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10 Things to Know for Today

Posted March 12, 2018 7:00 am

By The Associated Press

Yellow buoys that a New York police officer said are suspending a helicopter that crashed into the East River float next to a NYPD police boat at a pier in New York on Sunday, March 11, 2018. The helicopter crashed into New York City's East River Sunday night and flipped upside down in the water, killing at least a few people aboard and leaving some others in critical condition, officials said. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki) The Associated Press

Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:

1. TRUMP BACKS OFF PUSH FOR RAISING ASSAULT RIFLE PURCHASE AGE

The administration did pledge to help states pay for firearms training for teachers and reiterate its call to improve the background check and mental health systems.

2. HELICOPTER IN NEW YORK CITY CRASH HAD SPOTTY RECORD

The Eurocopter AS350 that plunged into the East River killing five is owned by Liberty Helicopters, which was involved in a fatal crash over the Hudson River in 2009.

3. DOZENS KILLED IN NEPAL PLANE CRASH

The passenger plane, a twin-propeller Bombardier Dash 8 flying from Bangladesh, swerved repeatedly before it crashed near the runway, killing at least 38 people.

4. DESPITE RHETORIC, LITTLE CHANGE ON US-MEXICO BORDER

The daily commute from Mexico to California for thousands of low-paid farm workers hasn't changed since Trump became president.

5. NORTH KOREA STILL MUM ON TRUMP SUMMIT

Pyongyang has been surprisingly quiet on the slew of momentous, and possibly even historic, events that have come in quick succession over the past few months.

6. WHAT HAS SHATTERED HOPES FOR CHINA'S LIBERALIZATION

Once thought to be the next great reformer, Xi Jinping is now poised to rule indefinitely after Beijing's rubber-stamp legislature voted to eliminate presidential term limits.

7. WHO CAN RELATE TO WHAT'S HAPPENING IN PARKLAND

Participants of the 1968 L.A. school walkouts that sparked Mexican-American youth activism say they see similarities with Florida student activists seeking to change gun laws.

8. BARBERSHOP STUDY TRIMMED BLACK MEN'S HAIR - AND BLOOD PRESSURE

Black men reduced hypertension through a novel project that shows the power of familiar faces and trusted places to improve health.

9. 'HE'S BEEN SUPER DEHYDRATED'

That's what Faith Hill says about her husband, country music star Tim McGraw, who collapsed on stage during a performance in Ireland but is expected to recover.

10. FOR COLLEGE BASKETBALL, A REPRIEVE

March Madness will provide a three-week break from the troubling headlines that have consumed the sport this season.

Nepalese rescuers stand near a passenger plane from Bangladesh that crashed at the airport in Kathmandu, Nepal, Monday, March 12, 2018. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shreshta) The Associated Press

In this March 6, 2018 photo, farmworker Eduardo Garcia, of Mexicali, Mexico, center, puts on an apron and gloves in the glow from the taillights of a bus, as he and his crew arrive at a cabbage field ready for harvest, before dawn outside of Calexico, Calif. For decades, cross-border commuters have picked lettuce, carrots, broccoli, onions, cauliflower and other vegetables that make California's Imperial Valley "America's Salad Bowl" from December through March. As Trump visits the border for the first time as president on Tuesday, March 13, the harvest is a reminder of how little has changed despite heated rhetoric in Washington. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull) The Associated Press

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