Andrew Blake

Normal Lear, TV icon, plans to skip White House ceremony for Kennedy Center Honors recipients

Television icon Norman Lear, the writer and producer of classic sitcoms including "All in the Family" and "Sanford and Sons," said he won't attend a White House reception when he's honored at the Kennedy Center later this year, citing his disapproval of President Trump and his administration's policies.

August 5, 2017

Unaired ‘Game of Thrones’ episode leaked online after distribution company suffers data breach

An unaired episode of HBO's hit series "Game of Thrones" leaked online Friday morning as the network reels back from a recently disclosed data breach.

August 4, 2017

Republicans quietly sent to London in search of Christopher Steele, Trump dossier author: Report

The House Intelligence Committee investigating the Russian government's role in last year's White House race secretly dispatched two Republican staffers to London this summer to locate Christopher Steele, the former British intelligence operative attributed with compiling a controversial and largely unverified dossier detailing President Trump's alleged ties to Russia, Politico reported Friday.

August 4, 2017

Mark Warner, Senate Intel vice chairman, calls for investigating leaked Trump phone call transcripts

Congress should investigate how transcripts of phone calls involving President Trump and his Australian and Mexican counterparts were leaked to the press, the Senate Intelligence Committee's top Democrat said Thursday.

August 4, 2017

Army issues ban on DJI, Chinese drone maker, over cyber risks

The Pentagon has ordered an Army-wide ban on drones made by Chinese manufacturer DJI due to unspecified "cyber vulnerabilities."

August 4, 2017

Cannabis company plans to transform California town into marijuana-friendly tourist stop

American Green, a publicly traded cannabis company, said it's bought an entire town in southern California so it can build what it hopes to become the country's premier marijuana-friendly, self-sustaining tourist destination.

August 4, 2017

Sean Hannity declares himself Fox News’ strongest Trump supporter

Sean Hannity has cast his Fox News colleagues aside and declared himself as the cable network's strongest supporter of President Trump.

August 4, 2017

Federal cyber assistance sought by dozens of states, local election offices during 2016 race: DHS

A total of 33 states and 36 local governments asked the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to assess their election systems for vulnerabilities during last year's White House race, and a handful of others have requested federal assistance in the months since President Trump entered office, according to a newly released document.

August 3, 2017

Marcus Hutchins, researcher credited with thwarting Wannacry virus, arrested on hacking charges

A 23-year-old British security researcher hailed as a hero for singlehandedly stopping the unprecedented WannaCry ransomware worm from spreading further after infecting millions of computers systems in May has been arrested in Nevada on hacking charges and taken into U.S. federal custody.

August 3, 2017

Terrence McNeil, Islamic State supporter, sentenced to 20 years for reblogging ‘kill list’

An Ohio man convicted of sharing a "kill list" on social media containing the names and addresses of 100 U.S. service members has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison.

August 3, 2017

Maine lawmakers move to hike smoking age from 18 to 21, overriding governor

Maine will become the fourth state in the country to ban tobacco sales to individuals under 21 after state lawmakers voted Wednesday to override the Republican governor's veto of a bill meant to curb smoking-related deaths.

August 3, 2017

Thousands of internal HBO files stolen in security breach, filing reveals

Thousands of internal HBO documents have been leaked online, an anti-piracy company hired by the cable network said Tuesday, raising questions concerning the size and scope of a recently disclosed security breach.

August 3, 2017

Al Gore says Donald Trump’s White House is rife with dysfunction

Al Gore described the current state of affairs inside President Trump's White House as "deeply troubling" and riddled with distractions in a new interview aired Wednesday evening.

August 3, 2017

Senators seek cybersecurity standards for federal ‘Internet-of-Things’ devices

A bipartisan group of senators are calling on Congress to adopt security standards for for internet-connected devices bought by the government in a bid to further secure the nation's computer systems from cyberattacks.

August 2, 2017

Hillary Clinton campaign targeted by North Korean hackers prior to Podesta breach: Report

North Korean hackers targeted individuals associated with Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign weeks before Russian actors successfully breached its chairman's email account, according to a new report.

August 2, 2017

William McFarland, Fyre Festival promoter, seeking plea deal in federal wire fraud case: Report

Federal prosecutors may accept a plea deal from William McFarland, the organizer of the infamously disastrous Fyre Festival who was recently arrested on a related count of wire fraud, Bloomberg reported Wednesday.

August 2, 2017

Cory Booker’s bill seeks to remove marijuana from controlled substance list, expunge convictions

Sen. Cory Booker, New Jersey Democrat, introduced a bill Tuesday that would remove marijuana from the country's list of federally controlled substances and retroactively expunge prior cannabis convictions.

August 2, 2017

Jared Kushner lists 77 previously undisclosed assets worth $10 million in latest financial filing

President Trump's son-in-law, senior White House advisor Jared Kushner, "inadvertently omitted" more than $10 million worth of assets on prior financial disclosure filings, his legal team said Friday.

July 22, 2017

Anthony Scaramucci, Trump’s new communications director, deletes old tweets to avoid ‘distraction’

Anthony Scaramucci, President Trump's newly appointed communications director, has begun purging his Twitter account of old tweets that don't jive with the administration's agenda.

July 22, 2017

Jim Vance, legendary D.C. news anchor, dies at 75

Longtime NBC Washington news anchor Jim Vance has died at the age of 75.

July 22, 2017