Tag: California

Washington: US President Donald Trump’s administration has announced plans to roll back a ban on new offshore drilling off the coasts of Florida and California and was considering over 40 sites for leasing of natural gas and oil production, the media reported. Thursday’s proposal comes just after the Interior Department issued a stop-work order on […]

Los Angeles: A man from California was arrested in connection with a prank call to police that led to another man’s death in Kansas state, the media reported. The incident is the latest example of swatting, in which a person makes a false report to draw large numbers of law enforcement or SWAT teams to […]

Los Angeles: The most destructive wildfire raging in southern California has expanded significantly, scorching an area bigger than New York City, stated fire officials. The Thomas Fire in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties has consumed 230,000 acres since it broke out on December 4, reports the BBC. Fanned by strong winds, it has become the […]

San Francisco: The toll from massive wildfires raging across California has increased to 40 with thousands more ordered to evacuate from Santa Rosa city as a new blaze threatened the area, police said. The police said evacuations were ordered on Saturday for areas in northeastern Santa Rosa, a city of about 175,000 people roughly 50 […]

Los Angeles: Parts of California’s wine region in the US are being ravaged by fast-spreading fire that has killed at least one person and seriously injured two others. Mass evacuations have been announced as several others are reportedly missing, BBC reported on Monday. About 20,000 people have fled from Napa, Sonoma and Yuba counties after […]

San Francisco: California state has sued President Donald Trump’s administration arguing that its rollback of a requirement for employers to provide contraceptive coverage to workers is unconstitutional and unlawfully targets women, the media reported. The lawsuit, filed in US District Court for the Northern District of California here on Friday, comes hours after the Department […]

San Francisco: In a bid to bolster its Mixed Reality vision, Microsoft has acquired Redwood City, California-based virtual reality social network AltspaceVR for an undisclosed sum. “With the AltspaceVR team aboard, we look forward to building the world’s pre-eminent mixed reality community,” Alex Kipman, Microsoft’s inventor of HoloLens, said in a post late on Tuesday. […]

San Francisco:  A US court has allowed the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to keep secret the information regarding the tool that was used to hack iPhone 5C used by terrorist Syed Farook who killed 14 people in San Bernardino, California, in December 2015. According to technology website ZDNet, some leading media houses filed a […]

Los Angeles: Hugh Hefner, who created the Playboy magazine and spun it into a media and entertainment-industry giant, has died at his home, the Playboy Mansion near Beverly Hills, California. He was 91. His death was announced by Playboy Enterprises via Twitter on Wednesday night. Hefner turned the magazine into a multimillion-dollar entertainment empire that […]

New York: Researchers from the University of California San Diego School of Medicine have developed a new tool to assess an individual’s level of wisdom. Called the San Diego Wisdom Scale (SD-WISE), the scale is based upon a conceptualisation of wisdom as a trait with a neurobiological as well as psychosocial basis. “There is evidence […]

New York: An earthquake measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale has struck off California in the Pacific Ocean, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said. The quake, with a magnitude of 5.8, was then followed by a second quake of 5.6 closer to shore, The Sun reported on Friday. The epicentre, with a depth of 12.0 […]

Washington: A 12-year-old Indian-American girl from California has won the 90th National Spelling Bee, the media reported. Ananya Vinay and another Indian-American Rohan Rajeev faced each other in the final round on Thursday night at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Centre in Maryland, The Washington Post reported. Ananya won on the word “marocain”, a fabric. […]

Washington: The Pentagon has confirmed that it has successfully completed an intercontinental ballistic missile interception test from its California base aimed at ensuring the effectiveness of the anti-missile system amid growing tensions with North Korea. The interception took place as scheduled on Tuesday over the Pacific Ocean, when a rocket launched from the Vandenberg base […]

Washington: Popping over-the-counter antacids daily to control acidity or heartburn can increase heart attack risk by 16-21 percent, a huge data-mining study led by an Indian-origin researcher has revealed. The researchers analysed 16 million clinical documents of 2.9 million patients in two separate databases. “People who take medication to suppress stomach acid are at greater […]

Taptejdeep Singh, who was a light rail operator at the Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) for nine years, was the first victim to be publicly identified by his family.