Andrew Blake

C-section births linked to greater risk of obesity: Report

Researchers at Harvard this week announced a possible link between cesarean section births and obesity that raises new questions for expectant parents to ask about potential long-term health risks.

September 6, 2016

School bus driver fired after exchange with Spanish-speaking student: Speak in English

A Jerome, Idaho school bus driver has lost her job after being caught on camera pouring water on a passenger and chastising the student for speaking Spanish.

September 6, 2016

Chicago cracks 500 homicides for the year after violent holiday weekend

Chicago saw its 500th homicide of the year over the Labor Day weekend as the country's third-largest city approaches a death toll not seen in decades.

September 6, 2016

Freddie Mercury, the late Queen singer, gets asteroid named after him to commemorate his birthday

Legendary vocalist Freddie Mercury was honored Monday on what would have been the Queen singer's 70th birthday with a truly out-of-this-world tribute: a 2-mile-long asteroid currently orbiting around the sun at a speed of nearly 50,000 miles-per-hour.

September 6, 2016

Montel Williams threatens to sue Pat McCrory, N.C. governor, over campaign ad

Montel Williams is threatening legal action against North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory after the Republican incumbent's re-election bid used an excerpt from a television interview with the former talk show host in a campaign ad released this week.

September 3, 2016

Ben Carson briefly disrupts CNN interview after remembering his luggage

Dr. Ben Carson took a moment away from stumping for Donald Trump in Detroit on Saturday to do a live on-air interview on CNN -- then took another moment to look for his luggage as the cable network's cameras continued to roll.

September 3, 2016

Wholesale pot prices hit new low as legal weed market sees surge in supply

Wholesale marijuana prices are at nearly half the cost of less than 12 months earlier as experts point to a surge in supply occurring in states where residents can legally grow weed.

September 3, 2016

Airbnb publishes first transparency report; only 172 out of 31 million travelers affected

Airbnb released details for the first time in its 8-year history this week about how the travel service responds to law enforcement requests for user data as the San Francisco-based start-up vows to begin being more transparent.

September 3, 2016

Police union threatens to stop working 49ers games over Kaepernick’s remarks on cops

Police officers who provide security at San Francisco 49ers home games told the team's CEO on Friday that they may stop coming to work on account of quarterback Colin Kaepernick's recent remarks and actions about law enforcement.

September 3, 2016

Hillary Clinton’s email archives lost in the mail during back-up: FBI

Two archives containing Hillary Clinton's emails from her tenure as secretary of state were misplaced shortly after it was revealed that the Democratic presidential nominee used a personal account for official government business, according to notes from the FBI's investigation into the matter.

September 3, 2016

Saturday’s Oklahoma earthquake ties record for state’s strongest

An earthquake felt in five states Saturday morning is one of the strongest on record for Oklahoma, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

September 3, 2016

Jill Stein speech delayed after Green candidate takes wrong flight to Cincinnati instead of Columbus

A noontime campaign event in Ohio went awry Friday for White House hopeful Jill Stein when the Green Party's candidate for president mistakenly took a flight to Cincinnati instead of Columbus, organizers said.

September 2, 2016

Russia waging daily cyberattacks because of Olympic ban: World Doping Agency director

The director of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) on Thursday said the organization has been subjected to daily cyberattacks in the weeks since its investigators accused Russian athletes of using performance-enhancing drugs ahead of last month's Olympic games in Rio de Janeiro.

September 2, 2016

Philadelphia police open probe over cop’s tattoo after Nazi accusations

The Philadelphia Police Department has launched an internal review after a photograph of one its officers with a tattoo resembling a Nazi symbol began circulating online this week.

September 2, 2016

Vladimir Putin denies Russia role in DNC breach, asks: ‘Does it even matter who hacked this data?’

Russian President Vladimir Putin personally denied his government played any part in the recent U.S. Democratic National Committee hack during an interview published Friday, while dismissing what he described as attempts to distract the public from the information contained in the thousands of DNC emails that were subsequently leaked online.

September 2, 2016

Hillary Clinton: U.S. will treat cyberattacks ‘just like any other attack’

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton on Wednesday said as commander in chief the U.S. will deploy its military to respond to cyberattacks waged against its interests.

September 1, 2016

College professor launches hunger strike after president vetoes tenure bid

Juan Rojo, a Spanish professor at Lafayette College in Pennsylvania, began a hunger strike this week after his latest and final bid for tenure was rejected by the school.

September 1, 2016

Marcel Lazar, ‘Guccifer’ hacker, sentenced to 52 months in federal prison

A federal judge Thursday sentenced Marcel Lazar, better known as the hacker "Guccifer," to 52 months in prison for a cybercrime spree that claimed more than 100 victims, including a confidant of democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and a member of the Bush family.

September 1, 2016

Edward Majerczyk, ‘Celebgate’ hacker, could face 9-month prison sentence: prosecutors

Federal prosecutors are seeking a 9-month prison sentence for a Chicago man who admitted hacking the personal internet accounts of dozens of celebrities in 2014, the city's Tribune newspaper reported Wednesday.

September 1, 2016

Woman sets self on fire in Chicago office of Rep. Danny Davis

The Chicago office of Rep. Danny K. Davis, Illinois Democrat, was the scene of an apparent suicide attempt Tuesday afternoon when a 43-year-old woman set herself on fire in front of staffers.

September 1, 2016