This article was originally published by Radio Free Asia and is reprinted with permission. A Myanmar junta airstrike on a hospital in the west of the country has killed four people, including patients and staff, and wounded 15, a rebel group told Radio Free Asia on Friday.  The Thursday strike hit a hospital in Chin state’s Mindat township, the anti-junta People’s Administration in the region said.  The state, bordering India, has seen a surge of violence since the Myanmar military staged a coup in early 2021, with junta forces  accused of frequently razing villages o ..read more

Fresh off a historic vote to advance a ban on many high-powered, semi-automatic guns, the Colorado House approved three more gun-related bills over the weekend — sending them across the Capitol for another round of debate. Those votes on Saturday were followed Monday by the state Senate’s final approval for two other gun reform bills dealing with concealed-carry permits and firearms storage in vehicles. The House’s Saturday votes — on bills concerning gun dealer licensing, insurance requirements for gun owners, and taxes on sales of guns and ammunition — relied on sup ..read more

The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Tuesday in the case of a Los Angeles man who was denied a green card after marrying a U.S. citizen. Luis Acensio Cordero was denied a visa to return to the U.S. from El Salvador and has been separated from his wife, Sandra Muñoz, since 2015. The couple sued, arguing the federal government had violated her constitutional right to marriage and due process by failing to provide a timely explanation for denying Acensio’s visa. Years later, they found out the federal government believed he was an MS-13 gang member, based in part on a review of h ..read more

James Turner popped open the hood of his red Ford truck and checked the engine. Soon, he will hop in his truck — which used to be his only shelter — and drive north to his new home. Turner, 62, currently lives in Kiggins Village, a Vancouver Safe Stay shelter that consists of 20 huts enclosed by a fence in the Lincoln neighborhood. But in the next couple of weeks, Turner will move to a housing complex for veterans in Port Orchard to be closer to family. He’s among the first residents of Kiggins Village, which opened in December, to land stable housing ..read more

New technologies are making it easier for companies to fix prices and discriminate against individual consumers, the Biden administration’s top consumer watchdog said Tuesday. Algorithms make it possible for companies to fix prices without explicitly coordinating with one another, posing a new test for regulators policing the market, said Lina Khan, chair of the Federal Trade Commission, during a media event hosted by KFF. “I think we could be entering a somewhat novel era of pricing,” Khan told reporters. Khan is regarded as one of the most aggressive antitrust regulators in recent U.S. hist ..read more

Rebel Wilson has more dirty laundry to air, claiming in her memoir that a British royal invited her to a party full of drugs to better facilitate an orgy. The “Pitch Perfect” star, 44, writes in her new memoir, “Rebel Rising,” that she was invited by someone “who’s like fifteenth or twentieth in line to the British throne” to a medieval-themed party hosted by a “tech billionaire,” according to People. “All of a sudden it’s 2 a.m. and a guy comes out with a large tray piled with what looks like a ton of candy,” Wilson recalls, noting she was told the treats were actually “molly ..read more

This article was originally published by Radio Free Asia and is reprinted with permission. A Taiwanese military expert has warned that Chinese military aircraft are now flying closer to Taipei on a regular basis and could reach the Presidential Office within minutes. Retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Chang Yen-ting said that, according to Ministry of National Defense’s data, on Apr. 21, two Chinese fighter jets were spotted 41 nautical miles (76 kilometers) away from Keelung, a port city just 20 kilometers (12.4 miles) north of Taipei. “That means they would need only around five minutes to rea ..read more

This article was originally published by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and is reprinted with permission. Authoritarian ruler Alyaksandr Lukashenka said that “several dozen Russian nuclear weapons” were deployed in Belarus, a move that has raised concerns in the West that Moscow’s war against Ukraine could spread. Speaking at the All-Belarusian People’s Assembly in Minsk that was broadcast live on YouTube on April 25, Lukashenka, a key ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, said the gathering had unanimously adopted a new military doctrine that considers the deployment of Russia ..read more

Since 2022, a highly contagious strain of bird flu has spread across the U.S. at an unprecedented rate, resulting in the deaths of more than 90 million birds in commercial and backyard poultry flocks, plus thousands more in the wild. Then, in late March, the virus made a jump to another species that surprised many scientists: cows. Dairy cattle in eight states have since tested positive for the virus, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s tracker showed on Tuesday. So far, there have been no reported cases in Georgia. But there have been other developments that are worrying influenza ..read more

On Thursday, the Department of Veterans Affairs posted a final rule amending its regulations regarding character of discharge determinations, expanding access to VA care and benefits for some former service members discharged under other than honorable conditions or by special court-martial. A statement from the VA reads: “When former service members with other than honorable discharges and bad conduct discharges (adjudged at special court-martial) apply for VA benefits and services, we carefully review their records to determine if we can provide them ..read more