Andrew Blake

Supreme Court rejects challenge to attendance caps imposed on religious services during coronavirus

The Supreme Court late Friday rejected a bid that it block California from limiting the number of people allowed to attend religious services during the novel coronavirus pandemic. Chief Justice John Roberts joined the court's liberal wing in the 5-4 ruling.

May 30, 2020

Taylor Swift rips Donald Trump for threatening to shoot Minneapolis looters

Taylor Swift savaged President Trump on Friday for threatening to have members of the U.S. military shoot at people looting stores following the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who died this week in the custody of the Minneapolis Police Department.

May 29, 2020

Monkeys accused of swiping blood samples taken from coronavirus patients

Monkeys stole blood samples from a laboratory in India that had been taken from people undergoing treatment for COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, international media reported Friday.

May 29, 2020

Laura Ingraham: Trump can relate to George Floyd protesters because of his own experience with FBI

Fox News host Laura Ingraham reasoned that President Trump can relate to outrage over the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who died this week in the custody of the Minneapolis Police Department, "given his own experience with an out-of-control FBI."

May 29, 2020

Recreational marijuana dispensary in downtown Chicago becomes Windy City’s first

A marijuana dispensary in downtown Chicago opened its doors Thursday to become the first pot shop in the city to exclusively sell recreational weed in accordance with Illinois law.

May 29, 2020

Laura Loomer, right-wing activist, says Trump should quit Twitter, ‘issue the final death blow’

Laura Loomer, a right-wing activist banned from Facebook and Twitter, believes President Trump should ditch both social media platforms because of alleged anti-conservative bias.

May 28, 2020

Milo Yiannopoulos: ‘Swamp creature’ Donald Trump does not deserve second term in White House

Milo Yiannopoulos is begrudgingly supporting President Trump's bid for a second term in the White House, the controversial right-wing commentator told The Washington Times.

May 28, 2020

Appeals court rules against activists accusing Facebook and Twitter of censoring conservatives

A lawsuit alleging Facebook and Twitter willfully suppressed politically conservative content to hurt President Trump was flatly rejected Wednesday by a federal appeals court in D.C.

May 27, 2020

Trump’s threat to regulate social media draws mixed responses from conservatives banned from Twitter

President Trump's latest threat to regulate social media platforms to stop them from silencing conservatives drew mixed reactions from right-wing personalities banned from Twitter.

May 27, 2020

Mitt Romney defends MSNBC host Joe Scarborough from Trump’s murder accusations: ‘Enough already’

Sen. Mitt Romney, Utah Republican, called Wednesday for President Trump to stop pushing a conspiracy theory accusing MSNBC host and former Rep. Joe Scarborough of murder.

May 27, 2020

Saturn, Adolf Hitler’s rumored pet alligator, dies in Russia at age 84: Moscow Zoo

Saturn, an alligator falsely rumored for decades to have been kept as a pet by Adolf Hitler, has died in captivity at the age of about 84 years old, the Moscow Zoo in Russia announced Saturday.

May 23, 2020

Sammy Hagar, former Van Halen singer, slams coronavirus restrictions: ‘I’m not locking down anymore’

Rock singer Sammy Hagar on Friday declared himself done with restrictions meant to slow the spread of COVID-19, the contagious and potentially deadly respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus.

May 23, 2020

Beto O’Rourke rips Texas reopening as ‘Dangerous, dumb and weak’

Beto O'Rourke, former Texas congressman and one-time Democratic presidential hopeful, spoke out late Friday against the state's response to the ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic.

May 23, 2020

Jeff Sessions fires back after Trump attacks former AG’s campaign to rejoin Senate

Former U.S. attorney general Jeff Sessions continued to defend himself on Saturday after President Trump mounted an attack on the Alabama Republican's campaign to reclaim his former seat in the U.S. Senate. Mr. Sessions said that he did his duty by following the law and that it ultimately "resulted in [the president's] exoneration."

May 23, 2020

Judge tosses defamation suit filed against MSNBC’s Maddow over segment about OAN, pro-Trump network

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow won a legal victory Friday in a defamation lawsuit brought against her by the parent company of conservative television network One America News, or OAN.

May 23, 2020

Bill Maher: ‘Impeachment turned out to be a horrible thing,’ Donald Trump ‘emboldened’ by acquittal

Bill Maher, one of President Trump's fiercest critics on cable television, voiced regret Friday over Congress having conducted the impeachment proceedings he previously championed.

May 23, 2020

One America News founder touts ‘miraculous’ hydroxychloroquine while courting Donald Trump

The head of One America News, a right-wing cable network recently embraced by the White House, tried to court President Trump after he criticized rival outlet Fox News on Thursday.

May 22, 2020

Rod Blagojevich, ex-Illinois governor given clemency by Trump, asks president to pardon Roger Stone

Rod Blagojevich, the convicted former governor of Illinois spared years in prison by President Trump, is pressing him to do the same for Roger Stone as the latter's sentence looms.

May 22, 2020

Mark Zuckerberg says up to half of Facebook could be working remotely in 5-10 years

Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg said Thursday that he anticipates up to half of the company's employees could be working their jobs remotely within the next five to 10 years.

May 21, 2020

One-quarter of Americans have little or no interest in taking coronavirus vaccine: Poll

Roughly 1 in 4 Americans said they have little or no interest in taking a vaccine to combat the novel coronavirus, the results of a poll revealed Thursday.

May 21, 2020