Mar 29 Sat

Myanmar's military government said the death toll from Friday's catastrophic 7.7-magnitude earthquake surpassed 1,600 people in that country alone, with the number expected to continue to rise. NBC News' Janis Mackey Frayer reports from Bangkok, Thailand. A small plane crashed in Minnesota on Saturday, engulfing a home with flames. It comes after a separate close call yesterday between a passenger plane and a fighter jet near Reagan National Airport, just two months after the deadly crash there that killed 67 people in January. NBC News' Marissa Parra has the latest. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is facing a new controversy on Saturday after the Wall Street Journal reported that his wife, who is not a Pentagon employee, attended sensitive Defense Department meetings that included foreign leaders. NBC News' Yamiche Alcindor has the details. Dr. Peter Marks, the Food and Drug Administration's top vaccine regulator, has resigned, an official at the Department of Health and Human Services said Friday. In his resignation letter, Marks criticized Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. NBC News' Steve Patterson has more. Federal officials say as much as 60 percent of all fentanyl brought into the U.S. comes through Phoenix, and now the Drug Enforcement Administration is ramping up resources to stop it. NBC News' Ken Dilanian has an inside look at their efforts to stop drug smugglers along the border. In an NBC News exclusive interview on Saturday, President Trump spoke on the phone with "Meet the Press" moderator Kristen Welker about the controversy surrounding a Signal group chat that a journalist was included in detailing U.S. military strike plans, his plans for reciprocal tariffs, along with his interest in potentially annexing Greenland.