Month: November 2019

Tehran (AFP) – An earthquake in northwestern Iran on Friday killed three people and injured 20, according to the first official reports on state television. The shallow 5.9-magnitude quake struck about 120 kilometres (75 miles) southeast of the city of Tabriz, in East Azerbaijan Province, in the early hours of the morning, the Iranian Seismological…

VENTURA COUNTY, Calif. — Several minor earthquakes shook Southern California early Thursday morning, including two in Ventura registering a magnitude of 3.4 and 3.2.   The first quake, registering a magnitude of 3.2, began around 4:58 a.m. PT in Ventura and was about 7 miles deep. The 3.4-magnitude earthquake, about 9 miles deep, then hit at 5:05 a.m., according to the United States…

Alone on a remote mountain road after witnessing the slaughter of nine close relatives, the wounded children who had survived a cartel ambush in northern Mexico then endured 10 hours hiding in the barren landscape as they waited for help. One of the survivors, 13-year-old Devin Langford, hid his six surviving siblings in bushes near…

Mexico City (AFP) – Mexican authorities said Wednesday they believe a drug cartel called “La Linea” was responsible for the murder of nine Mormon women and children, saying the massacre was committed with American-made ammunition. The three women and six children, who had dual US-Mexican citizenship, were killed in a hail of bullets Monday as…

The LeBaron family, whose relatives were victims in the ambush in Mexico on Monday, have a history in the country that dates back generations, and includes encounters with drug cartels. The family is part of a group of fundamentalist Mormons who migrated to northern Mexico after polygamy was outlawed in the United States in the…

Fake news articles containing false information about politicians like President Trump and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi reached millions of Facebook users this year in spite of a new initiative that warned users of the untrue claims before they shared the link. A new investigation from Avaaz says the U.S. has been flooded with over 158…

Drew Angerer/Getty Images Facebook is the largest social media service on the planet, with over 2 billion users — over a quarter of the world’s population. As such, policing Facebook is a tremendous challenge. One of the service’s biggest policing issues is with fake news stories, which was a particularly big problem in the US…

Donald Trump supporter and incumbent Republican candidate Matt Bevin lost yesterday’s election for Kentucky governor to Democrat Andy Bashear. Mr Trump supported Mr Bevin’s campaign for governor, hosting a campaign rally the night before the election. At the rally, the president encouraged his supporters to get out and vote saying: “If you lose it sends a really bad message.” But as Mr Bevin’s…

Key point: This wouldn’t be the first time costs concerns have ended a Russian navy program. Russia’s fourth-generation Borei-class was conceived in the early 1980’s as a great leap forward in Russian submarine technology; a new, modern design over its aging Delta and Typhoon predecessors. Armed with nuclear-capable Bulava missiles, the Borei line was meant…

Key point: America and China are both rushing to build robots to fight each other’s neighbors. China may soon have a new weapon to help defend itself against enemy submarines. For years, many have commented on Beijing’s lack of anti-submarine warfare (ASW) capabilities. The Department of Defense’s 2016 report on China’s military, for instance, noted that…