Author: DA Correspondent

India tightens regulatory grip on Facebook, WhatsApp with new rules

US plans for fake social media run afoul of Facebook rules

2:49 am September 4, 2019

WASHINGTON: Facebook said Tuesday that the US Department of Homeland Security would be violating the company’s rules if agents create fake profiles to monitor the social media of foreigners seeking to enter the country. “Law enforcement authorities, like everyone else, are required to use their real names on Facebook and we make this policy clear,” […]

California: 34 presumed dead after fire on scuba diving boat

2:37 am September 4, 2019

SANTA BARBARA, California: No one likely escaped the flames that tore through a boat packed with scuba divers, with all 34 people sleeping below deck presumed dead during a Labor Day weekend expedition off the Southern California coast, authorities said Tuesday as they called off the search for survivors. Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown […]

Dorian: Forecasters say Bahamas faces record hurricane

Bahamas: Upper atmosphere gridlock stalled Hurricane Dorian

2:21 am September 4, 2019

Freeport, Bahamas: Hurricane Dorian is finally moving. But for a day-and-half it just sat on and pounded Grand Bahamas Island because nothing high up in the atmosphere was making it budge. That meteorological gridlock, which slows or stalls storms, is happening more often in a warming world, studies show. Before Dorian picked up speed Tuesday […]

NOAA chief thanks Alabama weather office in Hurricane Dorian forecast

Deadly Hurricane Dorian slams parts of the Bahamas

2:16 am September 4, 2019

FREEPORT, Bahamas: Relief officials reported scenes of utter ruin in parts of the Bahamas and rushed to deal with an unfolding humanitarian crisis in the wake of Hurricane Dorian, the most powerful storm on record ever to hit the islands. At least five deaths were reported, with the full scope of the disaster still unknown. […]

Texas relaxed gun laws after recent mass shootings

Walmart to stop selling handgun ammunition

11:18 pm September 3, 2019

NEW YORK: Walmart says it will discontinue the sale of handgun ammunition and also publicly request that customers refrain from openly carrying firearms in stores even where state laws allow it. The announcement comes just days after a mass shooting claimed seven lives in Odessa, Texas and follows two other back-to-back shootings last month, one […]