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President Trump says he is not ruling out the opportunity of searching for a 3rd time period in workplace. Yesterday, Trump advised NBC Information he “was not joking” about serving one other time period and that “there are strategies” that might enable him to take action. He didn’t elaborate on these strategies. The Structure mandates a two-term restrict for the president.

• 🎧 There’s something of a motion amongst Trump’s most avid supporters selling the concept of a 3rd time period, NPR’s Tamara Keith tells Up First. A Republican congressman even launched a constitutional modification three days into Trump’s second time period to pave the best way for a 3rd. Keith says there is a political cause for Trump to pursue this. Except one thing dramatic occurs, the clock is ticking on his energy. Members of his celebration will quickly run to interchange him and he might be seen as a lame duck, she says. Teasing a 3rd time period could potentially extend his influence.

Trump has issued an government order concentrating on the Smithsonian Establishment, aiming to revive the “reality and sanity to American historical past.” The order consists of provisions seeking to reinstate monuments, memorials and statues that have been eliminated or altered since January 2020. In response, Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch advised employees in an e mail that it could proceed to employ internal review processes and that their work “might be formed by the most effective scholarship, freed from partisanship, to assist the American public higher perceive the nation’s historical past, challenges and triumphs.”

• 🎧 NPR’s Isabella Gomez Sarmiento says one huge query is which monuments can be put again up. Most of the websites that noticed modifications to monuments have been on land controlled by municipalities and state governments, in accordance with Seth Levi of the Southern Poverty Regulation Middle, a authorized and advocacy group. This land is not managed by the Division of the Inside, which is tasked with reviewing monuments by Trump’s government order.

Myanmar’s navy authorities say the loss of life toll from Friday’s 7.7 magnitude earthquake has climbed to over 1,700. That quantity is anticipated to rise because the window to search out survivors is closing. Overseas help has began to reach, however efforts have been stifled by buckled roads, collapsed bridges and downed cell towers.

• 🎧 Lack of heavy gear and personnel has hampered efforts to rescue these trapped beneath the rubble, says NPR’s Michael Sullivan. Rescue employees say the scent of loss of life is overpowering. Rescue groups from China, India and Russia have arrived within the nation, however the airport is closed to massive plane and far of the overseas help is being flown round 350 miles south to Yangon. Trump stated on Friday that the U.S. would additionally help in assistance efforts. The USAID, which performed a big position in catastrophe reduction previously, has been gutted by the Trump administration in latest weeks.
• ➡️ See images of the aftermath of the earthquake in Myanmar and Thailand.

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Gabriella Cardenas of North Potomac, Md., wears her quinceañera costume as she and her father, Boris Cardenas (holding costume), brother Jason Cardenas and mom Patty Cardenas transfer to a brand new spot alongside the Tidal Basin for a photograph.

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The cherry blossoms within the nation’s capital reached peak bloom this weekend, attracting scores of individuals to the roughly 3,800 cherry timber close to the Nationwide Mall. However even two days earlier than peak bloom, droves of individuals got here out to see the spectacle. Final Wednesday, D.C.’s Tidal Basin was filled with a combined scene of particular events and on a regular basis moments. Individuals posed for photoshoots, households pushed their strollers alongside the blossoms and joggers weaved via the group. Take a look at these photos of the blossoms and see how folks have been having fun with them.

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by Steve Inskeep, Morning Version and Up First host

Throughout per week in China, we glimpsed the excessive and low ends of its financial system.

International enterprise leaders spoke at the China Development Forum. China’s premier, or prime minister, advised them China is now a steady nation that follows world guidelines — a dig at america with its near-weekly changes in tariff policy. He additionally promoted China’s progress in constructing humanoid robots.

The foyer of the Xiaomi auto plant in Beijing.

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An government on the Discussion board spoke of synthetic intelligence. To the layman, AI means ChatGPT, however he stated the true cash was in AI’s software to manufacturing.

We sensed what the manager meant once we toured a factory making stylish Xiaomi electrical automobiles. Robotic equipment did many of the work: Crane-like arms moved components round on the meeting line whereas self-driving autos moved gadgets across the manufacturing facility flooring. A century in the past, Henry Ford’s well-known River Rouge auto plant employed 100,000 folks; this plant employs 2,000.

On the low finish, we toured a factory consisting of 4,000 3-D printers, the type you should buy on Amazon and use in your house. The printers are cranking out tens of millions of plastic animals and different toys for the worldwide market. The manufacturing facility proprietor contends he is creating alternatives for younger folks like himself who’re adrift in China’s high-tech, high-powered financial system, which faces excessive youth unemployment.

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Elizabeth Kenward, left, and “Rosie” Maxine Boeve giggle collectively through the Rosie the Riveter Congressional Gold Medal Commemoration on the World Warfare II Museum in New Orleans, La., on Friday, March 21, 2025.

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1. Eighteen Rosie the Riveters have been honored as Congressional Gold Medal recipients on the Nationwide WWII Museum. The ladies have been trailblazers, proving ladies may achieve what was thought-about a person’s job on the time.
2. In a break with custom, this 12 months’s White Home Correspondents’ dinner is not going to embrace a featured comic. Amber Ruffin’s look was canceled.
3. A babysitter in Kansas was checking for a “monster” underneath a baby’s mattress and came face-to-face with a male suspect hiding there.

This text was edited by Suzanne Nuyen.