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The campaign says it no longer needs so many staff for the remaining contests left on the calendar, but the move could be a sign of trouble.

The Obama administration requested $1.9 billion in emergency funds to prepare for Zika, but Congress has yet to respond. Now the White House plans to divert funding intended for Ebola.

Thailand and Southeast Asia celebrate their New Year this week. In Thailand, the holiday is called Songkran, which features the biggest water fight in the world that lasts-officially for three days. It's enormously popular with tourists. This year's festival is tempered by the worst drought in decades, two years of increasingly repressive military rule, and an economy that's heading south.

The team has medaled in every Summer Olympics since 1976. But the Romanians' fifth-place finish at Sunday's final qualifying event denies them a spot at the Rio Games.

The heat came early to India, and everyone is suffering. Here's a report from our village correspondent.

The Mississippi River is expected to crest Sunday. Officials in low-lying New Orleans don't expect this time to be as bad as last month, but they're not taking any chances.

Since October, a natural gas storage well near Los Angeles has been spewing hundreds of tons of methane gas each day. The leak isn't expected to be fixed for months.

The French disease fighter had a healthy fear of microbes. So does a new report, which worries that humankind might not be ready to fight off the next pandemic.

"Clearly, what happened here is a case of environmental injustice," task force member Ken Sikkema tells reporters. Primary blame rests with a state environmental agency, investigators concluded.

A group of major corporations with business interests in the state had encouraged the governor to veto the measure. Disney had threatened to boycott the state.