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Charlottesville sued for refusing another ‘Unite the Right’ rally

Jason Kessler, the white nationalist activist who organized the the infamous "Unite the Right" protest last August in Charlottesville, Virginia, has sued the city for refusing to let him hold a rally on the event's first anniversary.

March 7, 2018

Fundraiser for Las Vegas shooting victims starts divvying up $31.4 million among survivors, families

A fundraiser established following the mass shooting at the Route 91 Harvest musical festival in Las Vegas last fall has received nearly $31.5 million in donations slated for the families of victims killed and several hundred survivors.

March 7, 2018

Rhode Island weighs ‘digital access fee’ for internet porn

Legislation offered by Rhode Island lawmakers would require internet service providers to block customers from accessing online pornography until after they've paid a one-time fee.

March 7, 2018

Pennsylvania sues Uber over delayed data breach notification

Pennsylvania's attorney general sued Uber on Monday for allegedly violating the state's data breach notification law by waiting more than a year to disclose an incident that compromised the personal information of 57 million users.

March 6, 2018

Florida lawmakers ban ‘free speech zones’ on college campuses

Florida lawmakers have passed a bill that eliminates "free speech zones" at public universities and allows schools to be sued for restricting campus protests.

March 6, 2018

Russian trolls ‘duped’ U.S. activists implicated in Mueller probe, organizer admits

A political activist who participated in an anti-Trump rally allegedly orchestrated by Russian operatives admits he was fooled by professional internet trolls accused of conducting interference operations against the United States.

March 6, 2018

Alex Jones hit with copyright suit by ‘Pepe the Frog’ creator over MAGA poster

The artist who created the "Pepe the Frog" cartoon character has sued far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones for copyright infringement over a poster sold through the latter's Infowars website.

March 6, 2018

Rideshare drivers mostly earning less than minimum wage: MIT report

Motorists making some extra cash by hauling around Uber or Lyft customers are mostly earning less than minimum wage, and nearly a third of ride-hailing drivers are losing money behind the wheel, according to researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

March 3, 2018

Marion Barry, D.C. ‘Mayor for Life,’ memorialized with statue

A bronze, larger-than-life statue of late D.C. politician Marion Barry was unveiled Saturday on Pennsylvania Avenue, memorializing the controversial so-called "Mayor for Life" mere blocks from the White House outside the city building where he worked during his decades in public office.

March 3, 2018

Anthony Scaramucci on White House ‘exclusion list’: Report

Anthony Scaramucci is among a roster of former Trump staffers barred from entering the White House without special approval, an administration official conceded Friday.

March 3, 2018

Man who shot himself outside White House has died: Secret Service

A man is dead after he shot himself in the head with a handgun Saturday outside of the White House, according to the Secret Service.

March 3, 2018

Central Michigan University student used father’s gun in double homicide: Police

James Eric Davis Jr., a 19-year-old Central Michigan University student suspected of killing his parents inside an on-campus residence hall Friday, allegedly used a gun registered to his father, a police officer and an Iraq War veteran.

March 3, 2018

Vasken Gourdikian, Pasadena police officer, illegally sold over 100 guns: DOJ

Vasken Gourdikian, a lieutenant in the Pasadena Police Department who formerly served as its official spokesman, risks spending decades in federal prison if convicted on federal firearms charges announced Friday.

March 3, 2018

Germany downplays ‘acute’ cyberattack amid concerns of Russian meddling

Germany's interior ministry has downplayed a cyberattack that reportedly resulted in sensitive information being stolen from a government computer network.

March 2, 2018

Robert Mueller readying charges against Russian hackers over DNC, Podesta breaches: Report

Special counsel Robert Mueller is building a criminal case against Russians accused of hacking U.S. targets during the 2016 U.S. presidential race and leaking stolen information damaging to Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, NBC News reported Thursday.

March 2, 2018

Facebook’s fact-checkers flag satire as fake news

Facebook on Friday said it mistakenly threatened to demonetize a satirical website's social networking account after one of its articles, "CNN Purchases Industrial-Sized Washing Machine To Spin News Before Publication," was debunked by Snopes, the fact-checking site used to help counter the platform's fake news problem.

March 2, 2018

Paul Nakasone, Donald Trump’s nominee for NSA director, warns foreign hackers don’t fear retaliation

President Trump's pick for National Security Agency director warned lawmakers Thursday that the government's lackluster response to alleged Russian election meddling has failed to deter foreign hackers from attacking U.S. targets.

March 2, 2018

Michael Kadar, 19, charged with federal hate crimes over threats against Jewish centers

The Department of Justice has announced federal hate crime charges against Michael Kadar, a dual American-Israeli citizen accused of making thousands of threatening calls to Jewish centers across the U.S. in early 2017 and stoking fear amid a wave of anti-Semitic incidents throughout the country.

March 1, 2018

Bill Gates: Cryptocurrency has ‘caused deaths in a fairly direct way’

Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates blasted cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin in an online question-and-answer session this week, taking fault with its ability to facilitate the anonymous buying and selling of deadly drugs including fentanyl, the synthetic opioid responsible for a rash of fatal overdoses.

March 1, 2018

Los Angeles quintuples size of marijuana regulation office two months into legal weed sales

The City Council of Los Angeles has unanimously voted to add 21 new positions to the city's infant Department of Cannabis Regulation, quintupling the size of its current workforce after its director recently complained of being severely understaffed.

March 1, 2018