Andrew Blake

TikTok threatens legal action against Trump administration over executive order targeting app

TikTok threatened legal action Friday in light of President Trump issuing an executive order creating uncertainties about the future of the popular Chinese-owned social media app.

August 8, 2020

Edward Snowden, NSA leaker, sanctioned in federal court for refusing to cooperate in civil suit

Edward J. Snowden was sanctioned in federal court Friday after a magistrate judge found he acted in bad faith by refusing to produce documents relevant to a civil lawsuit he lost.

August 8, 2020

Ted Nugent, NRA board member, evokes Holocaust while reacting to gun group’s latest legal challenge

Ted Nugent evoked the Holocaust on Friday to criticize New York Attorney General Letitia James for seeking to dissolve the National Rifle Association on whose board he sits.

August 8, 2020

Jerry Falwell Jr. on ‘indefinite leave of absence’ from Liberty University following Instagram post

Jerry Falwell Jr., the president and chancellor of Liberty University, has begun an indefinite leave of absence from the evangelical Christian college, its board announced Friday.

August 8, 2020

Russia trying to ‘denigrate’ Biden; China wants Trump to lose: U.S. intel assessments

China, Russia and Iran are trying to sway the U.S. presidential election, the Trump administration cautioned in its most direct warning yet about foreign interference in the race.

August 7, 2020

Facebook blocks pro-Trump group from placing ads on platform for posting misinformation

Facebook announced it has suspended the advertising privileges of a powerful super political action committee supportive of President Trump for repeatedly promoting misinformation on its social network.

August 7, 2020

Facebook dismantles Romanian network that boosted pro-Trump content

Facebook and Instagram accounts touting President Trump were taken down after being traced to a Romanian-based network recently purged from the platforms, Facebook said Thursday.

August 7, 2020

Marijuana recall sparked by concerns worker licked pre-rolled cigarettes sold throughout Michigan

Marijuana regulators in Michigan recalled pre-rolled joints sold throughout the state Thursday over concerns they could have been licked by the person who put them together.

August 7, 2020

One-third of Americans say they would refuse free, FDA-approved COVID-19 vaccine: Poll

Roughly a third of Americans polled said they would not agree to be injected with a free vaccine that prevents COVID-19, the disease the novel coronavirus causes, Gallup reported Friday.

August 7, 2020

Rush Limbaugh defends Donald Trump for claiming children are ‘virtually immune’ to COVID-19

Rush Limbaugh defended President Trump Thursday for falsely asserting that children are "virtually immune" to COVID-19, the contagious disease caused by the novel coronavirus.

August 6, 2020

Senate bans TikTok from government-issued devices

TikTok is on the path to be prohibited on all devices issued by the U.S. government following passage Thursday of a Senate bill proposed months before President Trump threatened to ban the app.

August 6, 2020

Trump defends ‘China Virus’ as term for COVID-19: ‘We have great Asian support, and they understand’

President Trump was confronted Thursday by his longtime friend Geraldo Rivera about using the term "China Virus" to refer to COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.

August 6, 2020

TikTok tweaking policies to tackle political misinformation leading up to November election

TikTok is taking steps to fight the spread of political misinformation on its popular video-sharing platform ahead of November's election, the company announced Wednesday.

August 6, 2020

Sebastian Gorka on Joe Biden’s search for VP: ‘Martin Luther King is spinning in his grave’

Sebastian Gorka argued Wednesday that Martin Luther King Jr. would disapprove of Joe Biden only considering Black women to be his running mate in the presidential race.

August 6, 2020

Parler CEO says up-and-coming social media service will not ban users for hate speech

Parler, the budding social media service touting itself as an alternative to Twitter, will not ban users for posting hate speech, its CEO said in an interview Wednesday.

August 5, 2020

Andrew Weissmann, former Mueller prosecutor: AG Barr bent the law for Roger Stone

Andrew Weissmann, a top prosecutor under special counsel Robert Mueller, called out Attorney General William P. Barr on Wednesday over his handling of the case against Roger Stone.

August 5, 2020

Dem lawmakers request free masks for all Americans included in coronavirus relief package

Congressional leaders were asked Tuesday to make face masks freely available to every American to help slow the spread of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.

August 5, 2020

Tucker Carlson questions George Floyd’s cause of death

Fox News host Tucker Carlson cast doubt Tuesday on what caused the death of George Floyd in light of leaked video footage of his fatal May 25 arrest becoming public this week.

August 5, 2020

Donald Trump slams Obama’s eulogy for John Lewis: ‘I think it was a terrible speech’

President Trump on Wednesday excoriated the eulogy former President Barack Obama delivered last week during the funeral of late congressman and civil rights leader John Lewis.

August 5, 2020

Neil Young sues Trump campaign for copyright infringement

Neil Young sued President Trump's reelection campaign in federal court Tuesday for using his music without permission during a political rally held June 20 in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

August 4, 2020