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Chinese hackers have targeted the emails accounts of former vice president Joe Biden’s campaign staff, while Iranian hackers attempted to hack Trump campaign email accounts, Google confirmed Thursday. The campaigns have been briefed on the threats, both of which were so-called spear-phishing attacks in which spam emails that include malicious links are sent to targets …
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Snoop Dogg says he’s never voted — but this year he plans on changing that. “For many years it had me brainwashed thinking that you couldn’t vote because you had a criminal record,” the rapper — who has gun and drug convictions going back to his high school days, though he says his record’s been …
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Mark Zuckerberg’s controversial decision to not censor offensive or inaccurate posts by President Trump could land him in hot water with advertisers, according to a new report. Liberal media watchdog group Media Matters for America is drafting a letter urging advertisers to pull their ad spots from Facebook in protest of Zuckerberg’s handling of Trump’s …
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Senator Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) said Thursday that he would block the confirmation of two Trump appointees over unanswered questions about the administration’s firing of two inspectors general, on the grounds that the White House has failed its legal requirement “to provide clear reasons” for the removals. Grassley said his refusal to advance the nominations …
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Attorney General William Barr on Thursday defended his order to force back protesters ahead of President Trump’s Monday photo op at St. John’s Church, saying the group was “becoming increasingly unruly” and was asked to move several times. “We asked three times,” for protesters in Lafayette Park, Washington, D.C. to move back one block, Barr said at a press …
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Senator Lisa Murkowski (R., Alaska) on Thursday told reporters she could have difficulty backing President Trump in the November elections. Murkowski made the admission after praising former defense secretary James Mattis’s criticism of Trump’s performance. “We are witnessing the consequences of three years without mature leadership,” Mattis told the Atlantic on Wednesday. Murkowski said Mattis’s remarks were “necessary …
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Senator Lindsey Graham on Thursday said he thinks former Defense Secretary James Mattis was “missing something” when he criticized President Trump in the wake of the protests sweeping the nation over the death of George Floyd. “To General Mattis, I think you’re missing something here, my friend,” Graham said during an Fox News interview. “You’re …
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Nearly three dozen former employees from Facebook’s early days on Wednesday blasted chief executive Mark Zuckerberg’s decision not to act against incendiary posts by President Trump as “cowardly” and a “betrayal” of company ideals. The open letter, initially reported by the New York Times, deepened a crisis facing Facebook’s leadership team, who had to defend …
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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey doesn’t appear to be interested in making up with President Trump any time soon. Just a week after flagging two of Trump’s tweets with fact-checking labels — prompting the president to call for regulation of social media companies — Dorsey announced that he was donating $3 million to the charity run …
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Retired Marine general James Mattis, who resigned as President Trump’s Secretary of Defense in 2018, broke his silence on the administration in a statement Wednesday, saying he was “angry and appalled” by Trump’s response to national unrest after the death of George Floyd. Mattis, who clashed with Trump’s over the initial decision to withdraw American …
Chinese hackers have targeted the emails accounts of former vice president Joe Biden’s campaign staff, while Iranian hackers attempted to hack Trump campaign email accounts, Google confirmed Thursday. The campaigns have been briefed on the threats, both of which were so-called spear-phishing attacks in which spam emails that include malicious links are sent to targets …
