Andrew Blake

Donald Trump has live-tweeted Fox programming 600+ times in 2019: Report

President Trump has responded on Twitter more than 600 times this year to programming aired on either Fox News or sister station Fox Business Network, a report said Thursday.

December 19, 2019

AOC slams Gabbard’s ‘present’ vote on impeachment: ‘We are sent here to lead’

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took issue with Rep. Tulsi Gabbard being the only Congress member to vote "present" when considering articles of impeachment against President Trump.

December 19, 2019

Tucker Carlson on Democrats voting to impeach Donald Trump: ‘It is a kind of Jonestown dynamic’

Fox News host Tucker Carlson compared Democrats voting Wednesday to impeach President Trump with doomed members of the Peoples Temple group who followed infamous cult leader Jim Jones.

December 19, 2019

Julian Assange lawyer says treaty prohibits extradition of WikiLeaks publisher to U.S.

Attorneys for Julian Assange will fight a U.S. extradition request by reasoning it should be blocked under a bilateral treaty, a lawyer for the WikiLeaks publisher said Thursday.

December 19, 2019

Chicago votes against delaying recreational marijuana sales by six months

Chicago's City Council on Wednesday defeated a measure led by its Black Caucus to delay the start of legal recreational marijuana sales over a lack of minority-owned dispensaries.

December 18, 2019

Adam Schiff says Donald Trump made ‘veiled threat’ on eve of impeachment vote

House Intelligence Chairman Adam B. Schiff said Wednesday that he believes President Trump attempted to threaten him by suggesting he be subjected to Guatemala's justice system.

December 18, 2019

Salem mayor slams Donald Trump for comparing impeachment proceedings to witch trials

President Trump received pushback Tuesday from the mayor of Salem, Massachusetts, for comparing efforts to impeach him with the witch trials held in the city centuries earlier.

December 18, 2019

Edward Snowden, NSA leaker, loses civil suit brought by U.S. over publication of ‘Permanent Record’

Edward Snowden is not entitled to receive proceeds from the sale of the former intelligence contractor's memoir, "Permanent Record," a federal court judge ruled Tuesday.

December 18, 2019

WhatsApp updated to patch bug that allows attacker to crash group chats

Users of WhatsApp, Facebook's widely popular messaging app, were encouraged Tuesday to install the latest version to avoid falling victim to a recently detected software bug.

December 17, 2019

New Jersey lawmakers vote to put marijuana legalization on the ballot in 2020

New Jersey voters will decide whether to legalize recreational marijuana after state lawmakers easily approved a measure Monday to put the question on the ballot in November.

December 17, 2019

Julian Assange case: More than 100 doctors ask Australia to intervene on his behalf

More than 100 medical doctors co-signed a letter released Tuesday urging the Australian government to prevent jailed WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange from dying in a U.K. prison.

December 17, 2019

Tucker Carlson rebuked by Potomac Conservancy after saying immigrants make river dirtier

Fox News personality Tucker Carlson was taken to task by a conservancy group Monday after recently asserting that immigrants have made the Potomac River "dirtier."

December 17, 2019

Billboard to factor YouTube plays into top-album charts

Billboard said Friday that it will soon consider videos played on YouTube and other streaming services when calculating the music industry publication's album chart listings.

December 13, 2019

New Orleans powers down city computers over possible cyberattack

New Orleans shut down city computers Friday after experiencing a suspected cyberattack.

December 13, 2019

Pete Hegseth, ‘Fox & Friends’ host, slams ‘Leftist tech mob’ over Twitter suspension

Fox News personality Pete Hegseth said he will stand his ground and refuse to abide by a request from Twitter to delete a tweet that caused his account to be suspended.

December 13, 2019

Donald Trump sets personal Twitter record during marathon impeachment hearing

President Trump set a personal record on Twitter during the marathon House Judiciary Committee markup hearing held prior to its members passing articles of impeachment Friday.

December 13, 2019

Julian Assange blocked from accessing evidence in WikiLeaks case, defense lawyer tells court

Julian Assange has been denied access to evidence relevant to his ongoing extradition case, a lawyer for the jailed WikiLeaks publisher told a British judge Friday.

December 13, 2019

Massachusetts rolls back ban on sales of marijuana vaping products

Marijuana regulators in Massachusetts on Thursday rolled back a ban on sales of vaping products sparked by a recent spate of severe lung injuries reported across the country.

December 12, 2019

Twitter brings back election label for candidate accounts in 2020

Twitter announced measures Thursday to help users of the social networking service clearly identify the accounts of U.S. political candidates running for office in 2020.

December 12, 2019

Chris Wallace, Fox News host: Donald Trump engaging in unprecedented assault on freedom of the press

Fox News host Chris Wallace accused President Trump on Wednesday of conducting an unprecedented attack on the constitutionally guaranteed right to freedom of the press.

December 12, 2019