Andrew Blake

Haskel Lookstein, Ivanka’s rabbi, ‘deeply troubled’ by Trump’s remarks about Charlottesville

The rabbi who oversaw Ivanka Trump's conversion to Judaism has taken aim at the president's comments concerning Saturday's far-right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.

August 17, 2017

Hacker who wrote code used in DNC breach cooperating with FBI: Report

A computer programmer who created malware used to hack the Democratic National Committee during the 2016 U.S. presidential race has become a cooperating witness in the FBI's investigation into the historic DNC breach, according to The New York Times.

August 16, 2017

Twitter and Cloudflare are latest to take aim at The Daily Stormer, neo-Nazi website

Twitter and Cloudflare have followed in the footsteps of fellow internet titans GoDaddy, Google and Facebook by taking action against the Daily Stormer, a white supremacist website that's been all but driven offline after mocking the woman killed while protesting a white nationalist rally this weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia.

August 16, 2017

Shaun Bridges, disgraced Secret Service agent, pleads guilty to second bitcoin heist

A former Secret Service agent currently serving time for stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of digital currency has pleaded guilty to new charges related to the theft of millions more.

August 16, 2017

Facebook boots far-right groups in post-Charlottesville hate speech crackdown

Facebook has purged the pages of several extremist organizations after a woman was killed Saturday while protesting a far-right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.

August 16, 2017

Daily Stormer, neo-Nazi website, faces GoDaddy, Google bans

A widely visited white supremacist website that boasts millions of monthly unique views has been all but driven offline after mocking the female demonstrator fatally mowed down during a counterprotest Saturday in Charlottesville, Virginia.

August 15, 2017

Texas A&M cancels ‘White Lives Matter’ rally in wake of Charlottesville violence

A "White Lives Matter" event scheduled for Texas A&M University next month has been canceled by the school after a similar "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville resulted in the death of one demonstrator and dozens of injuries this weekend.

August 15, 2017

Alex Jones blames Jewish actors for posing as KKK members after Charlottesville violence

Jewish actors pose as Ku Klux Klan members to sow chaos, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones claimed in the aftermath of Saturday's fatal clash in Charlottesville between far-right demonstrators and counterprotesters.

August 15, 2017

Feds demand records of everyone who visited anti-Trump protest website, DisruptJ20

The Trump administration has asked a California-based hosting provider to give the government information on anyone who visited disruptj20.org, a website that coordinated Election Day protests, prompting pushback over First Amendment concerns.

August 15, 2017

Alex Jones, conspiracy theorist behind Infowars, launches new website, NewsWars

Infowars publisher and far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has launched a new website in order to accomplish what he called bringing "truth back to the media."

August 12, 2017

Trump ending North Korea’s nuclear program is Nobel-worthy but ‘highly unlikely’: Fareed Zakaria

President Trump would be worthy of receiving a Nobel Peace Prize if he denuclearizes North Korea, according to CNN's Fareed Zakaria, but his recent bluffing has hardly helped reduce the regime's nuclear ambitions, he said during Friday's "Real Time with Bill Maher."

August 12, 2017

Trump addresses Charlottesville violence in tweets, signing ceremony

President Trump has weighed in after rallies turned violent Saturday in Charlottesville, Virginia.

August 12, 2017

Yashar Ali, HuffPost contributor sued by Fox News host for defamation, responds to lawsuit

Yashar Ali, the freelance writer who published an article last week containing allegations of sexual harassment concerning Fox News personality Eric Bolling, has fired back after being hit with a $50 million defamation suit upon spurring the host's suspension.

August 12, 2017

State of emergency declared in Charlottesville as protests turn violent

A state of emergency has been declared around Charlottesville, Virginia, amid clashes between "Unite the Right" demonstrators and counterprotesters.

August 12, 2017

Karim Baratov, Canadian man implicated in Yahoo hack, to surrender to U.S. authorities: Attorney

Karim Baratov, a Canadian man arrested in March and accused of aiding Russian hackers blamed with breaching hundreds of millions of Yahoo accounts in 2014, will forgo an upcoming extradition hearing so he can be tried by U.S. prosecutors, his attorney said Friday.

August 12, 2017

Virginia National Guard on standby ahead of opposing rallies Saturday in Charlottesville

The governor of Virginia has placed the National Guard on standby as Charlottesville braces for potentially violent protests Saturday over the city's planned removal of a statue honoring Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.

August 12, 2017

Jared Kushner fined by ethics watchdog over tardy financial filing

President Trump's senior advisor and son-in-law Jared Kushner has been fined by the government for failing to disclose recent financial transactions on time as required by federal law.

August 11, 2017

‘Guccifer’ hacker who exposed Clinton emails wishes to serve sentence in native Romania: Report

Marcel Lehel Lazar, the computer hacker known as "Guccifer" who first exposed Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server while secretary of state, said he'll fight against being extradited from his native Romania to the United States next year to serve the remainder of a 52-month prison sentence for hacking a handful of high-profile American politicos.

August 11, 2017

ACLU joins suit against Charlottesville over moving site of ‘Unite the Right’ rally Saturday

The organizer of a protest scheduled to take place in Charlottesville, Virginia, this Saturday over its decision to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from a downtown park has sued the city for relocating the site of his rally on the eve of the event.

August 11, 2017

Colorado marijuana sales up 25 percent year over year: Report

Marijuana sales in Colorado, the first state in the nation to legalize recreational weed, surpassed $750 million during the first half of 2017, up about 25 percent compared to the first six months of 2016.

August 11, 2017