Author: Justin M. Larson

A protester walks with an Indonesian flag in front of a police headquarters that was set on fire and looted during demonstrations in Surabaya on August 31, 2025.Juni Kriswanto | Afp | Getty Images Indonesia is facing a tough political climate, as it grapples with protests over rising living costs, lawmakers’ pay and police violence, hurting investor sentiment in Southeast Asia’s largest economy.The Jakarta Composite Index fell as much as 3.6% on Monday, while the Indonesian rupiah depreciated to 16,500 against the U.S. dollar — its weakest intra-day level since Aug. 1 — according to LSEG data.While the violence and…

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It’s tomato season and Lidia is harvesting on farms in California’s Central Valley.She is also anxious. Attention from U.S. Immigration Control and Enforcement could upend her life more than 23 years after she illegally crossed the U.S.-Mexico border as a teenager. “The worry is they’ll pull you over when you’re driving and ask for your papers,” said Lidia, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition that only her first name be used because of her fears of deportation. “We need to work. We need to feed our families and pay our rent.”As parades and other events celebrating the contributions…

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LONDON — A 6.0 magnitude earthquake struck eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, destroying what one official described as several villages, although it was unclear early Monday how many casualties there were.The powerful earthquake struck about 17 miles east of Jalalabad, near the border with Pakistan, according to preliminary data from the U.S. Geological Survey.The Afghan health minister said that several villages in the Nurgal district of Kunar — including Sholt, Arit, Mamagal, Wadir and others — had been all but destroyed. Others suffered significant damage, the minister said.People carry an earthquake victim on a stretcher to an ambulance at an airport…

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A US judge has temporarily blocked an attempt by the Trump administration to deport dozens of unaccompanied Guatemalan children back to their home country.District Court Judge Sparkle Sooknanan’s order on Sunday was in response to reports children had been put onto planes and were about to be sent to Guatemala, where lawyers argued they would be at risk of abuse and persecution.The children arrived in the US alone and are in government custody while their immigration claims are assessed.Guatemala’s President Bernardo Arevalo and lawyers for the US justice department and said the children were not being deported, but rather repatriated…

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The GOP-led House Oversight Committee has officially withdrawn its request for former special counsel Robert Mueller to testify before the panel, a committee spokesperson told ABC News.”We’ve learned that Mr. Mueller has health issues that preclude him from being able to testify,” the spokesperson said.Then-FBI Director Robert Mueller speaks during a news conference at the FBI headquarters June 25, 2008, in Washington, D.C. The news conference was to mark the 5th anniversary of Innocence Lost initiative. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)Alex Wong/Getty ImagesChairman James Comer subpoenaed Mueller to appear on Tuesday, Sept. 2, as part of the committee’s broad investigation…

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Engineers are in the final testing phase of a cockpit alert system they say could prevent close calls on the runway. Honeywell Aerospace’s “Surface Alert System,” or “SURF-A,” can detect when a rogue aircraft gets in the way of another plane that has been cleared for takeoff or landing. The system gives pilots two aural alerts when an unauthorized aircraft enters the runway on a collision course with the authorized aircraft. The first alert sounds 30 seconds before a collision, and the second alert sounds 15 seconds before a…

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Steven McIntoshEntertainment reporter at the Venice Film FestivalGetty ImagesSaltburn star Jacob Elordi (right) stars as Frankenstein’s creation in the film from Guillermo del Toro (left)A few years ago, Netflix boss Ted Sarandos was meeting with Guillermo del Toro when he asked the celebrated director which films were on his bucket list. Del Toro answered with two names: “Pinocchio and Frankenstein.””Do it,” Sarandos replied, effectively agreeing to fund both projects for the streaming giant. The first film, Del Toro’s acclaimed dark-fantasy version of Pinocchio, arrived in 2022.But when it came to starting work on Frankenstein, del Toro had one warning: “It’s…

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A suspect in the fatal shooting of prominent Ukrainian politician Andriy Parubiy has been arrested, the country’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has said.The 54-year-old parliamentarian was killed by an attacker posing as a courier in the western city of Lviv on Saturday, sparking a manhunt.Ukraine’s interior minister Igor Klymenko said in a statement issued in the early hours of Monday morning that the suspect had been detained in the western Khmelnytskyi region.Parubiy rose to prominence during Ukraine’s Euromaidan mass protests, which advocated closer ties with the EU and brought down pro-Russian former President Viktor Yanukovych in 2014.Klymenko said the preliminary investigation…

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An employee packages garments for the online Chinese e-commerce company Temu at a clothing factory in Guangzhou, in southern China’s Guangdong province on April 16, 2025. Jade Gao | Afp | Getty ImagesChina’s manufacturing activity unexpectedly returned to growth in August on the back of rising new orders and export business recovery, a private survey showed Monday, helped by a trade-war truce with the U.S.The private survey RatingDog purchasing managers’ index came in at 50.5, sharply beating the estimate of 49.7 among economists polled by Reuters.The gauge signaled the fastest rate of expansion since March, rebounding from July’s 49.5. A…

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Jacob EvansBBC World ServiceGetty ImagesAnguilla is a British Overseas Territory renowned for its pristine beachesBack in the 1980s when the internet was still in its infancy, countries were being handed their own unique website addresses to navigate this nascent new online world. Such as .us for the US or .uk for the UK.Eventually, almost every country and territory had a domain based on either its English or own language name. This included the small Caribbean island of Anguilla, which landed the address .ai.Unbeknownst to Anguilla at the time, this would become a future jackpot.With the continuing boom in artificial intelligence…

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Ulsan city skyline from the Hamwolru Pavilion. People can enjoy beautiful cityscape for free. Ulsan, South Korea.Insung Jeon | Moment | Getty ImagesAsia-Pacific markets were poised to open mostly lower Monday as investors assess a U.S. federal appeals court ruling that most of U.S. President Donald Trump’s “reciprocal tariffs are illegal.” The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held Friday ruled that Trump had overstepped his presidential authority by imposing levies on virtually every country in the world as part of his April 2 “liberation day” announcement.Investors will also be assessing the developments in India and China relations, after leaders from both…

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A 10-year-old Texas boy was shot and critically injured when he allegedly attempted a door-knocking prank on a neighbor, police said.The shooting unfolded around 10:55 p.m. on Saturday at a home on Membrough Street in southeast Houston, Shay Awosiyan, a spokesman for the Houston Police Department, told ABC News on Sunday.”A 10-year-old was apparently knocking on neighbors’ doors and running away when someone apparently fired shots,” Awosiyan said.Awosiyan said one person was detained at the scene of the shooting and was being questioned, but no charges have been filed.A 10-year-old boy was shot and critically injured in Houston, Texas, August…

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