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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.

Architect Zaha Hadid died on Thursday at age 65. She was the first woman to win the Pritzker Prize, architecture's highest honor.

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.

Babies in the neonatal intensive care unit often get multiple tests and treatments a day. Not all of them help, and some can hurt. Neonatologists have picked the five least likely to do good.

The results of the country's first free election in 25 years were declared official Friday. The party, led by the Nobel Peace Prize winner, now has a clear path to select the next president.

Few successful recent nominees have announced their candidacy as recently as Biden could have this week.

The epicenter of the magnitude-7.5 quake was in a region straddling Pakistan and Afghanistan and was felt strongly in the Afghan capital, Kabul.

U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter: "We have said and we are acting on the basis of saying that we will fly, sail and operate wherever international law permits."

From a scapegoat for the "sapping" of the "white race," to a symbol of modern engineering, to a target of the counterculture movement: White bread's been a social lightning rod time and again.

Trash talk has never been so literate. For the World Series, the Kansas City and Queens Public Libraries are in the middle of a Twitter showdown.