Andrew Blake

Judas Priest, Aerosmith postpone 50th anniversary celebrations over coronavirus pandemic

Judas Priest followed Aerosmith on Friday and became the latest long-running rock band to push back plans to celebrate its 50th anniversary due to the novel coronavirus pandemic.

July 11, 2020

Blake Neff, ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight’ writer, resigns from Fox News show after bigoted posts emerge

Blake Neff, a top writer for Tucker Carlson's nightly Fox News program, resigned from the show Friday after it was revealed he posted racist and sexist comments on the internet.

July 11, 2020

Twitter suspends dozens of accounts associated with white nationalist Identitarian movement

Twitter said it suspended dozens of accounts associated with the Identitarian movement, a white nationalist ideology whose adherents oppose multiculturalism in Europe.

July 11, 2020

Donald Trump defends commuting Roger Stone’s sentence, says ‘Witch Hunt’ never should have happened

President Trump on Saturday defended commuting his friend and former adviser Roger Stone's sentence amid the decision prompting fresh criticism from both sides of the aisle.

July 11, 2020

Mitt Romney slams Trump for commuting Roger Stone’s sentence: ‘Unprecedented, historic corruption’

Sen. Mitt Romney on Saturday rebuked President Trump for commuting Roger Stone's sentence, apparently making the Utah Republican the first prominent elected official in the GOP to slam the decision.

July 11, 2020

David Duke, ex-KKK leader, on thin ice with Twitter while dodging platform’s anti-Klan rule

David Duke, the ex-Ku Klux Klan leader among the nation's most notorious living racists, is not banned from Twitter partially because he left the KKK, the company explained Friday.

July 10, 2020

Facebook code change causes others to crash; Spotify and Tinder among iOS apps briefly broken by bug

Apple iOS users experienced problems with several of the mobile operating system's popular applications early Friday due to a software bug Facebook created and eventually fixed.

July 10, 2020

Reddit bans forum dedicated to BlueLeaks, data dump of hacked police documents

Reddit banned an online community dedicated to BlueLeaks, a trove of internal police documents recently leaked online, amid scrutiny over the data dump as well as its revelations.

July 10, 2020

Lou Dobbs claims Supreme Court wants to ‘overthrow’ Donald Trump, who then promotes his book

President Trump hailed Lou Dobbs on Friday shortly after the Fox Business Channel host claimed the Supreme Court wants to overthrow him by ruling on his financial records.

July 10, 2020

Donald Trump says he surprised doctors by having ‘aced’ cognitive test

President Trump said Thursday he surprised doctors by having supposedly "aced" a cognitive test and then dared his presumptive Democratic opponent Joseph R. Biden to do the same.

July 10, 2020

Colin Powell: Donald Trump doesn’t understand U.S. history, Confederates ‘were not great Americans’

Colin Powell criticized President Trump on Thursday for opposing efforts to rename monuments to Confederate leaders who fought against the U.S. in the Civil War.

July 9, 2020

‘Black Lives Matter’ mural painted outside Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue in New York City

New York City closed a stretch of Fifth Avenue on Thursday to have the phrase "Black Lives Matter" painted in large yellow letters on the street outside Trump Tower in Manhattan.

July 9, 2020

Richmond removes three more Confederate monuments within hours

Richmond, Virginia, continued to take down the city's Confederate memorials Thursday after the mayor's office announced it expected to have all of the monument removed by the end of the week.

July 9, 2020

Rudy Giuliani says he called the police on Sacha Baron Cohen after ‘Borat’ star tried to prank him

Rudolph W. Giuliani said he called the police on actor and comedian Sacha Baron Cohen this week after the "Borat" star tried to prank him, the New York Post reported Wednesday.

July 9, 2020

Amazon agrees to pay $134K to settle allegations retail giant violated U.S. sanctions: Treasury

Amazon has reached a settlement with the U.S. government to resolve claims the company repeatedly violated federal sanctions, the Treasury Department announced.

July 9, 2020

Shepard Smith joins CNBC

Shepard Smith is joining CNBC, the network announced Wednesday, where he is set to host an hourlong nightly news program in his first role since leaving Fox News last year.

July 8, 2020

Facebook accuses Roger Stone and associates of coordinated inauthentic behavior, purges accounts

Facebook on Wednesday said it removed dozens of accounts from its flagship social network and its sister-service Instagram that have ties to President Trump's former adviser Roger Stone.

July 8, 2020

Illinois breaks marijuana sales record for fourth consecutive month

Recreational marijuana sales in Illinois throughout June totaled more than $47 million, regulators announced Tuesday, setting a new state record for the fourth consecutive month.

July 8, 2020

Tucker Carlson rips coronavirus mitigation steps as ‘bizarre health theater’, changes take on masks

Fox News host Tucker Carlson reversed course Tuesday and suggested face masks are ineffective against slowing the spread of COVID-19, the disease the coronavirus causes.

July 8, 2020

Marsha Blackburn calls on Ilhan Omar to resign over remark about dismantling systems of oppression

Sen. Marsha Blackburn, Tennessee Republican, called for the resignation of Rep. Ilhan Omar, Minnesota Democrat, over comments she made Tuesday about combating racial injustice.

July 8, 2020