Andrew Blake

Katie Arrington, GOP congressional candidate, seriously injured in deadly car wreck

Republican South Carolina state Rep. Katie Arrington, a U.S. House of Representatives candidate recently endorsed by President Trump, was seriously injured in fatal car wreck, her campaign said Saturday.

June 23, 2018

Massachusetts grants state’s first recreational marijuana license

Massachusetts awarded the state's first recreational marijuana license Thursday in anticipation of retail dispensaries opening as soon as next month.

June 22, 2018

NYPD sued over access to Trump family gun records

The New York Police Department was sued Thursday for refusing to disclose the handgun license applications submitted by President Trump and his two adult songs, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump.

June 22, 2018

Judge orders Paul Manafort jailed away from other inmates

Paul Manafort, the former chairman of President Trump's 2016 election campaign, should be segregated from other inmates while awaiting trial for charges brought as part of special counsel Robert Mueller's probe of the race, a D.C. federal court judge ruled Thursday.

June 22, 2018

WikiLeaks launches searchable database of ICE employees

WikiLeaks waded into the debate surrounding President Trump's border policies Thursday by launching a searchable database containing information scraped from the LinkedIn profiles of thousands of people allegedly affiliated with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

June 22, 2018

Reality Winner enters plea agreement in NSA leak case

Reality Winner, a U.S. Air Force veteran accused of leaking classified information about Russian cyberattacks waged during the 2016 White House race, entered a plea agreement Thursday in federal court.

June 22, 2018

Mueller seeks questionnaire in Manafort case for identifying bias among potential jurors

Special counsel Robert Mueller on Thursday proposed using a 20-page questionnaire to whittle down the jury pool in the government's case against Paul Manafort, President Trump's former election campaign chairman.

June 21, 2018

China ‘adapting and improving’ on tactics deployed by Russia during 2016 race: Victoria Nuland

China has borrowed parts of the interference campaign waged against the 2016 U.S. presidential race and has begun deploying Russian-inspired operations abroad, a longtime U.S. diplomat warned Wednesday.

June 21, 2018

Russian hackers likely scanned election systems in all 50 states during 2016 race: Obama cyber czar

Russian hackers likely probed election systems in all 50 states during to the 2016 U.S. presidential race, the Obama administration's former cyber czar said Wednesday -- more the double the number previously given by the Department of Homeland Security.

June 21, 2018

NPS weighing ‘white civil rights rally’ proposed outside White House by ‘Unite the Right’ organizer

The National Park Service is in the process of deciding whether to permit a "white civil rights rally" proposed to happened mere steps from the White House this summer.

June 20, 2018

Tesla sues Martin Tripp, former employee, over alleged data theft

Tesla sued a former employee Wednesday for allegedly hacking into the electric car maker's computer system and stealing several gigabytes worth of confidential trade secrets.

June 20, 2018

WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange repeatedly met with Adam Waldman, Russian-linked lobbyist: Report

WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange was visited nine times last year by an American lobbyist for Oleg Deripaska, a Russian oligarch closely tied to President Vladimir Putin, The Guardian reported Wednesday.

June 20, 2018

Microsoft employees protest ICE contracts amid migrant crisis

Scores of Microsoft employees have signed a letter urging the tech titan's chief executive to completely cut ties with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement over the Trump administration's policy of separating migrant families at the Mexican border.

June 20, 2018

Theodore McCarrick, former D.C. archbishop, removed from ministry over ‘credible’ sex abuse claim

Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, the archbishop emeritus of Washington, D.C., has been removed from public ministry for allegedly sexually abusing a teenager nearly 50 years ago when he was a priest in the Archdiocese of New York.

June 20, 2018

Joshua Schulte, former CIA employee, charged with giving government secrets to WikiLeaks

Joshua Schulte, a former CIA employee accused of supplying the WikiLeaks website with a trove of classified intelligence revealing the agency's hacking capabilities, was indicted on related counts Monday nearly 10 months since first being taken into custody.

June 19, 2018

Pot smokers in NYC to get court summons, not arrest, Mayor de Blasio announces

Police officers in New York City will soon issue summonses instead of arresting most people caught smoking marijuana in public, Mayor Bill de Blasio and Police Commissioner James O'Neill said Tuesday.

June 19, 2018

Spenser Rapone, ‘Commie Cadet’ West Post grad, officially out of U.S. Army: Report

Spenser Rapone, the so-called "Commie Cadet" who caused an uproar over photographs taken during his graduation from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, has officially parted ways with the U.S. Army, The Associated Press reported Tuesday.

June 19, 2018

James Clapper questions Trump’s knowledge of Russian meetings

Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper questioned Monday whether President Trump knew at the time that Russians were meeting with members of his 2016 election campaign.

June 19, 2018

Stephanie Jass, former ‘Jeopardy!’ champ, pleads guilty to felony computer hacking

Stephanie Jass, a former Adrian College professor who set the record in 2012 for the most consecutive wins by a female "Jeopardy!" contestant, had entered a guilty plea in connection with hacking into the email accounts of several of the school's administrators, faculty members and students.

June 16, 2018

Taxi cab plows into crowd in Moscow

A taxi cab drove into a crowd of pedestrians Saturday near Red Square in Moscow, Russia, two days into the nation's tenure hosting the 2018 World Cup.

June 16, 2018