Andrew Blake

Senate bill would label WikiLeaks ‘non-state hostile intelligence service’

Congress will formally consider WikiLeaks a "non-state hostile intelligence service" if lawmakers adopt the annual Intelligence Authorization Act passed 14-1 by a Senate panel last month -- a provision the bill's sole dissenter now cites as his reason for rejecting it.

August 23, 2017

DOJ narrows request for information on anti-Trump website visitors

The Department of Justice has walked back its request for information on every single person who visited disruptj20.org, an anti-Trump website that organized and advertised protests prior to the president's Jan. 20 swearing-in ceremony.

August 23, 2017

Jason Kessler, Charlottesville rally organizer, cleared of earlier disorderly conduct charge

A judge in Charlottesville, Virginia, has dismissed a disorderly conduct charge against Jason Kessler, the local blogger and white nationalist who organized the deadly "Unite the Right" protest held earlier this month over the city's decision to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.

August 22, 2017

Eleanor Rigby’s grave rights and Bible being sold at Beatles auction

Eleanor Rigby was "buried along with her name," according to The Beatles song, but not her Bible -- it's being auctioned in London next month along with the deed to to her grave in Woolton, a suburb of Liverpool.

August 22, 2017

Tiger Woods, Lindsey Vonn, threaten lawsuits after nude photos surface on Celeb Jihad website

Tiger Woods and his ex-girlfriend, Olympic gold medalist skier Lindsey Vonn, are both reportedly threatening legal action against an X-rated website for publishing their nude photographs alongside explicit images of other celebrities including Miley Cyrus and Kristen Stewart.

August 22, 2017

Navy considering ‘cyber intrusions or sabotage’ while probing USS McCain, Fitzgerald crashes

An investigation launched by the Navy following Monday's collision of the USS John S. McCain will examine whether hackers had a hand in causing either of a couple of recent crashes involving U.S. warships, the chief of Naval operations said afterwards.

August 22, 2017

Seattle Police rib Alex Jones on social media after viral coffee video

Seattle's police department poked fun at conspiracy theorist Alex Jones from its Twitter account Friday after the "InfoWars" host made a literal splash roaming Seattle during a live internet broadcast.

August 19, 2017

Monument to ‘unknown Confederate soldiers’ being built in Alabama

A Confederate memorial is slated to be erected this month near Montgomery, Alabama, notwithstanding mounting efforts to dismantle similar monuments across the country.

August 19, 2017

Six Flags ditches Confederate flag from amusement parks in Georgia and Texas

Recent uproar over the Confederate flag has caused the world's largest amusement park company to remove the emblem from its Deep South locations.

August 19, 2017

Donald Trump OKs memorial commemorating War on Terrorism

President Trump has signed a bill authorizing the construction of a new memorial on the National Mall commemorating U.S. service members who fought in the international war against terrorism.

August 19, 2017

Jason Kessler, ‘Unite the Right’ organizer, calls slain protester’s death ‘payback time’

The Twitter account of Jason Kessler, the alt-right activist and organizer of last weekend's deadly "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, tweeted that the woman who died protesting his event "was a fat, disgusting Communist" and that her death was "payback time" -- then walked back the remark and blamed it on drugs and alcohol.

August 19, 2017

Two police officers dead, 4 others wounded after shootings overnight in Florida and Pennsylvania

Six police officers were shot overnight during separate incidents in Florida and Pennsylvania.

August 19, 2017

The Daily Stormer, infamous neo-Nazi site, resurfaces at .lol address following Cloudflare ban

A white supremacist website refused to die Friday and resurfaced instead at a new domain safeguarded by a Seattle-based cyber protection firm.

August 18, 2017

Karim Baratov, Canadian man implicated in Yahoo hack, waives extradition hearing

Karim Baratov, a Canadian man implicated in the hack of hundreds of millions of Yahoo accounts, waived his right to an extradition hearing Friday and will surrender to U.S. authorities to face federal charges.

August 18, 2017

Charlie Daniels, country singer, compares Confederate statue critics to ISIS

People demanding the removal of Confederate monuments are acting in the same manner as Islamic State terrorists, country music singer Charlie Daniels said in a new interview in the wake of Saturday's tragedy in Charlottesville, Virginia.

August 18, 2017

Julian Assange tells Dana Rohrabacher: WikiLeaks wants White House press passes

WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange told Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, California Republican, that his antisecrecy website wants a regular seat in the White House press room, according to the congressman.

August 18, 2017

Dana Rohrabacher calls for ‘massive cyberattack’ against North Korea

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, the chairman of the House Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia and Emerging Threats, has called for conducting a "massive cyberattack" against North Korea to prevent Pyongyang from initiating nuclear war.

August 18, 2017

Rep. Rohrabacher and Julian Assange, WikiLeaks chief, detail London meeting

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, California Republican, said he plans to brief President Trump following a meeting at London's Ecuadorian Embassy with its most infamous resident, WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange.

August 17, 2017

Jack Posobiec, conspiracy theorist, is Navy Reserve officer with suspended clearance: Report

Jack Posobiec, a right-wing conspiracy theorist retweeted by President Trump this week, is also an Navy intelligence officer with a suspended security clearance, according to newly obtained service records and interviews with U.S. military members.

August 17, 2017

Russia boots Daily Stormer, neo-Nazi website, from .RU domain

The Daily Stormer is another step closer to being a white supremacist website without a home after getting the boot Thursday from Russian regulators.

August 17, 2017