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A man sits among the wreckage caused by a series of powerful storms and at least one tornado on March 25, 2023 in Rolling Fork, Mississippi.

Mississippi and Alabama face a painful recovery after storms and a tornado killed 26

Joe Hernandez

President Biden approved a federal disaster declaration for Mississippi early on Sunday. State officials said that dozens of people remained injured.

A scrappy newscast in Kyiv aimed at Russians counters Putin's propaganda machine

Eleanor Beardsley

February Morning, an online TV channel broadcast in Russian, offers its audience a different take on the war in Ukraine. Its founder says his goal is nothing less than the end of the Putin regime.

Majida Begum, 60, whose home was washed away in June 2022 floods in the Sunamganj, northern Bangladesh. Here Begum stands under an elevated canopy of bitter gourd vines – a vegetable garden designed to survive if and when her village floods again.

Facing floods: What the world can learn from Bangladesh's climate solutions

Lauren Frayer

The world's worst cyclones hit Bangladesh. Floods are devastating. Yet death tolls are falling. The country's climate disaster strategies offer lessons for all coastal communities.

"Hate on me," Jake Wesley Rogers sang on stage at the Love Rising benefit concert in Nashville's Bridgestone Arena on March 20. "You might as well hate the sun."

Visibility, with the volume up loud, in Tennessee

Ann Powers

A pop critic looks at two benefit shows in Nashville that put a rainbow-hued spotlight on the way a buzzword like "visibility" can become more than symbolic, especially in moments of crisis.

Jonathan Majors is pictured at Shrine Auditorium and Expo Hall in October 2021 in Los Angeles.

Actor Jonathan Majors was arrested for assault in New York City

James Doubek

Police were called to a domestic dispute in an apartment Saturday morning. Majors was charged with assault, strangulation and harassment. A representative for Majors said he "has done nothing wrong."

Actor Jonathan Majors was arrested for assault in New York City

James Doubek

Police were called to a domestic dispute in an apartment Saturday morning. Majors was charged with assault, strangulation and harassment. A representative for Majors said he "has done nothing wrong."

Russian President Vladimir Putin listens to Russian Transport Minister Vitaly Savelyev during a meeting in Moscow on Saturday.

Putin says Russia will station tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus

The Associated Press

Putin said the plan was in response to Britain's decision this past week to provide Ukraine with armor-piercing rounds containing depleted uranium.

Xavier "Chabelo" Lopez sticks out his tongue during a telethon event in 2015. Lopez, a Mexican children's comic better known by his stage name "Chabelo," died at the age of 88, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador wrote Saturday.

Mexican children's comic Chabelo dies at 88

The Associated Press

Xavier López, a Mexican children's comic better known by his stage name "Chabelo," hosted the Sunday variety show En Familia con Chabelo for an astonishing 48 years from 1967 to 2015.

In an aerial view, damage from a series of powerful storms and at least one tornado is seen in Rolling Fork, Mississippi.

Photos show the devastation caused by the deadly Mississippi tornado

Nicole Werbeck

The destructive tornado killed at least 26 people, leveled buildings and left thousands of customers without power.

BTS swag is raffled off at an in-person event hosted by the Titas of BTS on March 10. Some 40 women gathered at a bar in Quezon City to celebrate the March birthdays of BTS members Suga and J-Hope.

These BTS superfans in the Philippines show you're never too old to be a K-pop stan

Ashley Westerman

The K-pop phenomenon BTS is on a break right now. But their fans are not — especially thousands of them in the Philippines, who call themselves the "titas" or aunties of BTS. All of them are over 30.