Informing, engaging & connecting the people of the world. OCTOBER 30, 2019

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China’s direct investment in the U.S. has slowed to a trickle, dropping by 80% from 2016 to 2018, according to New York-based research provider Rhodium Group.

ON THIS DAY IN AMERICAN HISTORY On October 30, 1938, a realistic radio dramatization of a Martian invasion of Earth triggers nationwide panic. The ‘War of the Worlds’ broadcast, organized by a young Orson Welles, led up to a million listeners to believe the fictional Martian invasion was really happening. In New Jersey, where the aliens supposedly landed, terrified people jammed highways trying to escape.

VIDEO: While enrollment in community colleges has declined across America in recent years, experts say they’re still a convenient and cost-effective way for American and international students to earn a degree.

Months of unrelenting militia attacks in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo are driving more people from their homes, adding to the millions already displaced and threatening to spread insecurity elsewhere in Africa’s Great Lakes region, observers warn.

VIDEO: On Halloween, the spookiest day of the year, it’s traditional for children in the United States to wear costumes to go ‘trick or treating’ in their neighborhoods to ask for candy. Some communities also have Halloween parades. Earlier this week, characters like pirates, angels and scarecrows marched in Alexandria, Virginia, just outside Washington.

Indonesia is perhaps the last liberal democracy in Southeast Asia, so analysts had high hopes that President Joko Widodo could promote civil rights and transparency, while steering an open economy to more global trade. However, as the president enters his second term this month, those expectations are coming back down to earth.