Australia’s Privacy Commissioner said on Thursday she had opened a formal investigation into social media giant Facebook Inc after the company confirmed data from 300,000 Australian users may have been used without authorization. The investigation will consider whether Facebook has breached Australia’s privacy laws, Privacy Commissioner Angelene Falk said in …
your ad hereTrump Administration Seeks to Temper China Trade War Fears
President Donald Trump said Wednesday the United States is not in a trade war with China, after Beijing announced plans to impose tariffs on $50 billion worth of U.S. goods in response to a similar package announced by the United States. In a Twitter post Wednesday, Trump contended, “We are …
your ad hereWall Street Closes Higher as China Tariff Fears Ease
Wall Street’s three major indexes staged a comeback to close around 1 percent higher Wednesday as investors turned their focus to earnings and away from a trade conflict between the United States and China that wreaked havoc in earlier trading. After investors fled equities in the morning because of proposed retaliatory tariffs from China, …
your ad hereAfter 35 Years, First Cinema to Reopen in Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia’s first movie theater in more than 35 years will open on April 18 in the capital Riyadh. AMC Entertainment, the world’s largest movie theater chain, said Wednesday it has been granted the license to open up to 40 theaters in 15 Saudi cities over the next five years. …
your ad hereGraceland Opens Vault for Elvis Documentary to Air on HBO
A new television documentary about Elvis Presley takes advantage of the vast collection of footage, pictures, documents and music from his estate to give a behind-the-scenes look at the king of rock ‘n’ roll. “Elvis Presley: The Searcher,” a two-part, three-hour documentary, will premiere April 14 on HBO. Director Thom …
your ad hereFemale Shooter Targets YouTube Headquarters
Police say a woman shooter entered YouTube headquarters in California Tuesday and wounded at least three people before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Mike O’Sullivan reports, the shooter’s motive is unknown. …
your ad hereGiving World’s Unfamiliar Music the Exposure it Deserves
Record producer, Ian Brennan, and his wife Marilena Delli, a photographer and documentary filmmaker, are on a quest for the unknown and unfamiliar. Their passion for discovering uniqueness in human stories and music has taken them to far-flung places around the world, from Malawi to record songs by prisoners, to …
your ad hereRapper Safaree Robbed at Gunpoint of $183,000
A rapper and reality star says he was robbed at gunpoint in New Jersey in what was “one of the worst, scariest nights of my life.” Safaree Samuels says the robbery happened Monday in Fort Lee around 2 a.m. The 36-year-old told WWPR-FM two men ran up and had him …
your ad hereCosby Defense Alleges Discrimination in Jury Selection
Bill Cosby’s lawyers challenged the prosecution’s exclusion of a black woman from serving on the jury at his sexual assault retrial, alleging Wednesday that the decision was made on the basis of her race. Prosecutors pushed back, noting two blacks already have been seated on the panel that will sit …
your ad hereEx-Ford Employee Awarded Nearly $17 Million in Discrimination Lawsuit
A jury has awarded nearly $17 million to a former Ford engineer who sued the automaker for discrimination because he says two supervisors repeatedly berated and criticized him for his Arab background and accent. The Detroit Free Press reports that a federal jury in Michigan ruled March 28 that Faisal …
your ad here‘Avengers: Infinity War’ Directors, Downey Ask for Secrecy
Actor Robert Downey Jr. is joining the directors of Avengers: Infinity War in calling for fans to maintain secrecy. The star tweeted “no spoilers please.” He signed it with the #ThanosDemandsYourSilence. Thanos is the fictional Marvel Comics villain who will be portrayed by Josh Brolin in the movie. Downey plays …
your ad here‘Grotesque’ Red Carpet Selfies Banned at Cannes Festival
Want to take a selfie on the red carpet during the Cannes Film Festival? Well, you can’t. That’s the message from top festival official Thierry Fremaux, who says red carpet-selfies will be banned at this year’s star-studded event. Violators, he said on Europe-1 radio Wednesday, won’t be let in to …
your ad hereBaltimore Seeks US Supreme Court Review of Abortion Ruling
Attorneys in Baltimore are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a ruling that struck down as unconstitutional an ordinance requiring pregnancy centers notify patients if they don’t offer abortion or birth control services. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in January that the ordinance unconstitutionally compelled speech …
your ad hereYouTube Shooter Told Family She ‘Hated’ the Company
A woman who believed she was being suppressed by YouTube and told her family members she “hated” the company opened fire at YouTube’s headquarters in California, wounding three people before taking her own life, police said. Investigators do not believe Nasim Aghdam specifically targeted the three victims when she pulled …
your ad hereFacebook CEO to Testify Before Congressional Committee
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will testify before a congressional committee about the privacy scandal that has rocked the social media company. The House and Energy and Commerce Committee announced Wednesday Zuckerberg will testify on April 11 about the British consulting firm Cambridge Analytica, which obtained data on tens of millions …
your ad hereCDC: Drug-resistant ‘Nightmare Bacteria’ Pose Growing Threat
“Nightmare bacteria” with unusual resistance to antibiotics of last resort were found more than 200 times in the United States last year in a first-of-a-kind hunt to see how much of a threat these rare cases are becoming, health officials said Tuesday. That’s more than they had expected to find, …
your ad hereClosure of Top Philippine Resort Island Would Shake up Business to Cut Pollution
The possible closure of a major coastal tourism magnet in the Philippines for environmental cleanup will hurt business, but for a cause that helps everyone longer term, experts say. President Rodrigo Duterte said via the presidential website in March he would place Boracay Island under a “state of calamity.” The …
your ad hereScientists Debate Return to the Moon
It’s been 45 years since men last set foot on the Moon. The year was 1972. Back then, the fastest commercially available microprocessor could handle a maximum of 16 kilobytes of memory. Today the average smartphone can crunch several millions of kilobytes. But huge leaps in computing power have not …
your ad hereChina Announces $50 Billion in Retaliatory Tariffs on US Goods
China announced Wednesday it plans to impose tariffs on $50 billion worth of U.S. goods in response to a similar package announced by the United States. The Chinese measures would boost tariffs by 25 percent on 106 U.S. products, including soybeans, aircraft and cars. China’s commerce ministry responded with its …
your ad hereData Analysis Guides Mobile Clinics to Where They’re Needed Most
Health care in the United States doesn’t have to take place in a doctor’s office or clinic building. There are some 2000 mobile health clinics around the country, delivering medical, dental, pre-natal and pediatric care, preventive screenings and more. These vans go where the patients are – libraries, schools, grocery …
your ad hereVideo Shows Media Company’s Local TV Station Messaging
A U.S. media broadcast group ordered local news anchors to read a statement expressing concern about “the troubling trend of irresponsible, one-sided news stories plaguing the country,” — then accused other networks and some members of the media for pushing their own biases. Deadspin, a sports news and blog web …
your ad hereTech CEOs Call for Gun Control Following YouTube Shooting
Several Silicon Valley leaders called for increased gun control on Tuesday afternoon after a woman at the headquarters of YouTube shot and wounded three people before taking her own life. Tech companies have largely avoided the topic of gun control in the United States, but they have previously pushed for …
your ad hereCoffee Conquers Conflict for Business-savvy Farmers in the Philippines
Five years ago, Filipina farmer Marivic Dubria would buy Nescafe sachets to serve visitors because she was embarrassed by the quality of the coffee she grew next to her main vegetable crops. Life was tough for her family in Mindanao, the second largest island in the Philippines, as they struggled …
your ad hereAmazon Shares Finish Higher Despite Trump’s New Threat on Shipping Rates
The largest American business lobby group came to the defense of Amazon.com on Tuesday after a multi-day Twitter attack by U.S. President Donald Trump that included unsubstantiated criticism of the world’s biggest online retailer. The value of Amazon shares held by Jeff Bezos, the online retailer’s chief executive and single …
your ad hereDeveloping Nations to Study Ways to Dim Sunshine, Slow Warming
Scientists in developing nations plan to step up research into dimming sunshine to curb climate change, hoping to judge whether a man-made chemical sunshade would be less risky than a harmful rise in global temperatures. Research into “solar geo-engineering,” which would mimic big volcanic eruptions that can cool the Earth …
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