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Apple warned repeatedly about FaceTime bug by mother of teen credited with finding flaw

Apple was repeatedly alerted about an eavesdropping bug involving its FaceTime video-chat feature more than a week before it became public Monday.

January 29, 2019

Edward Gallagher’s Navy SEAL colleagues granted immunity in murder case against him

Seven Navy SEALs have been granted immunity to testify against Edward R. Gallagher, a chief special warfare operator accused of murdering a wounded teenage combatant and then posing with the fighter's corpse.

January 29, 2019

Roger Stone posts cartoon of Robert Mueller flaunting Stalin tattoo prior to arraignment

Roger Stone prefaced his arraignment Tuesday in D.C. federal court by sharing a political cartoon on social media that showed special counsel Robert Mueller sporting a tattoo of late Soviet dictator Josef Stalin.

January 29, 2019

Donald Trump’s conservative media boosters diverge on shutdown deal

President Trump triggered a range of responses from his conservative media supporters Friday for abandoning his latest demand that Congress approve funding for a wall to be built on the Mexican border.

January 26, 2019

Electric scooter injuries scrutinized in first-of-its-kind medical study

Hundreds of people in southern California have been hospitalized due to injuries involving dockless standing electric scooters, researchers wrote in a first-of-its-kind study released Friday.

January 26, 2019

RNC unanimously pledges ‘undivided support’ for Trump, stops short of explicit 2020 endorsement

The Republican National Committee unanimously voted Friday to offer the GOP's "undivided support for President Donald J. Trump and his effective Presidency."

January 26, 2019

Bill Maher blasts Covington Catholic student Nick Sandmann over ‘smirk heard ‘round the world’

Bill Maher on Friday bashed the Catholic high school student at the center of a contentious confrontation at the Lincoln Memorial last week involving a group of teenage boys and a Native American activist.

January 26, 2019

WikiLeaks on Roger Stone indictment: New evidence of no ‘back channel’

WikiLeaks denied federal charges unsealed Friday against Roger Stone indicate a covert back channel existed between the antisecrecy group and President Trump's former election campaign adviser.

January 25, 2019

Roger Stone tells Infowars: ‘Twenty-nine FBI agents showed up at my home’

Roger Stone gave his first post-arrest interview Friday to Alex Jones, the right-wing media personality responsible for the controversial Infowars website.

January 25, 2019

John Podesta: It’s Roger Stone’s ‘time in the barrel’

Roger Stone's now infamous prediction involving John Podesta, a victim of the hacking campaign waged against Democrats during the 2016 presidential race, provided the latter with an apt response to the arrest of President Trump's former election campaign adviser Friday.

January 25, 2019

U.S. proposes arms control talks with Russia as Cold War-era weapons pact nears collapse

President Trump's senior arms control adviser told reporters Thursday that the U.S. has proposed holding discussions with Russia next week as a landmark bilateral weapons agreement between nuclear powers teeters on collapse.

January 24, 2019

Canadians tell pollsters of large neo-Nazi presence in U.S.

Nearly half of Canadians polled as part of a survey on Holocaust awareness said that they believe "a great deal" or "many" neo-Nazis live in the United States, results of the study revealed Thursday.

January 24, 2019

Marijuana regulators say customers spent $24 million at Mass. dispensaries during first two months

Marijuana dispensaries in Massachusetts generated nearly $24 million worth of sales within the first two months of the state becoming the latest to license and regulate retail pot, regulators said Tuesday.

January 24, 2019

The Daily Mail, British tabloid, rejects Microsoft app flagging outlet as unreliable

Microsoft has included a feature in its newest mobile web browser that cautions users against reading The Daily Mail, prompting pushback Wednesday from the British tabloid.

January 24, 2019

Steve King, embattled congressman, attracts ‘unwelcome’ support from The Daily Stormer

Rep. Steve King, Iowa Republican, has garnered the support of a website made infamous by publishing crude neo-Nazi and white nationalist commentary, complicating the embattled congressman's effort to overcome a related remark that caused him to be stripped of his House committee appointments.

January 23, 2019

Dems contact Twitter over account that boosted edited video of Lincoln Memorial encounter: Report

Democrats in the House and Senate are probing a suspicious Twitter account responsible for posting a viral video of the recent confrontation between a group of high school students wearing "Make America Great Again" hats and a Native American elder, Nathan Phillips, a report said Wednesday.

January 23, 2019

WikiLeaks: DOJ offering immunity in exchange for testimony against publisher Julian Assange

WikiLeaks said Wednesday that U.S. prosecutors have begun offering immunity in exchange for the testimony of individuals associated with the website's publication of classified U.S. military and diplomatic documents.

January 23, 2019

Jerome Corsi blames The Washington Post and Robert Mueller for lost Infowars job in lawsuit

Jerome Corsi, a conservative author and conspiracy theorist suing special counsel Robert Mueller, dragged The Washington Post, its publisher and a newspaper reporter into a $1.35 billion lawsuit late Monday.

January 22, 2019

Marijuana legalization supported by slim majority of U.S. mayors: Survey

A slight majority of the nation's mayors support legalizing and regulating marijuana sales in their cities, a study conducted by researchers at Boston University revealed Tuesday.

January 22, 2019

Marijuana firm backed by Boehner says CBS rejected proposed Super Bowl commercial

CBS has rejected a proposed Super Bowl commercial advertising medical marijuana, the company behind the ad said Tuesday.

January 22, 2019