8chan owner to restrict some access during emergencies: House panel testimony
8chan, the online message board linked to several recent mass shootings, plans to restrict parts of the website during a “state of emergency,” the site’s owner Jim Watkins told a U.S. House panel in a written statement.
Floodwaters rise on Charleston’s streets as Hurricane Dorian skirts U.S. coast
Deserted, rain-lashed streets in Charleston, South Carolina, vanished beneath water on Thursday as Hurricane Dorian churned a few dozen miles offshore after reducing parts of the Bahamas to rubble.
U.S. slaps record fine on Michigan State University over Nassar abuse scandal
The U.S. Department of Education has imposed a record $4.5 million fine on Michigan State University for what it called a failure to protect students from sexual abuse and ordered the university to make changes.
‘Everything is gone:’ Bahamians stunned in Dorian’s wake
Stunned residents of the Bahamas surveyed the wreckage of their homes and officials struggled to assess the number killed by Hurricane Dorian, as the storm bore down on the South Carolina coast on Thursday, threatening record flooding.
U.S. moving to block California vehicle emissions rules
Two U.S. agencies are preparing to submit for final White House regulatory review a plan to revoke California’s authority to set its own vehicle greenhouse gas standards and declare that states are pre-empted from setting their own vehicle rules, two p…
Survivor sees Dorian peel off his home’s roof in the Bahamas: ‘This can’t be real’
Bahamas storm survivor Ramond King watched as Hurricane Dorian’s swirling winds ripped the roof off his house in the Abaco Islands, and then as it churned to a neighbor’s home to pluck the entire structure off the earth.
‘Everything is gone:’ Bahamians struggle in Dorian’s devastating wake
Stunned residents of the Bahamas surveyed the wreckage of their homes and officials struggled to assess the number killed by Hurricane Dorian, as the storm bore down on the South Carolina coast, threatening record flooding on Thursday.
Hurricane Dorian devastation in Bahamas could cost $7 billion: KCC
Preliminary estimate of total insured and uninsured losses in the Bahamas from Hurricane Dorian is $7 billion, catastrophe modeling company Karen Clark & Company (KCC) said on Thursday.
Equinor reports onshore oil spill in Bahamas after hurricane
Equinor has discovered an oil spill at its storage terminal in the Bahamas in the aftermath of hurricane Dorian, the Norwegian energy company said in a statement on Thursday.
Leaving Bahamas devastated, Dorian regains strength to crawl up U.S. coast
Hurricane Dorian left stretches of the Bahamas looking as if they had been carpet bombed and was regaining strength as it crawled up the U.S. Atlantic coast, possibly making landfall later on Thursday in South Carolina.
