Andrew Blake

Stormfront, internet’s longest-running white supremacist site, goes offline

Stormfront, one of the internet's oldest and most popular white supremacist sites, has been booted off its web address of more than two decades amid a crackdown against hate sites.

August 26, 2017

Florida lawmaker proposes ditching Confederate holidays

The latest bill filed in the Florida legislature would eliminate three Confederate holidays from the state calendar if signed into law.

August 26, 2017

At least one dead in Texas so far from Hurricane Harvey: Report

At least one person has died so far as a result of Hurricane Harvey, CNN reported Saturday afternoon.

August 26, 2017

Appeals court rejects ‘worthless’ Subway foot-long settlement between sandwich chain and customers

A federal appeals court has rejected a class-action settlement between the Subway sandwich chain and customers who sued over the size of the company's "Footlong" subs.

August 26, 2017

Ireland’s sole Confederate monument at risk of removal amid U.S. uproar

A local lawmaker in Galway County, Ireland is lobbying for the removal of a monument honoring a native son who fought for the Confederacy as similar tributes continue to come down across the pond in the old South and beyond.

August 26, 2017

Donald Trump’s ban on transgender recruits is ‘about normalizing hate,’ says Chelsea Manning

Chelsea Manning, the U.S. military's most famous former transgender service member, accused President Trump of "normalizing hate" by issuing a directive banning trans recruits.

August 26, 2017

Arizona senators McCain and Flake irked by Trump’s pardon of former sheriff Arpaio

Neither of Arizona's two U.S. senators -- Republicans Jeff Flake and John McCain -- endorsed President Trump's pardon Friday evening of former Maricopa County sheriff Joe Arpaio.

August 26, 2017

Chelsea Clinton spars with InfoWars’ Alex Jones over Michelle Obama claim

A social media row has erupted between Chelsea Clinton and InfoWars founder and right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones after the former first daughter unloaded against him for suggesting Michelle Obama is biologically male.

August 25, 2017

Yu Pingan, Chinese national, arrested on charges linked to OPM, Anthem hacks

The FBI has arrested a Chinese national on charges involving the malware used to hack the U.S. Office of Personnel Management in 2014 and steal personal information pertaining to millions of federal government employees and contractors.

August 25, 2017

Congress didn’t grasp importance of Russian election hack, CIA chief warned colleagues, memo shows

The head of the CIA during last year's White House race warned his colleagues afterwards that certain members of Congress failed to grasp the seriousness of Russia's involvement in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, according to a newly released document.

August 25, 2017

Daily Stormer relocates to dark web after latest ban as publisher claims ‘performance art’

The publisher of popular neo-Nazi website banned by the internet's biggest companies said he's relegating his site to the dark web, an unindexed and difficult to censor portion of the internet, after a controversial article he wrote about a woman killed protesting a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, spurred cyberattacks and ignited a free speech debate offline and on.

August 25, 2017

Wisconsin funeral company secures alcohol license ahead of opening massive new facility

A Wisconsin couple intends to put the "fun" in "funeral" by legally serving alcohol inside a new Milwaukee area funeral home and event complex currently slated to open early next year.

August 24, 2017

DreamHost, web hosting company, blames powerful DDoS attack for online outages

DreamHost, one of the world's largest web hosting companies, said a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) caused significant outages Thursday affecting customers of its web and email services.

August 24, 2017

Republican group parts ways with Jason Kessler, far-right organizer of Charlottesville rally

Jason Kessler, the white nationalist blogger who organized the deadly "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, this month, has been ejected from a local Republican grassroots organization, according to its chairman.

August 24, 2017

New York lawmakers urge Tillerson to deport Jakiw Palij, former Nazi prison guard living in Queens

Twenty-one bipartisan members of New York state's congressional delegation have signed their names to a letter urging Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to once and for all deport Jakiw Palij, a 92-year-old Queens resident who was stripped of his U.S. citizenship over a decade ago for his involvement in the Holocaust.

August 24, 2017

Congressmen push Jeff Sessions on stalled medical marijuana research

A bipartisan group of congressmen have asked Attorney General Jeff Sessions to explain why the Justice Department is dragging its feet more than a year after promising to eliminate barriers preventing researchers from studying marijuana's potential medical benefits.

August 24, 2017

Karim Baratov, Canadian charged in connection with Yahoo hack, pleads not guilty in U.S. court

A Canadian man charged with aiding Russian hackers accused of breaching a half-billion Yahoo accounts in 2014 has pleaded not guilty before a U.S. judge upon being extradited stateside this week five months after being arrested near Hamilton, Ontario.

August 24, 2017

Penn State rejects Richard Spencer, white nationalist, over safety concerns after Charlottesville

Penn State has denied white nationalist Richard Spencer permission to speak on campus this fall over security concerns raised in the wake of this month's violent far-right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.

August 23, 2017

John McCain calls Trump ‘weak’ on cybersecurity after White House blows 90-day deadline

President Trump isn't doing any better than his predecessor in terms of outlining a plan for safeguarding the nation from cyberattack, Sen. John McCain said Wednesday.

August 23, 2017

Richard Spencer, alt-right figure: ‘Trump has never denounced the Alt-Right. Nor will he’

President Trump shows no sign of abandoning his alt-right support base, according to Richard Spencer, the white nationalist attributed with coining the term and one of the racist ideology's leading voices.

August 23, 2017