Andrew Blake

FBI deploys explosives experts to Kiev after car bomb kills Ukrainian journalist

The FBI will send investigators to Ukraine's capital city after journalist Pavel Sheremet was killed Wednesday morning when a car bomb detonated in downtown Kiev.

July 20, 2016

Eddie Braun, stuntman, plans to attempt Evel Knievel’s failed Snake River Canyon jump

Late stuntman Evel Knievel suffered little more than a broken nose after he unsuccessfully attempted to cross Idaho's Snake River Canyon in a steam-powered rocket in 1974. Now one of the daredevil's biggest fans said he'll recreate the failed stunt more than four decades later, hopefully landing this time on the other side of the abyss.

July 20, 2016

Nevada delegate gets state capital wrong during Republican National Convention roll call

The chairman of the Nevada Republican Party officially awarded the majority of the state's delegates Tuesday to presidential hopeful Donald Trump, but not without making a grade-school gaffe live on national television.

July 20, 2016

Republican National Convention’s security risks highlighted by bogus Wi-Fi networks

More than a thousand Republican National Convention attendees have already put their personal information at risk by carelessly connecting to open Wi-Fi networks around Cleveland, security experts said Tuesday.

July 20, 2016

Chris Correa, former pro baseball scout, sentenced to prison for hacking Houston Astros

Former St. Louis Cardinals scouting director Chris Correa was sentenced to 46 months behind bars Monday after pleading guilty to hacking another team's online database.

July 19, 2016

Brazilian court orders WhatsApp shutdown, once again suspending country’s most popular messenger app

The Facebook-owned messaging service WhatsApp was ordered offline by a Brazilian judge Tuesday for the third time in under a year.

July 19, 2016

WikiLeaks attacked after promising to publish secret Turkish documents: Report

WikiLeaks said its website was attacked Monday after promising to publish hundreds of thousands of documents on Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his political party, AKP.

July 19, 2016

Google says government surveillance requests hit all-time high

Governments across the globe requested more user data from Google during the second half of 2015 than ever before, the internet giant said Monday.

July 19, 2016

Starbucks to begin porn-blocking on its free Wi-Fi

Starbucks said Friday that the coffee chain's complimentary Wi-Fi will soon block X-rated websites, heeding the call of anti-porn activists who recently found similar success after urging McDonald's to do the same.

July 16, 2016

Russia weighs Pokemon Go regulations ahead of official release: reports

Pokemon Go risks being reined in by politicians in Moscow, even before the wildly popular game makes its official Russian debut.

July 16, 2016

Baton Rouge boy, 12, arrested amid investigation into alleged plot to kill police

A 12-year-old boy was arrested Friday in Baton Rouge on suspicion of plotting to kill police officers with stolen handguns, authorities said.

July 16, 2016

Twitter praised for acting quickly on accounts endorsing Nice attack

Watchdog groups applauded Twitter on Friday for quickly taking action against accounts that celebrated the Nice, France terrorist attack on social media.

July 16, 2016

Internet throttling in Turkey stifles, doesn’t stop social media reaction to coup

Internet companies reported services being throttled back in Turkey amidst an attempted coup on Friday, but staggering connection speeds didn't stop citizens from broadcasting first-hand accounts while the insurgency unfolded.

July 16, 2016

Rocky Anderson, former Salt Lake City mayor, asks judge to allow class action suit against NSA

Former Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson told a federal judge on Thursday that he should be able to move forward with a class-action lawsuit against the National Security Agency over allegations of illegal mass surveillance.

July 15, 2016

Russia plans for anti-aircraft system in Crimea to keep out NATO jets

Russia will permanently deploy an advanced air defense system to Crimea next month as Moscow attempts to fortify the contested Black Sea peninsula from potential NATO intervention, officials said Friday.

July 15, 2016

House bill would criminalize ‘revenge porn,’ carry penalties for nonconsensual sharing

Legislation proposed Thursday in the U.S. House of Representatives would make it a federal crime to share nonconsensual pornography, or "revenge porn" -- the first offering of its kind to be brought up in Congress after dozens of states passed similar measures of their own.

July 15, 2016

John McCain threatens to subpoena Apple CEO as Senate revives encryption debate

Sen. John McCain threatened Thursday to compel Apple CEO Tim Cook to testify again about the company's use of encryption as Congress continues to consider the consequences of allowing smartphone users to communicate under the radar of authorities.

July 15, 2016

Satanic prayer opens Pensacola city council meeting; police forced to remove protesters

A city council meeting in Pensacola, Florida, turned chaotic Thursday evening when officials allowed a local religious-freedom activist to start the event with a Satanic prayer.

July 15, 2016

House members launch bipartisan Fourth Amendment Caucus to defend privacy rights

Lawmakers in the House said Wednesday that a bipartisan caucus has been established to address privacy concerns as the Congress weigh giving authorities greater access to Americans' digital communications.

July 14, 2016

NYPD officials plead not guilty to cops-on-call corruption scheme

Two members of the New York Police Department pleaded not guilty in federal court Wednesday to charges related to what prosecutors have pegged as a corruption case that allegedly allowed local businessmen to pay for a "private police force."

July 14, 2016