Puerto Rico ‘100 percent without power’ after Maria hits
Hurricane Maria arrived in Puerto Rico early Wednesday — bringing the most severe weather conditions the U.S. territory has seen in nearly 100 years and blacking out the entire island.
Hurricane Maria arrived in Puerto Rico early Wednesday — bringing the most severe weather conditions the U.S. territory has seen in nearly 100 years and blacking out the entire island.
Rescue teams frantically sifted through debris of a flattened schoolhouse in Mexico City Wednesday, in a race to find dozens of children who remain unaccounted for, just hours after a 7.1-magnitude earthquake hit.
The whistleblowing group WikiLeaks has released new documents that the group claims outlines a mass surveillance system used by the Russian state to spy on Internet and mobile device users. The latest release, titled “Spy Files,” claims that a well-known Russian company that provides software to telecommunication companies is also, under state orders, installing infrastructure enabling the Russian government to spy on citizen’s digital activity.
Thousands of buildings, many on Los Angeles’ most famous streets from Sunset to Hollywood Boulevard, are highly prone to earthquake damage. Retrofitting for seismic strengthening while costly has become more urgent following Mexico’s earthquake.