was the only one who can convince Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hamas to halt the renewed fighting.He said as a hostage, as he was held in Hamas underground tunnels, Israeli strikes were terrifying. Youre afraid for your life, he said. Everything could collapse at any moment. He said his captors, who had taunted him over his familys fate, told him youll get a new wife. New kids. Better wife. Better kids.Please stop the war and help bring all the hostages back, Bibas called on Trump. UN releases footage from Gaza operation to recover first responders killed by Israeli forcesThe United Nations has released footage from the operation to recover 15 first responders killed by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip.The footage released Sunday showed members of the Civil Defense, first responders who operate under the Hamas-run government, exhuming a body from a mound of sand. The body was wearing the same orange vest as the rescuers.The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies called it the deadliest attack on its workers since 2017.Israel said its forces opened fire on several vehicles that raised suspicions by advancing without headlights or emergency signals. The military said a Hamas operative and eight other militants were among those killed.The United Nations humanitarian office said eight Red Crescent workers, six members of the Civil Defense and a U.N. worker were killed.The shooting occurred when Israeli forces launched a surprise ground incursion into the Tel al-Sultan neighborhood of Rafah on March 23.

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French far-right leader Marine Le Pen arrives at the courtroom for the trial over the suspected embezzlement of European Parliament funds, Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024 in Paris. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard, File)2025-03-31T06:43:01Z PARIS (AP) A Paris court is expected to deliver a verdict Monday in an embezzlement case that could shake up French politics and derail far-right leader Marine Le Pen s career.Le Pen and 24 other officials from her National Rally are accused of having used money intended for European Union parliamentary aides to pay staff who worked for the party between 2004 and 2016, in violation of the 27-nation blocs regulations. Le Pen and her co-defendants deny wrongdoing.The biggest concern for Le Pen is that the court may declare her ineligible to run for office with immediate effect even if she appeals. That could prevent her from running for president in 2027. She has described such scenario as a political death.The Constitutional Council ruled Friday, in a separate case, that imposing the punishment immediately was constitutional. With so many defendants, the verdict could take several hours for the chief judge to read out, meaning Le Pen may not learn her fate immediately when the proceedings start. If found guilty, Le Pen and her co-defendants also face up to 10 years in prison a verdict they could appeal. That would lead to another trial. Le Pen, 56, was runner-up to President Emmanuel Macron in the 2017 and 2022 presidential elections, and her partys electoral support has grown in recent years.During the nine-week trial that took place in late 2024, she argued that ineligibility would have the effect of depriving me of being a presidential candidate and disenfranchise her supporters. There are 11 million people who voted for the movement I represent. So tomorrow, potentially, millions and millions of French people would see themselves deprived of their candidate in the election, she told the panel of three judges. Le Pen denied accusations she was at the head of a system meant to siphon off EU parliament money to benefit her party, which she led from 2011 to 2021. She argued instead that it was acceptable to adapt the work of the aides paid by the European Parliament to the needs of the lawmakers, including some highly political work related to the party, which was called the National Front at the time.While testifying, Le Pen told the court: I absolutely dont feel I have committed the slightest irregularity, the slightest illegal move.Hearings showed that some EU money was used to pay for Le Pens bodyguard who was once her fathers bodyguard as well as her personal assistant.Prosecutors asked the court to declare Le Pen guilty, requesting a two-year prison sentence and a five-year period of ineligibility. Le Pen said she felt they were only interested in preventing her from running for president.Prosecutors also requested a guilty verdict for all the other co-defendants, including various sentences of up to one year in prison and a 2-million-euro ($2.2 million) fine for the party. SYLVIE CORBET Corbet is an Associated Press reporter based in Paris. She covers French politics, diplomacy and defense as well as gender issues and breaking news. twitter

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Hassan Abu Sultan mourns over the body of her son Jehad, who, along with his wife and three children, was killed when an Israeli army strike hit their tent, as heir bodies lie on the floor at a hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, awaiting burial on the first day of the Muslim holiday of Eid, Sunday, March 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)2025-03-31T06:54:36Z DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) The Israeli military on Monday issued sweeping evacuation orders covering most of Rafah, indicating it could soon launch another major ground operation in the southernmost city in the Gaza Strip. Israel ended its ceasefire with the Hamas militant group and renewed its air and ground war earlier this month. At the beginning of March it cut off all supplies of food, fuel, medicine and humanitarian aid to the territorys roughly 2 million Palestinians to pressure Hamas to accept changes to the truce agreement.The evacuation orders appeared to cover nearly all of the city and nearby areas. The military ordered Palestinians to head to Muwasi, a sprawl of squalid tent camps along the coast. The orders came during Eid al-Fitr, a normally festive Muslim holiday marking the end of the fasting month of Ramadan. Israel launched a major operation in Rafah, on the border with Egypt, last May, leaving large parts of it in ruins. The military seized a strategic corridor along the border as well as the Rafah crossing with Egypt, Gazas only gateway to the outside world that was not controlled by Israel. Israel was supposed to withdraw from the corridor under the ceasefire it signed with Hamas in January under U.S. pressure, but it later refused to, citing the need to prevent weapons smuggling.Israel has vowed to intensify its military operations until Hamas releases the remaining 59 hostages it holds 24 of whom are believed to be alive. Israel has also demanded that Hamas disarm and leave the territory, conditions that were not included in the ceasefire agreement and which Hamas has rejected. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that Israel would take charge of security in Gaza after the war and implement U.S. President Donald Trumps proposal to resettle Gazas population in other countries, describing it as voluntary emigration. That plan has been universally rejected by Palestinians, who view it as forcible expulsion from their homeland, and human rights experts say it would likely violate international law.Hamas, meanwhile, has insisted on implementing the signed agreement, which called for the remainder of the hostages to be released in exchange for a lasting ceasefire and an Israeli pullout. Negotiations over those parts of the agreement were supposed to have begun in February but only preliminary talks have been held.The war began when Hamas-led militants stormed into Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, rampaging through army bases and farming communities and killing some 1,200 people, mostly civilians. The militants took another 251 people hostage, most of whom have since been released in ceasefires or other deals.Israels retaliatory offensive has killed more than 50,000 Palestinians, according to Gazas Health Ministry, which does not say how many were civilians or combatants. At its height, the war had displaced some 90% of Gazas population, with many fleeing multiple times.Large areas of Gaza have been completely destroyed, and its unclear how or when anything will be rebuilt.___Follow APs war coverage at https://apnews.com/hub/israel-hamas-war RSShttps://feedx.net https://feedx.site

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Bangkok Gov. Chadchart Sittipunt talks to the media at the site of an under-construction high-rise building that collapsed after an earthquake in Bangkok, Thailand, Monday, March, 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)2025-03-31T08:34:53Z BANGKOK (AP) Thai authorities said Monday they are investigating why a single office tower under construction in Bangkok collapsed during an earthquake Friday that otherwise caused limited damage in the capital.Bangkok Governor Chadchart Sittipunt visited the site as heavy equipment pulled away rubble from the 30-story building in hopes of finding survivors among the 78 people still missing.He said it is most urgent to first concentrate on finding whoever might be saved. Even one life saved is worth all the effort, so I think we have to move on, carry on, he said.But in the longer run its important to ensure building safety in the city, which has millions of people living and working in thousands of high-rise buildings. The magnitude 7.7 quake centered more than 800 miles (1,200 kilometers) away killed more than 1,700 people in Myanmar and at least 18 in Thailand, most at the Bangkok construction site near the popular Chatuchak Market. Whats important in the long-term and medium-term, I think we need to find the root cause so at least we can learn some lessons and improve building regulations, he said. In the end, we will have some results that will improve safety in Bangkok. Shares in the property developer handling the project, Italian Thai Development, sank 27% on Monday as questions were raised about the high-rises design, enforcement of construction safety codes, and the state-run Chinese contractor building the structure, the State Audit Office building. Interior Minister Anutin Charnvirakul, whose family owns one of Thailands largest construction conglomerates, told reporters he ordered an investigation committee to be set up and to report the results back to him within seven days.He pointed to three possible factors: the designer, the inspectors or the builders.We will definitely find the true reasons as to why this building has collapsed, because its all scientific, Anutin said. Although it does not sit near a geologic fault, Bangkok is built on relatively unstable alluvial soil, on the banks of the Chao Phraya River. The city has long been sinking under the weight of its many tall buildings, leading authorities to restrict the use of groundwater to help reduce subsidence.The Myanmar quake Friday gave the city an unusually long and strong jolt, causing water from rooftop pools to cascade down skyscrapers, light-rail trains to rock on their tracks, and millions of people to flee homes and apartment buildings. Many people waited for hours to see if their homes and offices were safe.Most other damage in the city appeared to be superficial, such as fallen ceiling panels and fittings and cracked plaster. ELAINE KURTENBACH Based in Bangkok, Kurtenbach is the APs business editor for Asia, helping to improve and expand our coverage of regional economies, climate change and the transition toward carbon-free energy. She has been covering economic, social, environmental and political trends in China, Japan and Southeast Asia throughout her career. twitter mailto

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Smoke rises from a location reportedly struck by U.S. airstrikes in Sanaa, Yemen, Sunday, March 30, 2025. (AP Photo)2025-03-31T03:28:47Z DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) Suspected U.S. airstrikes struck around Yemens rebel-held capital overnight into Monday morning, attacks that the Iranian-backed Houthis said killed at least three people. The full extent of the damage wasnt immediately clear. The attacks followed a night of airstrikes early Friday that appeared particularly intense compared to other days in the campaign that began March 15. The strikes around Sanaa, Yemens capital held by the Houthis since 2014, and Hajjah governorate also wounded 12 others, the rebels said. Their Al-Masirah satellite news channel aired footage of broken glass littering homes in Sanaa after the concussive blast of the bombs, but continued not to show the targets of the attacks suggesting the sites had a military or intelligence function. Strikes there killed one person, the rebels said. Another strike targeting a pickup truck in Hajjah killed two people and wounded a child, the Houthis said. It marked the first, publicly known time the American strikes targeted a vehicle in this campaign. An Associated Press review has found the new American operation against the Houthis under President Donald Trump appears more extensive than those under former President Joe Biden, as the U.S. moves from solely targeting launch sites to firing at ranking personnel as well as dropping bombs in cities. The new campaign of airstrikes, which the Houthis now say have killed at least 61 people, started after the rebels threatened to begin targeting Israeli ships again over Israel blocking aid entering the Gaza Strip. The rebels in the past loosely defined what constitutes an Israeli ship, meaning other vessels could be targeted. The Houthis had targeted over 100 merchant vessels with missiles and drones, sinking two vessels and killing four sailors from November 2023 until January of this year. They also launched attacks targeting American warships, though none has been hit so far.The attacks greatly raised the Houthis profile as they faced economic problems and launched a crackdown targeting any dissent and aid workers at home amid Yemens decadelong stalemated war that has torn apart the Arab worlds poorest nation. JON GAMBRELL Gambrell is the news director for the Gulf and Iran for The Associated Press. He has reported from each of the Gulf Cooperation Council countries, Iran and other locations across the world since joining the AP in 2006. twitter instagram mailto

A member of the military looks on in front of newly-installed concertina wire lining one of two border walls separating Mexico from the United States during a news conference on joint operations involving the military and the Border Patrol, March 21, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)2025-03-31T11:14:46Z WASHINGTON (AP) Immigration remains a strength for President Donald Trump, but his handling of tariffs is getting more negative feedback, according to a poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.About half of U.S. adults approve of Trumps approach to immigration, the survey shows, but only about 4 in 10 have a positive view of the way hes handling the economy and trade negotiations.The poll indicates that many Americans are still on board with Trumps efforts to ramp up deportations and restrict immigration. But it also suggests that the Republican presidents threats to impose tariffs which have been accompanied by tumbling consumer confidence and wild stock market swings might be erasing his advantage on another issue that he made central to his winning 2024 campaign.The economy was a drag on then-President Joe Biden, who saw the share of Americans who approved of his handling of the economy fall to a low of roughly 3 in 10 in 2023. Trump drew considerable strength in November from voters who prioritized the economy, but just before he took office in January, an AP-NORC poll found that few Americans had high confidence that hed make progress on lowering prices in his first year. Views of Trumps job performance overall are more negative than positive, the survey found. About 4 in 10 U.S. adults approve of the way Trump is handling his job as president, and more than half disapprove. Negative opinions are also stronger than positive opinions about 4 in 10 U.S. adults strongly disapprove of Trumps job performance, while about 2 in 10 strongly approve. Trumps job approval is highest on immigrationMore U.S. adults say they approve of Trumps handling of immigration than his approach to the presidency as a whole.That trend even extends to Democrats. Relatively few, about 2 in 10, say theyre on board with how Trump is approaching immigration, but thats higher than the roughly 1 in 10 who approve of his handling of the economy and his job as a whole.The durability of Trumps appeal on immigration underscores that many U.S. adults support his tough approach, which he has prioritized in the first few months of his second term.In the past few weeks, Trumps administration has been locked in a court struggle over the deportation of Venezuelan immigrants to El Salvador under an 18th century wartime law, made moves to deport foreign students who took part in pro-Palestinian demonstrations at colleges, and attempted to suspend the nations refugee admissions system.Voters who said immigration was their most important issue last November overwhelmingly favored more restrictive policies, according to AP VoteCast, a sweeping survey of more than 120,000 voters. The issue was also a higher priority for Americans heading into 2025 than it had been the previous year.Signs of potential weakness on trade and the economyThere are warning signs for Trump in the poll, too, particularly in Americans assessment of his work on tariffs and the economy.Trade negotiations with other countries is the issue on which hes rated especially negatively, with about 6 in 10 U.S. adults saying they disapprove of his job performance. Its a relative low point, even among Republicans. About 7 in 10 Republicans approve of Trumps handling of trade still relatively high, but lower than the roughly 9 in 10 who approve of his approach on immigration. Trumps approach on other issues including managing the federal government, his handling of foreign conflicts, Social Security and the economy roughly track with his overall job approval.But even though the economy doesnt stand out quite as starkly as trade negotiations, Trumps relatively low rating on that issue could be a problem for him going forward. During his first term, the economy was an issue on which Americans frequently gave Trump good marks. In October 2020, just before he lost reelection, an AP-NORC poll found that about half of U.S. adults approved of Trumps handling of the economy, putting the rating far above his performance on race relations and the COVID-19 pandemic. Prices and economic growth were also a major motivator for the voters who sent Trump back to the White House for a second term. Trump won overwhelmingly among voters who said the economy was the most important issue facing the country, AP VoteCast found, and he was also the choice of most voters who said that inflation was the most important issue for their vote.Now, Trumps stewardship of the economy is being put to the test again and the AP-NORC poll isnt the only sign that his threats of tariffs are making everyday Americans nervous. Consumer confidence has been falling over the past few months. Trump has argued that tariffs would bring more jobs in the auto industry to the U.S. and narrow the budget deficit, but prices on imported cars could also rise steeply if some of the costs of the taxes are passed along to consumers. ___The AP-NORC poll of 1,229 adults was conducted March 20-24, using a sample drawn from NORCs probability-based AmeriSpeak Panel, which is designed to be representative of the U.S. population. The margin of sampling error for adults overall is plus or minus 3.9 percentage points. AMELIA THOMSON-DEVEAUX Thomson-DeVeaux is the APs editor for polling and surveys. LINLEY SANDERS Sanders is a polls and surveys reporter for The Associated Press. She develops and writes about polls conducted by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, and works on AP VoteCast. twitter

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In this photo taken from video distributed by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Sunday, March 30, 2025, a Russian Army 2S5 howitzer Giatsint-S fires towards Ukrainian positions in Ukraine. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)2025-03-31T12:11:33Z Russia views efforts to end its three-year war with Ukraine as a drawn-out process, a Kremlin spokesman said Monday, after U.S. President Donald Trump expressed frustration with the two countries leaders as he tries to bring about a truce.We are working to implement some ideas in connection with the Ukrainian settlement. This work is ongoing, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in a conference call with reporters.There is nothing concrete yet that we could and should announce. This is a drawn-out process because of the difficulty of its substance, he said when asked about Trumps anger at Russian President Vladimir Putins comments dismissing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyys legitimacy to negotiate a deal.Russia has effectively rejected a U.S. proposal for a full and immediate 30-day halt in the fighting. The feasibility of a partial ceasefire on the Black Sea, used by both countries to transport shipments of grain and other cargo, was cast into doubt after Kremlin negotiators imposed far-reaching conditions. Trump promised during last years U.S. election campaign that he would bring Europes biggest conflict since World War II to a swift conclusion. Peskov didnt directly address Trumps criticism of Putin on Sunday when he said he was angry, pissed off that Putin had questioned Zelenskyys credibility as leader.But he said that Putin remains absolutely open to contacts with the U.S. president and was ready to speak to Trump. Both countries are preparing for a spring-summer campaign on the battlefield, analysts and Ukrainian and Western officials say.Zelenskyy said late Sunday that there has been no let-up in Russias attacks as it drives on with its invasion of its neighbor that began in February 2022. He said the attacks demonstrated Russias unwillingness to forge a settlement.The geography and brutality of Russian strikes, not just occasionally, but literally every day and night, show that Putin couldnt care less about diplomacy, Zelenskyy said in his daily address. And almost every day, in response to this proposal, there are Russian drones, bombs, artillery shelling, and ballistic strikes, he said.He urged further international pressure on Moscow to compel Russia to negotiate, including new sanctions.Trump said he would consider adding further sanctions on Russia, which already faces steep financial penalties, and using tariffs to undermine its oil exports.Kharkiv, Ukraines second-largest city, came under another Russian drone attack overnight, injuring three people, the Ukrainian Interior Ministry said Monday.Russia also fired two ballistic missiles and 131 Shahed and decoy drones, the Ukrainian air force said.Meanwhile, Russias Defense Ministry said air defenses shot down 66 Ukrainian drones early Monday over three Russian regions.The continuing attacks by the Ukrainian armed forces on Russias energy facilities show the complete lack of respect for any obligations related to the settlement of the conflict in Ukraine by the Kyiv regime, the ministry said in a statement.___Follow APs coverage of the war in Ukraine at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., is pictured during a television interview at the Capitol in Washington, March 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)2025-03-31T11:43:00Z PHOENIX (AP) The Democratic base is angry. Not just at President Donald Trump, Elon Musk and the Make America Great Again movement. Rank-and-file Democrats are mad at their own leaders and increasingly agitating to replace them.Arizona Democrats pushed out their party chair, and Georgia Democrats are on their way to doing the same. And Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York postponed a book tour in the face of protests amid calls from progressives that he face a primary challenge.The losing party after a presidential election often spends time in the wilderness, but the visceral anger among Democrats toward their party leaders is reaching a level reminiscent of the tea party movement that swept out Republican incumbents 15 years ago.They should absolutely be worried about holding onto power, because theres a real energy right now against them, Paco Fabin, deputy director of Our Revolution, a grassroots group allied with independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, said of Democratic incumbents. And as soon as somebody figures out how to harness it, theyre going to be in deep trouble. A deeper hole than previous lossesElections on Tuesday could give national Democrats a boost. In Wisconsin, the officially nonpartisan race for a state Supreme Court seat has become a test of Musks influence as his political organization boosts conservative Brad Schimel and progressives back liberal Susan Crawford, who has made anti-Musk messaging a centerpiece of her campaign. And two U.S. House special elections in Florida feature Democrats who are outraising their Republican counterparts in sharply pro-Trump districts.But the current depth of frustration among Democrats is clear and shows no signs of going away. According to a February Quinnipiac poll, about half disapprove of how Democrats in Congress are handling their job, compared with about 4 in 10 who approve. Thats a stark contrast from the beginning of Joe Bidens presidency in 2021, when more than 8 in 10 Democrats approved of how their party was doing its job in Congress, and the start of Trumps first term in 2017, when about 6 in 10 Democrats approved. In 2017, as they do now, Democrats lacked control of either congressional chamber. A February CNN/SSRS poll found about three-quarters of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents thought Democrats in Congress werent doing enough to oppose Trump.Facing a coordinated and long-planned Republican effort to remake government and fire tens of thousands of federal workers, Democrats have struggled with a unified response. Frustration on the left with elected Democrats began early, when some Democratic senators backed Trump Cabinet nominees and supported legislation targeting illegal immigration. It escalated following Trumps joint address to Congress, when Democratic lawmakers protested by wearing coordinated clothes and holding up signs expressing their discontent. A handful of Democrats then voted with Republicans to censure U.S. Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, who interrupted Trumps speech to Congress and was escorted out of the chamber. Schumer faced the most serious backlash after he refused to block a Republican-led government spending bill and shut down the government. Schumer said blocking the bill would have backfired and played into Trumps hands, but many on the left saw it as capitulation.I want the opposition to be a lot more animated, said Stefan Therrien, a 22-year-old engineering student in Tempe, Arizona, who called Democratic leaders in Congress very passive in a misguided effort to appeal to centrists. Democrats should attack harder.Ken Human, a retired attorney who went to a town hall organized by Democrats in Lexington, Kentucky, said: You have to stand up to bullies because otherwise theyll walk all over you. Anger from a partys base is not unusual after a party loses the presidency.Establishment Republicans faced fierce backlash after Democrat Barack Obama was elected president in 2008, which fueled the rise of the tea party movement that overthrew some of the partys most powerful incumbents and brought in a new cadre of lawmakers laser-focused on obstructing Obamas agenda. Democrats, likewise, were dejected after Republican President George W. Bush was reelected in 2004, but his popularity soon tanked and Democrats could foresee the massive wins they would notch in the 2006 midterms, said Robert Shapiro, a Columbia University professor focused on American politics.Ronald Reagans victory in 1980 was a bigger shock to Democrats because it brought with it a period of Republican ascendance. The GOP won a Senate majority for the first time in nearly 30 years, though Democrats retained control of the House.The setback was significant and startling, but not as much as whats happened today, where you have Trump winning the election at the same time the Republicans have control of both houses of Congress, Shapiro said. Grassroots Democrats were incensed by Trumps first victory with some talk then of primary challengers to leaders but they mostly channeled their anger toward the president and the GOP, planning marches and organizing community groups to prepare for the midterms.Those midterms led to at least one primary upset with future implications: New York Rep. Joe Crowley, the No. 4 House Democrat, fell to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, then a virtual unknown.Angry town halls and new challengersThousands have packed rallies to hear Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez, outsiders who rose to prominence for their sharp criticism of the Democratic establishment. Democrats are getting an earful from constituents at some of the town halls, including events theyre organizing in GOP-controlled districts to draw attention to Republicans avoiding unscripted interactions with voters.In Arizona, which went for Biden in 2020 before flipping to Trump last year, furious party leaders ousted their chair, Yolanda Bejarano. The result was a shock; Bejarano had support from every prominent Democrat in the state and was widely expected to get a second term.U.S. Rep. Nikema Williams, the chair of the Georgia Democratic Party, is in a similarly perilous position after Trump flipped Georgia in 2024. The Georgia partys state committee approved a rules change Saturday making its chairmanship a full-time role, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. That will make it increasingly likely that Williams, keeping her congressional seat, will step down as chair before her term ends in 2027.Kat Abughazaleh, a 26-year-old liberal journalist with a big social media following, decided to run for Congress, saying most Democrats work from an outdated playbook in an announcement video thats fiercely critical of party leaders. They arent meeting the moment, and their constituents are absolutely livid, Abughazaleh said in an interview. She said Rep. Jan Schakowsky, the 80-year-old Democrat who has represented a suburban Chicago district since 1999, has an admirable progressive record, but something needs to change culturally ... about how we do politics and how we campaign.Im done sitting around waiting for someone else to maybe do it, Abughazaleh said. ___Associated Press writer Bruce Schreiner in Lexington, Ky., contributed to this report. JONATHAN J. COOPER Cooper writes about national politics from Arizona and beyond for The Associated Press. Now based in Phoenix, he previously covered politics in Oregon and California. twitter mailto

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Naruemol Thonglek, right, with her daughter, waits for news of her partner, who is missing after the collapse of an under-construction high-rise building after an earthquake in Bangkok, Thailand, Monday, March, 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)2025-03-31T11:42:49Z BANGKOK (AP) When the earthquake that hit Myanmar sent its tremors to Thailand, Naruemon Thonglek didnt immediately know it also had collapsed a high-rise building under construction in Bangkok.Seeing images of the debris on television news later, Naruemon immediately recognized the building where her long-time Burmese partner, his son and four of her friends had worked for the past month.My legs gave up. I lost all strength in my hands, she said. After the quake stopped I called him, messaged him, but there was no response. I couldnt contact him. I sent him voice messages and he never read it. Then I knew for sure that he must have been inside.At least 18 people died in Bangkok, Thailands capital, more than 800 miles (1,287 kilometers) from the center of the magnitude 7.7 quake in Myanmar on Friday, which killed more than 1,700 people there. In Bangkok, 78 people remain missing. Thai authorities are racing against time to find anyone left alive under the ruins as the crucial 72-hour mark passes. While the authorities have said they detected possible sounds of life, so far only one person was pulled alive from the rubble. Tavida Kamolvej, Bangkoks deputy governor, told reporters at the site Monday that crews are speeding up the search.Every second really counts, she said.Among those missing are the mother and younger sister of Chanpen Kaewnoi, who had been working at the site for a couple of months. Chanpen said she couldnt contact them after the quake, but later was told by a survivor that they had been on the fifth floor of the 30-story building.He told me that they ran from the fifth floor, and once he reached the ground, the building just collapsed, she said. He said he couldnt find my mom and my sister. He said it was just a split second and he lost them.Naruemon said her partner, Kyi Tan, and the other five were assigned to work much higher up on the 26th floor. While her partner had extensive construction experience, this was his first high-rise project. As he left home on the morning of the quake, he said he would stay late in the hope of finishing his work by the end of the month. Naruemon and Chanpen said they never heard their family members raise safety concerns while working at the building.The authorities said they are investigating the cause of the building collapse as criticisms and concerns grow over safety and quality standards of Bangkok buildings. Chadchart Sittipunt, the city governor, has ordered a blanket inspection of all high-rise buildings in the capital.Videos of the collapse show the building, which was meant to be a new State Audit Office, shaking a little before tumbling to the ground, sending a huge plume of dust into the sky as people scream and run away.When Naruemon arrived at the site the following day, the scene of the ruins broke her spirit.I had a meltdown. I could only pray. I kept calling for them, she said. I wanted them to come back. I was so devastated. I didnt know what to do.For two days, Naruemon walked around near the site with her family and friends, hoping to see any developments as heavy machines and rescue crews searched for survivors. She prayed and performed a religious rite asking the spirits to protect her loved ones.I want everyone trapped there to be found. In whatever conditions, Im ok with it, she said. Ive already made some peace with it. Its been a few days already. A part of me still hopes they will survive, for a miracle, if it exists. RSShttps://feedx.net https://feedx.site

A Rocket Companies sign is displayed on the exterior of the New York Stock Exchange, Aug. 6, 2020, in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, file)2025-03-31T11:46:31Z The mortgage company Rocket is buying competitor Mr. Cooper in an all-stock deal valued at $9.4 billion, just weeks after acquiring real estate listing company Redfin.Rocket Cos. said Monday that bringing Mr. Cooper Group Inc. into the fold will create a business representing one in every six mortgages in the United States and give it almost 7 million additional clients. The deal will boost loan volumes, the company said, while lowering client acquisition costs. By combining Mr. Cooper and Rocket, we will form the strongest mortgage company in the industry, offering an end-to-end homeownership experience backed by leading technology and grounded in customer care, Mr. Cooper Chairman and CEO Jay Bray, who will become president and CEO of Rocket Mortgage, said in a statement. Bray will report to Rocket Cos. CEO Varun Krishna. Mr. Cooper shareholders will receive a fixed exchange ratio of 11 Rocket shares for each share of Mr. Cooper common stock. Mr. Cooper is based in Coppell, Texas. Rocket shareholders will own approximately 75% of the combined company, while Mr. Cooper stockholders will own about 25%. The combined companys board will have 11 members, with nine being from Rocket and two from Mr. Cooper. Earlier this month Rocket, based in Detroit, announced that it was buying Redfin in an all-stock deal worth $1.75 billion, giving Rocket the ability to provide more of a one-stop shopping experience for potential home buyers. Redfin, which was founded in 2004, has more than 1 million for sale and rental listings on its online platform.The National Association of Realtors announced this month that existing home sales rose 4.2% in February from January to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.26 million units. That was in part thanks to easing mortgage rates and more properties on the market encouraging home shoppers.The U.S. housing sales began to slump in 2022, when mortgage rates began to climb from pandemic-era lows. Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes fell last year to their lowest level in nearly 30 years.

Its probably not a coincidence that some of the most famous tech company CEOs have instantly recognizable looks. Steve Jobss black turtleneck and blue jeans. Palmer Luckys Hawaiian shirts and flip flops. Mark Zuckerbergs wedgieable jeans and t-shirt era followed by his current hypebeast transformation. Much like infamous dictators throughout history, the leaders style at some of the most powerful organizations in the world today lends itself and benefits from a cult of personality and iconography.At this very moment, no company is more powerful and no tech leader fashion item is more iconic than Nvidia CEOs Jensen Huangs leather jacket, which he has been wearing for keynotes and media interviews for years. As his and Nvidias status grew in the tech industry, Huang has leaned into the signature look. For example, he recently promoted robotics company 1X Technologies by accepting a new leather jacket bedazzled with Nvidias stock ticker from one of its robots.The companys chips are in high demand, but judging by the sheer number of online retailers who are trying to steal and sell Huangs look, it appears that his leather jacket is as well.To name just a few examples, a site called Victoria Jacket sells a $97 Jensen Huang Black Leather Jacket. Wilson Jackets sells a $92 Jensen Huang Nvidia CEO Leather Jacket. Paragon Jackets sells a $94 (down from $209!) Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Leather Jacket. Movie Jackets sells a $99-$129 Jensen Huang Black Leather Jacket.BE THE BOSS OF THE FASHION WORLD, a product description for the jacket on hitjacket.com says. Even if you dont have the idea you need something for the working girl style. That is why we are bringing you the working girl staples with a twist. You probably need this kind of Jensen Huang Black Leather Jacket that is sure to uplift the persona of any fashionista. It is one of the coolest picks that has been styled by the popular legendary NVIDIA CEO who has shown the fashion followers a real way to take the styling to the next level.Overall, weve seen 21 different online retailers sell something that claims to be one of Huangs jackets and all of them used his image to promote them.If you know anything about fashion and leather jackets then you already know these prices are highly suspect. Jensens Tom Ford jackets, for example, can run around $10,000. While the descriptions all say they are made of both real leather and faux leather, its more likely to be almost entirely the latter. Additionally, $100 today barely gets you a hoodie at J. Crew, so whatever youll get in the mail if you order one of these is bound to be low quality.I have never heard of those brands. I suspect they're all scam sites or one of the many places using workshops in low-wage countries to do rip-off versions of something in a photo, Derek Guy, a fashion industry writer also known as the menswear guy on X, told me in an email. The work is often bad but they hope that it'll be too much trouble for you to file a refund. You see these companies all over ebay nowadays.Guy told me that hes never seen fashion brands try to promote clothing with an image of a CEO, but that its typical for these brands to take any photo that is popular, including product images from bigger retailers like Mr. Porter, and claim they can reproduce it. The Instagram pages for one of the sites, Hit Jacket, shows exactly what Guy is talking about. It is a wall of images of celebrities that invites viewers to click the link in bio to buy the clothing theyre wearing in the photographs.It's ludicrous to me to think that someone can make that jacket for under $100, Guy said.All the product descriptions Ive seen for these jackets on different retailers are also identical, suggesting that its the same product promoted by different sites. All the sites where the jackets are sold also have very similar layouts and features. They all include business addresses which appear to point to seemingly random places, primarily in the U.S. but at least one address was in China. Some of the addresses I looked up pointed to single family homes, and one address in New York City did not exist. All the sites also featured different phone numbers. I called four of them, which instantly put me on hold with the same holding music.Nvidia and Huang have entered the public consciousness in the last couple of years because the generative AI boom, powered primarily by Nvidia chips, has briefly made it the most powerful company in the world. Among gamers, who have relied on Nvidias GPUs to run the most graphically demanding video games for decades, Huang and his leather jackets are a familiar sight. As you can tell by the images above, theres not one leather jacket Huang is known for, but they all have a similar look and are stylized the same.The leather jacket has a dangerous allure. We all think they look cool, but few of us can pull them off. I was surprised to hear that Guy, whos known for roasting mens bad fashion choices online, thinks that Huang is doing a good job.I think he's pretty stylish, especially for a tech CEO, Guy said. He's narrowed his look to a Steve Jobs calculussticking to the same thing so he doesn't have to choose a new outfit every morning. But it's well put together. I don't know what I would call it, but plenty of people have paired black jeans with black leather jackets, black shirts, and black boots for a chic look. I think he looks good.

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Jude Addo-Chidie, a Ph.D. student in agronomy at Purdue University, places a probe in soil as he takes samples from a corn field July 12, 2023, at the Southeast-Purdue Agricultural Center in Butlerville, Ind. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel, File)2025-03-31T13:38:24Z Erin McGuire spent years cultivating fruits and vegetables like onions, peppers and tomatoes as a scientist and later director of a lab at the University of California-Davis. She collaborated with hundreds of people to breed drought-resistant varieties, develop new ways to cool fresh produce and find ways to make more money for small farmers at home and overseas.Then the funding stopped. Her lab, and by extension many of its overseas partners, were backed financially by the United States Agency for International Development, which Trumps administration has been dismantling for the past several weeks. Just before it was time to collect data that had been two years in the making, her team received a stop work order. She had to lay off her whole team. Soon she was laid off, too.Its really just been devastating, she said. I dont know how you come back from this. The U.S. needs more publicly funded research and development on agriculture to offset the effects of climate change, according to a paper out in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences this month. But instead the U.S. has been investing less. United States Department of Agriculture data shows that as of 2019, the U.S. spent about a third less on agricultural research than its peak in 2002, a difference of about $2 billion. The recent pauses and freezes to funding for research on climate change and international development are only adding to the drop. Its a serious issue for farmers who depend on new innovations to keep their businesses afloat, the next generation of scientists and eventually for consumers who buy food. If scientists have reliable backing, they can keep improving crop varieties to better withstand perilous weather conditions like droughts or floods, find new uses for existing crop species, figure out how to protect workers, develop new technology to aid in planting and harvesting or create more effective ways of fighting pests. They can also investigate agricultures potential role in fighting climate change. This is terrible news for the U.S. agricultural sector, said Cornell associate professor Ariel Ortiz-Bobea, the lead author of the paper. Katrina Cornish, a professor at Ohio State University who studies rubber alternatives, harvests rubber dandelion seeds inside a greenhouse, Feb. 6, 2024, in Wooster, Ohio. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel, File) Katrina Cornish, a professor at Ohio State University who studies rubber alternatives, harvests rubber dandelion seeds inside a greenhouse, Feb. 6, 2024, in Wooster, Ohio. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel, File) Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More Soil researcher Asmita Gautam, a Ph.D. candidate at Purdue University, prepares a soil sample for carbon content analysis, July 13, 2023, in West Lafayette, Ind. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel, File) Soil researcher Asmita Gautam, a Ph.D. candidate at Purdue University, prepares a soil sample for carbon content analysis, July 13, 2023, in West Lafayette, Ind. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel, File) Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More Trump administration hastens funding cuts As the Trump administration pauses and shutters research programs funded by the Environmental Protection Agency, USDA and other agencies, Ortiz-Bobea and other experts have seen field trials stopped, postdoctoral positions eliminated and a looming gap forming between the reality of climate change and the tools farmers have to deal with it.The EPA declined to comment, and the USDA and USAID did not respond to Associated Press queries.Ortiz-Bobea and his team quantified overall U.S. agricultural productivity, estimated how much it would be slowed by climate change in coming years and calculated how much money would need to be invested in research and development to counteract that slowdown.Think of it like riding a bike into a headwind, Ortiz-Bobea said. To maintain the same speed, you have to pedal harder; in this case, R&D can be that extra push. Some countries are heading that direction. China spends almost twice as much as the U.S. on agricultural research, and has increased its research investments by five times since 2000, wrote Omanjana Goswami, a scientist with the Food and Environment team at the Union of Concerned Scientists, in an email.Spending cutbacks have also shuttered agricultural research across almost all of the Feed the Future Innovation Labs, of which McGuires was one. Those 17 labs across 13 universities focused on food security, technical agriculture research, policy and various aspects of climate change. The stop-work orders at those labs not only disappointed researchers, but made useless much of their work.There are many, many millions of dollars of expenditure that will generate nothing now because the work couldnt be finished, said David Tschirley, a professor who had been directing another one of those programs, the Innovation Lab for Food Security Policy Research, Capacity and Influence at Michigan State University, since 2019. Bill Werner, Lead Greenhouse Manager of the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at the University of California, Davis, walks between plants and evaporative cooling pads at the Core Greenhouse Complex in Davis, Calif., May 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File) Bill Werner, Lead Greenhouse Manager of the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at the University of California, Davis, walks between plants and evaporative cooling pads at the Core Greenhouse Complex in Davis, Calif., May 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File) Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More Finding new funding for agricultural researchSome researchers hope that other sources of funding can fill the gaps: Thats where private sector could really step up, said Swati Hegde, a scientist in the Food, Land, and Water Program at the World Resources Institute.From an agricultural point of view, climate change is really scary, with larger and larger regions exposed to temperatures above healthy growing conditions for many crops, said Bill Anderson, CEO of Bayer, a multinational biotechnology and pharmaceutical company that invested nearly $3 billion in agricultural research and development last year. But private companies have their own constraints on R&D investment, and he said Bayer cant invest as much as it would like in that area. I dont think that private industry can replicate how federal funding typically supports early stage, speculative science, he said, because the economics dont really work. He added that industry tends to be better suited to back ideas that have already been validated. Goswami, of the Union of Concerned Scientists, also expressed concerns that private research funding isnt as trackable and transparent as public funding. And others said even sizeable investments from companies dont give anywhere near enough money to match government funding. Researchers, farmers and consumers feel the falloutThe full impact may not be apparent for many years, and the damage wont easily be repaired. Experts think it will be a blow in other countries where climate change is already decimating yields, driving hunger and conflict. I really worry that if we dont really look at the global food situation, we will have a disaster, said David Zilberman, a professor at UC Berkeley who won a Wolf Prize in 2019 for his work on agriculture.But even domestically, experts say one thing is almost certain: this will mean even higher prices at the grocery store now and in the future.More people on the Earth, you need more productivity to prevent food prices going crazy, said Tom Hertel, a professor of agricultural economics at Purdue University. Even if nothing changes right away, he thinks 10 years from now, 20 years from now, our yield growth will surely be stunted by cuts to research on agricultural productivity.Many scientists said the wound isnt just professional but personal. People are very demoralized, especially younger researchers who dont have tenure and want to work on international food research, said Zilberman.Now those dreams are on hold for many. In carefully tended research plots, weeds begin to grow. A villager tends to his vegetable garden in a plot that is part of a climate-smart agriculture program funded by the United States Agency for International Development in Chipinge, Zimbabwe, Sept. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Aaron Ufumeli, File) A villager tends to his vegetable garden in a plot that is part of a climate-smart agriculture program funded by the United States Agency for International Development in Chipinge, Zimbabwe, Sept. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Aaron Ufumeli, File) Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More ___Follow Melina Walling on X @MelinaWalling and Bluesky @melinawalling.bsky.social.___The Associated Press climate and environmental coverage receives financial support from multiple private foundations. AP is solely responsible for all content. Find APs standards for working with philanthropies, a list of supporters and funded coverage areas at AP.org. MELINA WALLING Walling covers the intersections of climate change and agriculture in the Midwest and beyond for The Associated Press. She is based in Chicago. twitter instagram facebook mailto RSShttps://feedx.net https://feedx.site

People listen to Elon Musk during a town hall Sunday, March 30, 2025, in Green Bay, Wis. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps)2025-03-31T11:12:27Z GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) Elon Musk and his political operatives have tried to shape the closely watched Wisconsin Supreme Court race in ways that are not immediately obvious but could be critical to Tuesdays outcome.Musks America PAC has sent paid canvassers across Wisconsin since early February, before conservative Brad Schimel advanced in a nonpartisan primary to face liberal Susan Crawford for an open seat on the states highest court, where liberal justices hold a 4-3 majority and retirement this year of a liberal justice puts majority control of the court in play.Over the eight weeks since, canvassers are expected to have reached hundreds of thousands of potential Schimel voters, based on the more than $4.3 million alone that spending records a week before the election showed America PAC had poured into this labor-intensive aspect of the campaign. As I travel around the state, Ive been hearing from quite a few folks who say theyve got America PAC knocks at their doors, said Brian Schimming, the state Republican chairman. And its not just in the big areas. Though the group has been aggressive in GOP-heavy Waukesha County in suburban Milwaukee, Schimming and others report hearing that America PAC canvassers have appeared in Racine County, a blue-collar area south of Milwaukee and areas such as Sauk County northwest of Madison. They have been on this more than anybody, Schimming said. Musk played up the stakes at an America PAC event Sunday night in Green Bay, saying Schimel was in danger of losing and calling for a movement to dragnet the state. Everybodys going to mobilize everywhere like crazy for the next 48 hours, he said. And I think this will be important for the future of civilization. Its that significant. You dont hear me saying that very often. Its a big deal. He encouraged attendees to sign up at America PACs website to be a block captain, for which they could earn $20 for knocking on doors in their neighborhoods and uploading a photo as proof. Its ... thumbs up and hold a picture of Judge Schimel. And thats it, and you get $20, he said.Though America PAC declined to discuss details of its work, the groups commitment confirms Musks uniquely powerful role in Republican politics as someone working closely with President Donald Trump and willing to spend tens of millions of dollars to boost Trump and his allies. During the 2024 presidential election, Musk, the worlds richest person, committed more than $200 million to America PACs work on Trumps behalf in the seven most competitive states, including Wisconsin, where Trump won by fewer than 30,000 votes, less than a percentage point. The Wisconsin Supreme Court comes as the court is expected to rule on abortion rights, congressional redistricting, union power and voting rules that could affect the 2026 midterms and the 2028 presidential election. Musk and America PAC are trying to elevate Schimel, who has attached himself publicly to Trump and Musk. America PAC representatives were working the crowd Friday at a Schimel rally in Beaver Dam, northeast of Madison. They were seeking petition signatures to oppose activist judges. The political action committee promised $100 for each Wisconsin voter who signed the petition and another $100 for each signer they referred. Musk has become a Democratic target and the center of the partys messaging against Schimel. Crawford, who is backed by liberal billionaires including George Soros and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, referred to her opponent in their debate as Elon Schimel. Many standing nearby waved signs in protest to Musk.Musk Hates Judges Who Do Their Job!, said one mans cardboard sign, held over his head. The man next to him held one that simply said, NO DOGE, referring to the Department of Government Efficiency, Trumps government cost-cutting effort, which Musk directs.Musk drew widespread attention with the Sunday rally in Green Bay and his $1 million giveaways to people who sign the petition decrying judicial activism. Groups linked to Musk have spent more than $17 million to support Schimel in whats become the most expensive judicial race in American history. A significant portion of that money is going into the tedious but critical work of voter turnout. As of one week before the election, America PAC had spent $4.3 million on canvassing alone, according to figures compiled by the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that advocates for transparency in campaign spending.Americans for Prosperity, a group founded by anti-tax billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch, is also canvassing in the supreme court race and also was active in Wisconsin during the 2024 campaign. But the group also was a distant second in the Supreme Court race, having spent only about a sixth of America PAC $712,000 on canvassing, according to the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign. While the millions America PAC has spent on canvassing are far beyond what other groups have committed, America PAC also had spent as of last week at least another $4 million on mail, printing, online advertising, phone-banking, text messaging and other organizing costs, also far ahead of other groups. The group was canvassing this month in Sauk County, where the presidential candidate who took the state has won in five straight elections. Trump last year won Sauk split between Democratic-leaning areas closer to Madison and a more conservative rural northwest by 626 votes after Democrat Joe Biden won the county by 615 votes in 2020. America PAC canvassers were in Sauk County knocking on doors last fall, trying to reach voters who had voted Republican in the past but had not been reliably active. America PAC is in our neck of the woods, said Jerry Helmer, the countys Republican chairman. They were up knocking on doors in the Wisconsin Dells this month. America PAC has been doing a really good job in our area. They are just killing it in Sauk County. THOMAS BEAUMONT Beaumont covers national politics for The Associated Press. He is based in Des Moines, Iowa. twitter mailto RSShttps://feedx.net https://feedx.site

Nature, Published online: 31 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01004-3Following the firms bankruptcy, researchers hope that they will be able to continue accessing the valuable data set even if it is sold to new owners.

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A rabbi delivers an eulogy next to the coffin containing the remains of Israeli-Moldovan rabbi Zvi Kogan in Kfar Chabad, Israel, Monday Nov. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg, File)2025-03-31T15:19:38Z DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) A court in the United Arab Emirates has sentenced three people to death for the killing of Israeli-Moldovan Zvi Kogan, state media reported Monday.The state-run WAM news agency announced the verdicts of the three after a trial in Abu Dhabi Federal Court of Appeals State Security Chamber. It said a fourth person who aided the killing received a life sentence.It did not identify those charged. However, three Uzbek nationals had been arrested in Turkey and brought back to the UAE over the killing in November. The defendants had tracked and murdered the victim, the WAM report said. The evidence presented by the State Security Prosecution to the court included the defendants detailed confessions to the crimes of murder and kidnapping, along with forensic reports, post-mortem examination findings, details of the instruments used in the crime and witness testimonies. Authorities in the UAE have not offered a motive for the killing, nor any details about how Kogan was kidnapped and slain. However, it came amid the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip, which has inflamed anger across the wider Muslim world. Diplomatic ties between Israel and the UAE have remained intact, though strained, by the war as Israel maintains a consulate in Dubai and an embassy in Abu Dhabi.While not directly blaming Iran, Israeli officials including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and others have referred to an axis of evil being responsible for Kogans killing a phrase Israel in the past has used to refer to Iran and its allies. Irans Embassy in Abu Dhabi has denied Tehran was involved in the rabbis slaying and the UAE itself has not made the allegation. However, Western officials believe Iran runs intelligence operations in the UAE and keeps tabs on the hundreds of thousands of Iranians living across the country. Iranian intelligence services also have carried out past kidnappings in the UAE. Iran also has used criminal gangs in the past to target dissidents and its enemies.Kogan, 28, an ultra-Orthodox rabbi, ran a kosher grocery store in the futuristic city of Dubai, where Israelis have flocked for commerce and tourism since the two countries forged diplomatic ties in the 2020 Abraham Accords. The UAE has a burgeoning Jewish community, with synagogues and businesses catering to kosher diners.Kogan was an emissary of the Chabad Lubavitch movement, a prominent and highly observant branch of ultra-Orthodox Judaism based in Brooklyns Crown Heights neighborhood in New York City. He was buried in Israel. The UAE is an autocratic federation of seven sheikhdoms on the Arabian Peninsula and is also home to Abu Dhabi. Capital cases are rare in the country of 9 million people, but executions typically come swiftly after defendants have their appeals exhausted. Typically, the UAE uses firing squads to execute the condemned. JON GAMBRELL Gambrell is the news director for the Gulf and Iran for The Associated Press. He has reported from each of the Gulf Cooperation Council countries, Iran and other locations across the world since joining the AP in 2006. twitter instagram mailto

A child shoots a basketball on a street court in Tocorn, Venezuela, Saturday, March 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Cristian Hernandez)2025-03-31T15:10:23Z TOCORON, Venezuela (AP) Tocorn once had it all. A nightclub, swimming pools, tigers, a lavish suite and plenty of food.This was not a Las Vegas-style resort, but it felt like it for some of the thousands who until recently lived in luxury in this sprawling prison in northern Venezuela.Here, between parties, concerts and weeks-long visits from wives and children, was the birthplace of the Tren de Aragua, a dangerous gang that has gained global notoriety after U.S. President Donald Trump put it at the center of his anti-immigrant narrative.Kidnappings, extortion and other crimes were planned, ordered or committed from this prison long before Trumps rhetoric.The tiny, impoverished town where the Aragua Penitentiary Center is used to bustle with residents selling food, renting phone chargers and storing bags for prison visitors. Now, the prison is back under government control, and streets in the town, also called Tocorn, are mostly deserted. The community has a few convenience stores, evangelical and Catholic churches, and an informal liquor store. A few people sit around, drinking beer and playing board games, or gather for a youth baseball game. Residents still hesitate to speak about the notorious gang that used to control their lives. Some who dare speak lower their voices or look around for anyone listening as they narrate encounters with the gang. This, here, Tocorn, was all highly controlled, Miguel Ponce said pointing to the prison behind him and the town around it. I couldnt have talked to you a while back. We werent allowed to move around.Even now, he said, perhaps he was talking too much. The beginnings of Tren de AraguaTren de Aragua, meaning Train of Aragua, came together in Venezuela just as the South American country came apart.In 2013, a crisis was taking hold in the country, as corruption, mismanagement and a drop in crude prices wrecked the oil-dependent economy. Hunger became widespread, grocery store shelves emptied, inflation soared, jobs disappeared and millions fell into poverty.Around the same time, a notorious criminal, Hctor Guerrero, returned to Tocorn to serve time for the murder of a police officer and other convictions.The prison, like others across Venezuela, was badly run, and serious allegations of torture and government corruption abounded. The criminal, nicknamed Nio Guerrero, and a few other inmates saw a profitable opportunity, expanding what had been a budding gang.Once these prisoners realized they had more weapons and more power than the military force guarding them, they assumed control and administration, Ronna Rsquez, author of a book on the Tren de Aragua, said.Guerrero and others established an organization within the prison that controlled the inmates through force and extortion. Guards looked the other way or colluded with gang members.The gangs largest source of revenue was the weekly fee it charged inmates, which Rsquez said added up to $3.5 million a year. Other funds came from crimes committed inside or outside prison. Over time, Rsquez said, that turned Tocorn into the gangs recruitment center and a kind of city tailored to the groups needs, with amenities like a zoo, baseball field, casino and restaurants. Have a news tip?Contact APs global investigative team at [emailprotected]. For secure and confidential communications, use the free Signal app +1 (202) 281-8604. Inmates who followed the gangs rules, paid their weekly fees and had extra money could order a meal from a tin-roof steakhouse or other food-court vendors. Their wives could visit them for weeks at a time. Their children could run around a colorful playground. Those who could not pay fees or crossed the gang suffered. Some even died. Guerrero had his own lavish suite inside the prison. But the most famous feature at Casa Grande, the name the gang gave the prison, was Club Tokyo, where inmates and some members of the public partied to live music and shows of scantily clad dancers. Prison walls do not contain the gangOver a decade, Tren de Araguas activities extended well beyond Tocorn. By 2023, the gang had about 4,000 members across the country, operating in 11 of the 23 states, according to the independent organization, Venezuelan Observatory of Violence.The gang extorted businesses, charging owners regular fees, and trafficked drugs. It also carried out kidnappings as some of its members serving time in Tocorn were allowed to leave the prison for several hours a day.Venezuelas severe food shortages in the second half of last decade added to the gangs control. Often, prisoners wives would travel to Tocorn from faraway states to do their shopping, said a convenience store manager in Maracay, the states capital. The manager, who asked not to be named out of fear of retaliation, explained that food was available inside the prison when it could not be found anywhere else. Much of the coffee, flour, rice and other products sold inside Tocorn came from highway piracy. Thieves scouted a crucial interstate, stopped trucks and took their loot to the prison. That prompted Venezuelans to avoid being outdoors or driving after sundown. Some gang victims left Venezuela, joining the exodus of more than 7.7 million people who migrated in search of better living conditions. Among them was retiree Manuel Marquez son.He had a convenience store... and they wanted to charge him a vaccine, Marquez, 71, said using the colloquial term in Spanish for a protection fee that criminals charge businesses. They came in, tied him up, and took everything. Anyone who refuses (to pay), lets just say it, is looted. Thats how things work here, its unfortunate.Marquezs son relocated to Ecuador after the gang emptied his convenience store in Maracay.The Tren de Aragua also spread terror with phone calls and WhatsApp messages meant to extort hundreds or thousands of dollars from average Venezuelans.The first time, thank God, my daughter-in-law was home, and she told me to hang up, but it was hard and I was trembling, said Maracay dentist Esperanza de Andrade, who received three calls. They told me my name, my childrens names, where they went to school, and that, of course, alarmed me greatly. They directly threatened my life and the lives of my children.De Andrade said the last call happened around Sept. 20, 2023, when 11,000 soldiers stormed the prison to regain control. The gang hits other countriesAfter they lost the prison, some members of the gang scattered, and Guerrero got away.Members of the military used heavy equipment to destroy some of the amenities the gang had built. But the massive operation in Tocorn came too late to prevent the gang from crossing Venezuelas borders. Peru, Colombia, Ecuador and Chile all with large populations of Venezuelan migrants have accused the group of being behind violent crimes.The gangs initial work abroad focused on exploiting Venezuelan migrants through loan sharking, human trafficking and the smuggling of contraband goods to and from Venezuela. But as migrants settled in their host countries, Tren de Aragua members joined or clashed with local criminal organizations engaged in drug trafficking, extortion of local businesses and murders for hire. The gang became known in Colombia in 2022 after authorities found at least at least 19 bodies in the capital, some dismembered, and linked Guerrero associates to the killings. And in Chile last year, authorities blamed the gang for the killing of a Venezuelan officer who had fled there after taking part in a failed plot to overthrow Venezuelan President Nicols Maduro.Earlier this month, the U.S. government announced it will extradite three Tren de Aragua members to Chile for their involvement in the case.As the gang loses influence at home, it becomes a talking point in the U.S. The Tren de Aragua has been on the radar of U.S. authorities for years. The administration of former U.S. President Joe Biden sanctioned the gang in July 2024, and offered $12 million in rewards for the arrest of three of its leaders, including Guerrero.But it wasnt until Trump campaigned for a second White House term that the Tren de Aragua became widely known in the U.S., as he and his allies turned the gang into the face of the alleged threat posed by immigrants living in the country illegally.Trump has taken the extraordinary steps to designate the group a foreign terrorist organization, and earlier this month, an invading force, by invoking an 18th-century wartime law that allows the U.S. to deport noncitizens without any legal recourse, including rights to appear before an immigration or federal court judge.Under those decisions, the Trump administration has sent Venezuelan immigrants to the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. It has alleged that the transferred individuals were Tren de Aragua members, though it has not provided any evidence to back up that claim.The parents of some of those immigrants categorically rejected the gang-affiliation allegation and said their children do not have criminal records in the U.S. or Venezuela.A September 2024 slide presentation from the Texas Department of Public Safety showed Tren de Aragua activity in six states and claimed members had identifiable tattoos, including stars on shoulder to indicate rank and trains and dice.Some recently deported Venezuelans have said U.S. authorities wrongly judged their tattoos to accuse them of gang activity. Rsquez did not doubt that members of the gang are currently in the U.S., but she said tattoos, which are commonly used by Central American gangs, are not required for those affiliated with the Tren de Aragua.The problem is which Tren de Aragua members are in the U.S., where they are, how many there are, Rsquez said. That is not clear, and with all the latest events, this is becoming less and less clear.

The creator of an open source genetic database is shutting it down and deleting all of its data because he has come to believe that its existence is dangerous with a rise in far-right and other authoritarian governments in the United States and elsewhere.The largest use case for DTC genetic data was not biomedical research or research in big pharma, Bastian Greshake Tzovaras, the founder of OpenSNP, wrote in a blog post. Instead, the transformative impact of the data came to fruition among law enforcement agencies, who have put the genealogical properties of genetic data to use.OpenSNP has collected roughly 7,500 genomes over the last 14 years, primarily by allowing people to voluntarily submit their own genetic information they have downloaded from 23andMe. With the bankruptcy of 23andMe, increased interest in genetic data by law enforcement, and the return of Donald Trump and rise of authoritarian governments worldwide, Greshake Tzovaras told 404 Media he no longer believes it is ethical to run the database.Ive been thinking about it since 23andMe was on the verge of bankruptcy and been really considering it since the U.S. election. It definitely is really bad over there [in the United States], Greshake Tzovaras told 404 Media. I am quite relieved to have made the decision and come to a conclusion. Its been weighing on my mind for a long time.Greshake Tzovaras said that he is proud of the OpenSNP project, but that, in a world where scientific data is being censored and deleted and where the Trump administration has focused on criminalizing immigrants and trans people, he now believes that the most responsible thing to do is to delete the data and shut down the project.DNA of 15 Million People for Sale in 23andMe BankruptcyThere is no way to know what a buyer will want to do with the reams of genetic information it has collected. Customers, meanwhile, still have no way to change their underlying genetic data.404 MediaJason KoeblerMost people in OpenSNP may not be at particular risk right now, but there are people from vulnerable populations in here as well, Greshake Tzovaras said. Thinking about gender representation, minorities, sexual orientation23andMe has been working on the whole gay gene thing, its conceivable that this would at some point in the future become an issue.In his blog post, Greshake Tzovaras says that he is particularly concerned about the rise of DNA phenotyping, which is a dubious process in which DNA portraits of potential suspects are generated based on a DNA sample; he called the practice unreliable nonsense, and said that a startup had once approached OpenSNP to help them create a DNA phenotyping product to sell to law enforcement. "That's something we don't want to see in the world," he said.Across the globe there is a rise in far-right and other authoritarian governments. While they are cracking down on free and open societies, they are also dedicated to replacing scientific thought and reasoning with pseudoscience across disciplines, Greshake Tzovaras wrote. The risk/benefit calculus of providing free & open access to individual genetic data in 2025 is very different compared to 14 years ago. And so, sunsetting openSNP along with deleting the data stored within it feels like it is the most responsible act of stewardship for these data today.Greshake Tzovaras said he understands that it may seem ironic to delete scientific data during a time when the Trump administration is itself deleting scientific data from the internet. But he says he believes its better to put the safety of people first.The interesting thing to me is there are data preservation efforts in the U.S. because the government is deleting scientific data that they dont like. This is approaching that same problem from a different direction, he added. We need to protect the people in this database. I am supportive of preserving scientific data and knowledge, but the data comes secondthe people come first. We prefer deleting the data.Greshake Tzovaras says that when he started OpenSNP 14 years ago, he believed that having an open source genetic database would lead to medical breakthroughs and would help scientists and academics do research. OpenSNP has been used for various scientific papers, most notably to show that an earlier paper about chronic fatigue syndrome pulled from 23andMe data could not be replicated and was based on erroneous science.At a time when genetic data was locked into the commercial siloes of direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing companiesand only made accessible to the pharma companies that could afford buying access to itopenSNP should open up access to everyone, he wrote in the blog post announcing the closure of OpenSNP. Regardless of financial means and institutional status or credentials, it should provide free access to the data. And equally important: It would give the individual the choice to contribute to this open data resource, instead of having researchers or companies broker the access.He said he has come to believe over time that, while there remains promise in genetic research for new drugs, disease prediction and prevention, and personalized medicine, the idea that OpenSNP and genetic databases in general would lead to widespread better outcomes for people was in retrospect naive.This ambition came from a (in retrospect nave) data-centric belief that genetic data would be a key driver for improving human health and medicine, he wrote. In 2025, my view on that is a lot more sober (and bleaker): Today it seems clear to me that the biggest impact on improving healtheven in the rich, allegedly developed nationswould come from providing food security and access to stable housing. And not from trying to find genetic confounders of common diseases that are a lot more rooted in those environmental & societal factors.Greshake Tzovaras told 404 Media that there have been very important and useful findings from genetic research, but that many countries are still failing at the basics: Thats not to dismiss genetic data as useless, but we have spent I dont know how many billions of dollars, and the health outcome improvements are minor if you compare them to improving housing and access to nutrition, he said. We are really lacking at the basics still.

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This photo provided by researchers at UCSF and UC Berkeley shows Ann, a participant in a study on speech neuroprostheses, in California in 2023. (Noah Berger/UCSF, UC Berkeley via AP)2025-03-31T15:01:52Z Scientists have developed a device that can translate thoughts about speech into spoken words in real time.Although its still experimental, they hope the brain-computer interface could someday help give voice to those unable to speak.A new study described testing the device on a 47-year-old woman with quadriplegia who couldnt speak for 18 years after a stroke. Doctors implanted it in her brain during surgery as part of a clinical trial.It converts her intent to speak into fluent sentences, said Gopala Anumanchipalli, a co-author of the study published Monday in the journal Nature Neuroscience.Other brain-computer interfaces, or BCIs, for speech typically have a slight delay between thoughts of sentences and computerized verbalization. Such delays can disrupt the natural flow of conversation, potentially leading to miscommunication and frustration, researchers said. This is a pretty big advance in our field, said Jonathan Brumberg of the Speech and Applied Neuroscience Lab at the University of Kansas, who was not part of the study. A team in California recorded the womans brain activity using electrodes while she spoke sentences silently in her brain. The scientists used a synthesizer they built using her voice before her injury to create a speech sound that she would have spoken. They trained an AI model that translates neural activity into units of sound. It works similar to existing systems used to transcribe meetings or phone calls in real time, said Anumanchipalli, of the University of California, Berkeley. The implant itself sits on the speech center of the brain so that its listening in, and those signals are translated to pieces of speech that make up sentences. Its a streaming approach, Anumanchipalli said, with each 80-millisecond chunk of speech about half a syllable sent into a recorder. Its not waiting for a sentence to finish, Anumanchipalli said. Its processing it on the fly. Decoding speech that quickly has the potential to keep up with the fast pace of natural speech, said Brumberg. The use of voice samples, he added, would be a significant advance in the naturalness of speech.Though the work was partially funded by the National Institutes of Health, Anumanchipalli said it wasnt affected by recent NIH research cuts. More research is needed before the technology is ready for wide use, but with sustained investments, it could be available to patients within a decade, he said. ___The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institutes Science and Educational Media Group and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The AP is solely responsible for all content. LAURA UNGAR Ungar covers medicine and science on the APs Global Health and Science team. She has been a health journalist for more than two decades. twitter mailto

Actor Gene Hackman with wife Betsy Arakawa in June 1993. (AP Photo, File)2025-03-31T04:10:18Z SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) A New Mexico court is weighing whether to block the disclosure of an array of records from an investigation into the deaths of actor Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, at the request of the couples estate.Santa Fe-based Judge Matthew Wilson scheduled a hearing Monday to consider a request from estate representative Julia Peters to seal photos, video and documents to protect the familys constitutional right to privacy. The court put a temporary hold on the release of records pending the hearing.The partially mummified remains of Hackman and Arakawa were found in their Santa Fe home on Feb. 26, when maintenance and security workers showed up at the home and alerted police. Authorities have confirmed Hackman, 95, died of heart disease with complications from Alzheimers disease about a week after his wifes death. Hackman may have been unaware Arakawa, 65, was dead. Her cause of death was listed as hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, which is a rare, rodent-borne disease. New Mexicos open records law blocks public access to sensitive images, including depictions of dead bodies. Experts also say some medical information is not considered public record under the state Inspection of Public Records Act. Peters has emphasized the possibly shocking nature of photographs and video in the investigation and potential for their dissemination by media in the bid to block them from being released. The Hackman family estates lawsuit also seeks to block the release of autopsy reports by the Office of the Medical Investigator and death investigation reports by the Santa Fe County Sheriffs Office.The bulk of death investigations by law enforcement and autopsy reports by medical investigators are typically considered public records under state law in the spirit of ensuring government transparency and accountability. Authorities unraveled the mysterious circumstances of the couples deaths and described their conclusions at a March 7 news conference without releasing most related written and photographic records.One of the couples three dogs, a kelpie mix named Zinna, also was found dead in a crate in a bathroom closet near Arakawa. Two other dogs survived.The written request to seal the records notes the couple placed a significant value on their privacy and took affirmative vigilant steps to safeguard it during their lives, including after they moved to Santa Fe and Hackman retired. The state capital is known as a refuge for celebrities, artists and authors.Arakawa had no children, while Hackman is survived by three children from a previous marriage. Privacy likely also will play a role as the couples estate is settled. According to probate court documents, Hackman signed an updated will in 2005 leaving his estate to his wife, while the will she signed that same year directed her estate to him. With both of them dying, management of the estate is in Peters hands.A request is pending to appoint a trustee to administer assets in two trusts associated with the estate. Without trust documents being made public, its unclear who the beneficiaries are and how the assets will be divided. Attorneys who specialize in estate planning in New Mexico say its possible more details could come out if there were any legal disputes over the assets. Even then, they said, the parties likely would ask the court to seal the documents.

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