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Call it an about-face ― that’s about faces. On Tuesday, Facebook reversed a years-old policy about facial recognition technology on the platform. It will now require new users to explicitly opt in to the use of facial recognition tech, rather than making it the default setting. Meanwhile, existing users familiar with the “tag suggestions” option will see […]

Hurricane Dorian is finally moving. But for a day-and-half it just sat on and pounded Grand Bahama Island because nothing high up in the atmosphere was making it budge. That meteorological gridlock, which slows or stalls storms, is happening more often in a warming world, studies show. Before Dorian picked up speed Tuesday morning, the

“All we’re saying is that patients have a right to choose as opposed to the right being denied them by the forces of paternalism,” he said. Dr. Don Rucker of the Department of Health and Human Services said it was self-serving for doctors and hospitals to play up privacy concerns.CreditDepartment of Health and Human Services

BEIJING — The Chinese technology giant Huawei said on Tuesday, without providing evidence, that the United States government had pressured the company’s employees to turn against it and had used cyberattacks to infiltrate the firm’s computer systems in recent months. The company, which makes smartphones and equipment for telecommunications networks, has been the focus of

The Latest on Hurricane Dorian (all times local): 8:25 a.m. Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp said he ordered evacuations along the length of his state’s coast, which includes several low-lying islands, because if there is flooding on causeways, they won’t be able to get vehicles on or off the islands. Kemp told Fox News Channel’s “Fox

COPENHAGEN — Casper Klynge, a career diplomat from Denmark, has worked in some of the world’s most turbulent places. He once spent 18 months embroiled in reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan. For two years, he led a crisis management mission in Kosovo. Yet Mr. Klynge, 46, says his toughest foreign posting may be the one he

The Latest on Hurricane Dorian (all times local): 2:00 a.m. Dorian has weakened to a Category 3 hurricane but continues to batter the Bahamas as it remains almost at a standstill. At 2:00 a.m. EDT Tuesday, the ferocious storm’s center was about 30 miles (48 kilometers) northeast of Freeport Grand Bahama Island. It has barely

Hurricane Dorian came to a catastrophic daylong halt over the northwest Bahamas, flooding the islands of Abaco and Grand Bahama with walls of water that lapped into the second floors of buildings, trapped people in attics and drowned the Grand Bahama airport under 6 feet of water. At least five people died and 21 injured

Dr. Donald A.B. Lindberg, who as director of the National Library of Medicine — the world’s largest — computerized its vast holdings and made them accessible to researchers around the world, died on Aug. 17 at a hospital in Bethesda, Md. He was 85. His wife, Mary, said the cause was a cerebral hemorrhage sustained

The landing module of India’s unmanned moon mission separated from the orbiter on Monday ahead of its planned touchdown on the moon’s south polar region this weekend, the space agency said. Interested in Space? Add Space as an interest to stay up to date on the latest Space news, video, and analysis from ABC News.