A bipartisan group of 44 attorneys general, including Virginia’s Mark Herring, has written to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg urging him to drop …
WASHINGTON — Lurking beneath Facebook’s decision on whether to continue Donald Trump’s suspension from its platform is a far more complex and …
NEW YORK (AP) — Medical student Natty Jumreornvong has a vaccine and protective gear to shield her from the coronavirus. But she couldn't avoi…
Former President Donald Trump won’t return to Facebook — at least not yet.
Since the day after the deadly Jan. 6 riots on the U.S. Capitol, former President Donald Trump’s social media accounts have been silent — muzz…
AOL and Yahoo are being sold again, this time to a private equity firm.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The woman who returned Lady Gaga’s stolen French bulldogs was among five people arrested in connection with the theft and s…
NEW YORK — President Joe Biden spent only a weekend as the “Hamburglar” in the conservative media world.
NEW DELHI (AP) — Dr. Gautam Singh dreads the daily advent of the ventilator beeps, signaling that oxygen levels are critically low, and hearin…
Apple is following through on its pledge to crack down on Facebook and other snoopy apps that secretly shadow people on their iPhones in order…
FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. (AP) — A group of Black soldiers was recently harassed at a northern Virginia restaurant by a woman who used racist langua…
Apple spruced up its product line at an event Tuesday while slipping in quiet notice of a software update, now due next week, designed to enha…
TOWSON, Md. (AP) — Police say they will provide extra security at an upcoming Baltimore County school board meeting after the board’s chairwom…
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Brass bands playing at a 24-hour drive-thru coronavirus vaccine event. Doses delivered to commercial fishermen minutes…
A northern Virginia tech staffing company has apologized after an online job posting sought "preferably Caucasian" applicants. Cynet Systems in Sterling removed the post and issued an apology Sunday on Twitter. The company said the individuals involved have been fired and the job post "does not reflect our core values of inclusivity and equality." A Cynet statement issued Monday said the company has a longstanding policy to turn down clients who request candidates of a specific race or gender.
An emergency medical technician who was suspended after The Huffington Post reported he was a frequent co-host of a neo-Nazi podcast has now been fired. News outlets report JEB Stuart Rescue Squad's board of directors voted Sunday to fire 35-year-old Alex McNabb. The Dec. 8 report said McNabb told stories about being an EMT on the podcast, often referring to patients by racist slurs.
NBC, Fox News Channel and Facebook all said Monday they will stop airing President Donald Trump's campaign advertisement that featured an immigrant convicted of killing two police officers. CNN had rejected the same ad, declaring it racist. The advertisement aired on NBC's "Sunday Night Football" and MSNBC's "Morning Joe," and drew a heated online response.
A federal magistrate judge has ruled that a social media platform can be compelled to divulge account information belonging to a woman who anonymously chatted online about plans for last summer's deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. U.S. Magistrate Judge Joseph Spero's order Monday says the woman's First Amendment rights to anonymous speech don't outweigh the importance of disclosing her identity to attorneys suing far-right extremists over the rally's violence.
After listening to days of damaging testimony from prosecution witnesses, a former Virginia Tech student pleaded no contest Friday to killing a 13-year-old girl he met through social media. David Eisenhauer, 20, entered his plea to all three charges against him in the stabbing death of Nicole Lovell: first-degree murder, abduction and concealing a body. The plea came on the fourth day of testimony at his trial.
CHRISTIANSBURG — The accomplice of a former Virginia Tech student charged in the stabbing death of a 13-year-old girl had a fascination with k…
MAYS LANDING, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey politician who shared a meme on Facebook during January's Women's March in Washington asking whether the protest would be "over in time for them to cook dinner" is eating his words.
CHARLOTTESVILLE — The recent wave of controversies over far-right speakers on college campuses shows that the debate over free speech — one of…
Kyler Schmitz liked to get home from work, drink wine, and vent on Twitter. What he said there turned him into a felon.
A racist video featuring a woman wearing an Old Dominion University T-shirt and singing a rap song about lynching and white power shocked stud…
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A school board member in Hillary Clinton's hometown resigned after making a derogatory reference on Twitter to the female anatomy in describing women marching against President Donald Trump. An Illinois teacher was pulled from the classroom for a tweet deemed sexist. And a freshman Indiana lawmaker was inundated with criticism over a Facebook post mocking "fat women."
