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HOUSTON (AP) — A Guatemalan official says that he was told by the father of an 8-year-old boy who died in U.S. custody that the two had been traveling from their home in the Central American country to Tennessee, and that his son had been in "perfect health." Oscar Padilla, the Guatemalan consul in Phoenix, also confirmed Tuesday that the boy's name was Felipe Gomez Alonzo.
SUMUR, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian authorities are asking people near an island volcano to avoid the coast while eruptions and weather and sea conditions are monitored for tsunami risks. A tsunami that followed an eruption of Anak Krakatoa hit communities along the Sunda Strait on Saturday night, killing hundreds. Officials say said high waves and heavy rains are possible Wednesday and the wall of the volcano's crater is prone to collapse.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A 7-year-old who talked to President Donald Trump still left out milk and cookies for Santa. That's after Trump told her it was "marginal" for someone her age to still believe. Then again, Collman Lloyd of Lexington, South Carolina, told the Post and Courier of Charleston that she'd never heard the word "marginal" before. Trump's chat with Collman was initially reported as being with a boy named Coleman.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says that many federal workers have told him they support the partial government shutdown because they want his border wall project to receive funding. Trump made that assertion on Tuesday while talking with reporters at the White House. The president added that he can't say when the shutdown that started last Saturday will end.
TOKYO (AP) — Japan is leaving the International Whaling Commission to resume commercial hunts but it will no longer hunt in the Antarctic. Its commercial whaling will be limited to its territorial and economic waters. The IWC imposed a commercial moratorium in the 1980s due to a dwindling whale population. Japan says IWC doesn't meet its dual purpose of conservation and sustaining whaling because it is dominated by conservationists.
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