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Adam West, actor and ‘Batman’ star from 1960s TV series, dies at 88

Adam West, the actor who portrayed Batman and the superhero's alter ego, Bruce Wayne, on television and movies screens in the 1960s, passed away Friday following a short battle with leukemia, a family spokesperson said. He was 88.

June 10, 2017

Adam Purinton, shooting suspect, charged with federal hate crimes over deadly Kansas bar rampage

The Justice Department brought federal hate crime charges Friday against Adam Purinton, a white man accused of opening fire inside a suburban Kansas City bar earlier this year after leveling ethnic slurs at two Indian nationals.

June 10, 2017

Bill Maher offers on-air apology after using N-word during HBO broadcast; defends Kathy Griffin

Late-night host Bill Maher apologized on-air Friday for using a racial slur during last week's live episode of his weekly HBO program. But he also took the opportunity to defend fellow comic Kathy Griffin, who was fired from CNN for a photograph in which held an object made up to look like the decapitated head of President Trump.

June 10, 2017

Karim Baratov, hacking suspect wanted in relation to Yahoo breach, denied bail by Canadian judge

A Canadian judge on Friday refused to grant bail to Karim Baratov, an Ontario resident wanted by the U.S. Justice Department for hacking accusations involving an alleged international cybercrime ring connected to a colossal 2014 data breach affecting a half-billion Yahoo accounts.

June 9, 2017

Russia threatens retaliation against U.S. over seized diplomatic compounds

Russia will retaliate against the U.S. unless Washington returns property seized by the Obama administration and reinstates their diplomatic immunity status, Moscow warned Friday.

June 9, 2017

Chelsea Manning says WikiLeaks disclosures weren’t solicited; ‘No one told me to do this’

Army Private Chelsea Manning said in an interview televised Friday that she acted independently in deciding to leak hundreds of thousands of classified U.S. military and diplomatic documents to WikiLeaks in 2010, effectively rebutting the government's assertion she was solicited to steal and disclose state secrets by the website's publisher, Julian Assange.

June 9, 2017

Retail marijuana regulations proposed for Los Angeles

Los Angeles city officials proposed guidelines for regulating marijuana businesses and recreational weed sales Thursday in anticipation of cannabis becoming legal across California in 2018.

June 9, 2017

Amy Klobuchar requests H.R. McMaster, Trump security adviser, brief her on Russian hacking

Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Minnesota Democrat, requested a classified briefing Tuesday from President Trump's national security adviser after a new report revealed that Russian hackers targeted U.S. voting systems on the eve of last year's election.

June 6, 2017

Reality Winner, suspected NSA leaker, ‘must be supported’: WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange

WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange rushed to defend Reality Winner, a 25-year-old government contractor arrested over the weekend for allegedly leaking top-secret National Security Agency documents to an online media outlet.

June 6, 2017

Reality Winner, suspected NSA leaker; printer watermark likely helped identify contractor: Report

A nearly invisible but unique watermark may have helped U.S. investigators identify the contractor accused of leaking a top secret NSA document published by The Intercept on Monday, according to security experts.

June 6, 2017

Police officers treat motorists differently on account of race, regardless of their own: Study

Police officers speak more respectfully to white motorists during routine traffic stops than black motorists, Stanford researchers wrote in a new, first-of-its-kind study published Monday.

June 6, 2017

NYPD can be sued for using sound cannon during protest: Court

A federal judge is requiring the New York Police Department to face assault charges for using a potentially deafening sound cannon during a 2014 protest.

June 3, 2017

Jessica Aguilar, anti-Trump protester, charged with battery over alleged MAGA rally assaults: Police

A California woman was charged with two counts of misdemeanor battery Thursday for allegedly assaulting two people during a "Make America Great Again" rally earlier this year held in support of President Trump, the Orange County District Attorney's office said Friday.

June 3, 2017

CNN article names Ivanka Trump ‘America’s most powerful Jewish woman’

First daughter Ivanka Trump was named "America's most powerful Jewish woman" in an article published by CNN on Friday, but the subsequent reaction suggests the opinion is hardly widely held.

June 3, 2017

Eleanor Holmes Norton requests probe over bogus immigration warnings

Eleanor Holmes Norton, the congressional delegate for Washington, D.C., asked the FBI on Friday to investigate the appearance of bogus U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) leaflets within the nation's capital this week warning residents against harboring "illegal aliens."

June 3, 2017

George Tschaggeny, robbery suspect, charged with stealing Portland stabbing victim’s wedding ring

Portland police arrested a man Friday accused of robbing Ricky Best, a victim of last week's light-rail stabbing rampage, as he died aboard a Metropolitan Area Express (MAX) commuter train.

June 3, 2017

Bill Maher, under fire for using N-word during HBO broadcast, apologizes

Comedian Bill Maher went from the hosting seat to the hot seat after using a racial epithet during Friday night's episode of of his weekly HBO program, "Real Time with Bill Maher." He has since apologized, after having provoked a firestorm of controversy and a statement of disavowal from a network executive.

June 3, 2017

Emmanuel Macron hack lacks Russian fingerprints despite earlier claims, France says

Whoever hacked French President Emmanuel Macron's campaign ahead of last month's election left no clues leading back to Russia, the head of France's computer security agency said Thursday, casting doubts on earlier claims of Kremlin involvement.

June 2, 2017

Roger Stone, former Donald Trump adviser, lands Infowars gig with Alex Jones

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is expanding his far-right media empire and has given President Trump's former campaign adviser a part in the process.

June 2, 2017

New vetting measure seeks social media names and email addresses from visa applicants

The State Department has implemented a new vetting process requiring certain visa applicants to give the government a list of their email addresses and social media handles, much to the chagrin of immigration attorneys and free-speech advocates.

June 2, 2017