Indonesia fires dozens of immigration officers after leak details airport extortion scheme
Published: 1:22pm, 5 Feb 2025Updated: 1:23pm, 5 Feb 2025 Indonesia has removed dozens of immigration officers and launched an internal probe after a leaked...
US Attorney Suggests Prosecutions Coming Over ‘Targeting’ of DOGE Employees
So far, few details have been released and it’s not clear what laws were violated. The acting U.S. attorney for the District of Colombia...
Democrats Try to Enter Treasury Building Over DOGE Access
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and others rallied with lawmakers as speakers floated strategies to stop Trump. WASHINGTON—Congressional Democrats tried to gain entry to...
USAID Puts All Direct Hire Personnel on Administrative Leave
Personnel handling the State Department agency’s essential duties have been exempted. The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) issued a directive on Feb. 4...
Florida Watchdogs Raise Questions About Mail-in Voting Practices in 2024 General Election
The watchdogs said they have found that over 476,000 Florida voters in 2024 cast ballots without providing legally required ID. A couple of election...
OpenAI’s video generation tool Sora sees Hollywood resistance amid data, labour concerns
Newspaper publishers have licensed articles for millions of dollars. Record labels have filed lawsuits. But when it comes to the commercial potential of artificial...
Southeast Asia’s poorest nation says ‘holding off’ Chinese interest in huge gas field
Published: 12:49pm, 5 Feb 2025Updated: 12:58pm, 5 Feb 2025 East Timor would prefer to work with Australia and partners Woodside Energy and Japan’s Osaka...
Speaker Johnson Renews House Select Committee on the CCP
The committee has been renewed for a second term to continue work that the House speaker deems crucial. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on...
China’s biggest 2024 science advances are shaping future of healthcare, chips, space race
As China and the United States go head-to-head in the arenas of science and technology, some of China’s top scientists have rated the most...