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Police in Myanmar launched their most sweeping crackdown in three weeks of protests against military rule on Saturday in towns and cities across the country, with media reports of a woman shot dead and dozens of people detained. Source

WASHINGTON -- A conference dedicated to the future of the conservative movement turned into an ode to former U.S. President Donald Trump as speakers declared their fealty to the former president and attendees posed for selfies with a golden statue of his likeness. Source

Rachel Lynne Cushman is used to getting calls from Chinook Nation members worried about losing housing or having their power shut off. Since COVID-19 hit, they come in daily. Cushman is secretary-treasurer for the group of tribes whose rural, ancestral lands are based in one of Washington state's poorest counties. Source

NEW DELHI, INDIA -- A rooster fitted with a knife for an illegal cockfight in southern India has killed its owner, sparking a manhunt for the organisers of the event, police said Saturday. The bird had a knife attached to its leg ready to take on an opponent when it inflicted serious injuries to the man's groin as it tried to escape, officers said. Source

MONTREAL -- One year after the first COVID-19 case was reported in Quebec on Feb. 27, 2020, the province has now reported 287,003 total cases after it added 858 in the past 24 hours on Saturday. Source

AUSTIN, TEXAS -- When an unusually heavy winter storm blanketed much of Texas with snow, knocking out electricity to millions of homes and leaving many struggling to find clean water, one sector of the population was particularly vulnerable: inmates at the state's largest county jail. Source

Nearly a dozen Trump supporters charged in connection with the U.S. Capitol insurrection have said that Antifa and other left-wing groups weren't involved in the attack, debunking a false-flag conspiracy theory that is gaining popularity in the pro-Trump orbit. Source

Chief Chris Moonias looked into a web camera as he prepared to get a COVID-19 vaccine just after precious doses arrived in his northern Ontario community. "I'm coming to you live from Neskantaga First Nation community centre where our vaccines will be administered," a jovial Moonias, wearing a blue disposable mask, said during a Facebook live video at the start of February. Source

TORONTO -- More than 1,100 new cases of COVID-19 were reported in Ontario Saturday. The 1,185 infections mark a slight decrease from Friday’s total when 1,258 cases were logged. Before the release of Saturday’s report, new COVID-19 cases in the province had been increasing daily over the past four days. Source

Myanmar's U.N. Ambassador Kyaw Moe Tun has been fired, state television said on Saturday, a day after he urged the United Nations to use "any means necessary" to reverse the Feb. 1 military coup. Kyaw Moe Tun had told the U.N. Source