Facebook, Google and Twitter will tell Congress that Russia’s election meddling was wider than they first reported
Facebook, Google and Twitter plan to tell congressional investigators this week that the scope of Russia’s campaign to spread disinformation on their sites — and to potentially disrupt the 2016 U.S. presidential race — is much broader than the companies initially reported. At Facebook, roughly…
Catalonia Declares Full Independence From Spain
For the first time in Spain’s democratic history, the government will take direct control over one of the country’s autonomous regions, after lawmakers in Catalonia ended weeks of agonized fence-sitting on Friday and voted to secede. The dueling declarations — by the national parliament in…
9.7-million-year-old teeth discovery in Germany could re-write human history
The great ape teeth found in Eppelsheim last year could topple the understanding of our earliest history. Herbert Lutz, head of the excavation team, tells Deutsche Welle what the find means to him — and how it almost didn’t happen. A little over a year ago, a team…
Oral sex can cause mouth and throat cancer study says
Lotharios who smoke and go down on their girlfriends are more likely to get a rare mouth and throat cancer. Smokers who have had more than five sexual partners are at greater risk of getting the cancer triggered by the human papilloma virus. But scientists…
Catalonia Voted to Breakup With Spain.
The hours before the president of Catalonia took the podium, the rumors were coming thick and fast. No one seemed sure if Carles Puigdemont would declare independence unilaterally for the region of Spain he leads, or if he would sue for negotiations with the Madrid…
Mexico City Earth Quake is Massive 7.1 Magnitude
Rescuers combed through rubble Tuesday after a powerful earthquake killed scores and collapsed buildings in Mexico City and surrounding states on the anniversary of a devastating earthquake decades ago. At least 149 people died in the magnitude-7.1 earthquake, officials said. Most deaths were reported in…
5 iPhone 8 secrets spilled by Apple
1. Apple is set to release 3 iPhones One block of code. That’s all it took to inject a massive dose of credibility into the biggest rumor around Apple’s Tuesday reveal. Which rumor, you ask? The rumor where Apple will announce *three* new iPhones instead of…
China looks at plans to ban petrol and diesel cars
China, the world’s biggest car market, plans to ban the production and sale of diesel and petrol cars and vans. The country’s vice minister of industry said it had started “relevant research” but that it had not yet decided when the ban would come into…
Hurricane Irma looters caught on camera
Police have arrested nearly a dozen people accused of looting hurricane-shuttered stores around Fort Lauderdale as brutal Hurricane Irma bore down on the beachside city 30 miles north of Miami. Fort Lauderdale police said they arrested nine people Sunday on suspicion of looting a pawn shop and…
New device can heal with a single touch
A new device has been developed at The Ohio State University, which turns cells into other types of cells required for treating diseased conditions. During testing, one touch completely repaired injured legs of mice over three weeks. The technology, known as Tissue Nanotransfection (TNT), has the…
