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At least 3 dead after mob sets fire to Indonesian regional parliament building 08/30/2025 02:32pm • JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) ��� An angry mob set fire to a local parliament building in an Indonesian provincial capital, leaving at least three people dead and five others hospitalized, officials said. The blaze in Makassar, the capital city of South Sulawesi province, began late Friday. Television rep What happens to Trump���s tariffs now that a federal appeals court has knocked them down? 08/30/2025 10:16am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� President Donald Trump has audaciously claimed virtually unlimited power to bypass Congress and impose sweeping taxes on foreign products. Now a federal appeals court has thrown a roadblock in his path. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled Friday that Trump wen Cruise industry group sues to challenge Hawaii's tourism tax designed to deal with climate change 08/29/2025 10:15pm • HONOLULU (AP) ��� A lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Hawaii imposing a tourist tax to deal with consequences of climate change seeks to stop officials from enforcing the new law on cruise ship passengers. In the nation's first such levy to help cope with a warming planet, Hawaii Gov. Jos Oregon could join Hawaii in mandating pay-per-mile fees for EV owners as gas tax projections fall 08/29/2025 09:44pm • Oregon could become the second U.S. state to require electric vehicle owners to enroll in a pay-per-mile program as lawmakers began a special session Friday to fill a $300 million transportation budget hole that threatens basic services like snowplowing and road repairs. However, the special session The Latest: Trump blocks $4.9 billion in foreign aid approved by Congress 08/29/2025 09:34pm • In a letter sent Thursday to Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson, President Donald Trump said he would not be spending $4.9 billion in congressionally approved foreign aid ��� effectively cutting the budget without going through the legislative branch. The letter was posted Friday morning on the X Randy 'Duke' Cunningham, Vietnam War hero convicted of accepting bribes as a congressman, dies at 83 08/29/2025 09:26pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� Randy ���Duke��� Cunningham, whose feats as a U.S. Navy flying ace during the Vietnam War catapulted him to a U.S House of Representatives career that ended in disgrace when he was convicted of accepting $2.4 million in bribes, has died. He was 83. Cunningham died Wednesday at a Court finds Trump's tariffs an illegal use of emergency power, but leaves them in place for now 08/29/2025 08:51pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� A federal appeals court ruled Friday that President Donald Trump had no legal right to impose sweeping tariffs on almost every country on earth but left in place for now his effort to build a protectionist wall around the American economy. The ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeal Sunblock, charcoal ... and Powerball? Holiday weekend lottery drawing worth $1 billion 08/29/2025 08:02pm • DETROIT (AP) ��� This could buy a lot of Labor Day weekend sunblock: Saturday's Powerball jackpot is estimated at $1 billion, the sixth-largest prize in the game's history. Powerball, which costs $2 per ticket, is played in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands California energy regulators pause efforts to penalize oil companies for high profits 08/29/2025 07:19pm • SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) ��� California energy regulators Friday put the brakes on plans requiring oil companies to pay a penalty if their profits climb too high, a temporary win for the fossil fuel industry two years after the governor declared the state had ���finally beat big oil.��� The postponem Bookmaker linked to baseball star Shohei Ohtani's interpreter sentenced to just over a year 08/29/2025 07:08pm • SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) ��� A Southern California bookmaker who took thousands of sports bets from the former interpreter for baseball star Shohei Ohtani was sentenced Friday to just over a year in prison. Mathew Bowyer, 50, pleaded guilty last year to running an illegal gambling business, money laun Powerball jackpot now an estimated $1 billion for Saturday's drawing 08/29/2025 05:34pm • The Powerball jackpot is now an estimated $1 billion for Saturday night's drawing.There was no grand prize winner for Wednesday's roughly $850 million jackpot, and Powerball initially said the increased jackpot was approximately $950 million. Game leaders reviewed national ticket sales and incr A Mississippi city's tax break spurred post-Katrina building. But will homes stand the next storm? 08/29/2025 02:31pm • GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) ��� Rocking on his front porch overlooking the Mississippi Sound, former Gulfport Mayor Billy Hewes questions how anyone wouldn���t want to live there. ���People are always going to gravitate to the water,��� he said. ���And we have a beautiful waterfront.��� But it was far fro Fed governor Cook seeks court order blocking her firing by Trump 08/29/2025 01:44pm • A lawyer for Lisa Cook on Friday urged a U.S. judge to let the Federal Reserve governor keep her job while she fights President Donald Trump's attempt to fire her in a stunning assault on the central bank's independence. The case in the U.S. District Court in Washington D.C. could provide Trump with Gov. Meyer vetoes bill to loosen marijuana zoning regulations in Delaware 08/29/2025 01:35pm • Gov. Matt Meyer vetoed a bill Thursday that would have loosened regulations around where marijuana businesses can locate in Delaware, likely further delaying the growth of the weeks-old industry. But the governor also offered a competing proposal on such zoning reforms, based upon revenue-sharing fr Tensions soar in Indonesia as protests over police brutality and lawmakers' allowances continue 08/29/2025 01:02pm • JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) ��� Protests erupted for a fifth day Friday in multiple cities and tensions soared across Indonesia, a day after a delivery rider was allegedly run over by a police armored vehicle during clashes between riot police and students protesting lawmakers' allowances. Protesters m