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China will send a high-level envoy to North Korea on Friday, days after President Xi Jinping met with Trump

Several hours after Donald Trump created an international controversy by calling North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un "short and fat" on Twitter, Trump's Chief of Staff John Kelly said he doesn't allow his aides and staffers to react to the president's tweets. Kelly told a group of reporters in Vietnam: "Someone, I read the other day, said we all just react to the tweets. We don’t. I don’t. I don’t allow the staff to. We know what we’re doing. Believe it or not, I do not follow the tweets. I find out about them but for our purposes, my purpose, is...

Pinned Tweet Empty Seats Galore‏ @EmptySeatsPics 31 Aug 2015 More My dear followers: Your teams don't have the best fans. Your city isn't the best sports town. Just the realities of life. 70 replies 231 retweets 1,004 likes Reply 70 Retweet 231 Like 1.0K Empty Seats Galore Retweeted Eugene Frenette‏ @GeneFrenette 13m13 minutes ago More Replying to @CurtisDvorak @Jaguars #Jaguars announced crowd, which is tickets distributed, was 60,835. Definitely not that many there. 6,000 tickets were giveaways to military.

North Korea and its nuclear weapons program have plagued the U.S. for years. What to do with all of these missile tests? How do we negotiate? It’s all documented. With President Donald Trump, some people do think that his Twitter and overall personality could make a nuclear exchange more likely. So, as the president finishes the last leg of his Asia trip, he decided to take to Twitter and bash North Korean Kim Jong-un “short and fat.” This came after the Asian dictator called Trump “old.”“Why would Kim Jong-un insult me by calling me ‘old,’" tweeted the president. “When...

@MittRomney Innocent until proven guilty is for criminal convictions, not elections. I believe Leigh Corfman. Her account is too serious to ignore. Moore is unfit for office and should step aside.

BERKELEY — It didn’t take long for fake news about the shooter in Sunday’s church massacre to spread across the internet. Now, a pair of computer-savvy UC Berkeley students are trying to do what lawmakers have been begging Twitter to do for months: call out automated bot accounts that spew false, deliberately divisive political propaganda under the dangerous guise of being real people with legitimate views. On Halloween, while most of their fellow students were donning costumes and preparing for a night of celebration, Ash Bhat and Rohan Phadte officially launched Botcheck.me, a Google Chrome browser extension and website that...

You will hear about the Trump associates, you will hear about the famous, but you won’t hear much about two of the largest beneficiaries from Russian State linked investment in the Paradise Papers. Could this be because between the two of them they control the entire market of social media? When the flood of documents first came out in 2013, it was, and is the second largest “document dump” in history. People have spent years poring over the details, some of which came to light today. It turns out that both Facebook and Twitter received hundreds of millions of dollars...

On Sunday, the day of the church massacre, cultural commentator David French tweeted, “The amount of anti-Christian hate on Twitter the same day Christians were massacred is stunning and chilling.” If ever there was a time when we might have expected sympathy for Christians, or at least restraint in attacking them, the opposite proved true far too many times. Why? On Fox News, Laura Ingraham noted that some of the reactions to the shooting pointed to “elite hostility to people of faith,” stating that “hostility to faith infects the popular culture.” She also spoke of a rising “militant secularism,” drawing...

Actress Rose McGowan slammed Alec Baldwin as a “wee little baby man” and a “scum bucket” on Sunday over his Twitter tiff about sex harassment and assault accusations against Harvey Weinstein. Twitter post . . . It all began when Baldwin indicated Friday on “PBS NewsHour” that women who accepted financial settlements from Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein to keep quiet about alleged sex harassment or assault may have delayed justice. After he was scorched on Twitter for “mansplaining,” a hurt Baldwin clarified that he didn’t intend to “blame the victim” and said he was taking a break from his personal...

The Russian government quietly held a financial interest in U.S. social media. A major investor in Twitter and Facebook had financial ties to two Russian government-owned firms known as vehicles for the Kremlin’s politically sensitive dealings, newly unearthed documents show. The records show that one of the Kremlin-owned firms, VTB Bank, quietly directed $191 million into an investment fund, DST Global, that used the money to buy a large stake in Twitter in 2011. They also show that a subsidiary of the Kremlin-controlled energy giant Gazprom heavily funded an offshore company that partnered with DST Global in a large investment...

CLICK ON SOURCE LINK Bad language suggested but tastefully redacted. This is appropriate on the day he reported to prison.

If there was a fancy Malibu rehab center for Trump Derangement Syndrome it would be jam packed with celebrities right now. Ten months into Trump’s first term Hollywood actors, directors, comedians and singers are STILL having trouble coping with life under President Trump. Comedian Rosie O’Donnell confessed her sick obsession: “I spend like pretty much 90 percent of my waking hours tweeting hatred” towards Trump. And for some celebs Trump became a literal nightmare they can’t wake up from. Actor Rob Reiner whined: “I’m in a nightmare that doesn’t ever stop,” and hippie-singer David Crosby wailed about the “orange nightmare...

Conservative powerhouse Sean Hannity fired off a ‘Tick Tock’ warning to his millions of Twitter followers Monday and told everybody to “stay tuned”.

The Russian government invested in social media companies Facebook and Twitter through Russian-American billionaire and venture capitalist Yuri Milner, according to documents leaked as part of the Paradise Papers. Records show VTB Bank and energy company Gazprom, both linked to the Kremlin, worked with Milner's investment fund DST Global to buy stakes in Facebook and Twitter before selling them when the companies went public in 2012 and 2013 respectively. VTB Bank initially paid $191 million in 2011 to control 5 percent of Twitter at the time of its public offering, while a Gazprom subsidiary financed a business that partnered with...

There are reports that Saudi Arabia is on lockdown as elite Clinton connections are being detained.

This week, an excerpt from former Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Donna Brazile's forthcoming book asserted that the DNC conspired with Hillary Clinton to rig the Party's primary system to cheat Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders out of the presidential nomination. Ironically, Brazile lost her gig at CNN when Wikileaks revealed that she abetted the cheating by giving Hillary Clinton an advance peak at debate questions. Brazile expressed shock that in exchange for a $20 million cash payment, the DNC under her predecessor Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (Fla) sold controlling interest to Hillary Clinton. "I don't know whether that was illegal, but it...

Petition Launched to Give Twitter Ex-Employee Who Deactivated Pres. Trump’s Account the Keys to San Francisco"This person is an American hero who deserves to be honored," the petition read'Sorry, That Page Doesn't Exist': A Twitter employee shut down President Trump's personal Twitter account on their last day of work Thursday, resulting in the @realDonaldTrump account going dark for 11 minutes. Now the internet has launched a petition to give the person a keys to the City of San Francisco. The Care2 petition had garnered 612 signatures of the 10,000 goal as of Friday evening. It says: “Bullying, doxing, racist speech,...

ESPN personality Sarah Spain, captioned the announcement (of Trump's twitter account being deactivated by a rogue employee) from Twitter with a single word, “Hero:”

A prominent attorney for cybersecurity issues has this advice to the unnamed Twitter employee said to have pulled the plug on President Trump's email account: "Don't say anything and get a lawyer." Tor Ekeland told The Hill that while the facts of the case are still unclear and the primary law used to prosecute hackers is murky and unevenly applied, there is a reasonable chance the Twitter employee violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). Twitter announced Thursday evening that "a Twitter customer support employee... on the employee’s last day" intentionally cut off service to President Trump's Twitter account....

U.S. President Donald Trump's @realdonaldtrump Twitter account was deactivated by a Twitter Inc employee who was leaving the company on Thursday and was down for 11 minutes before it was restored, the social media company said. "We have learned that this was done by a Twitter customer-support employee who did this on the employee's last day. We are conducting a full internal review," Twitter said in a tweet. "We are continuing to investigate and are taking steps to prevent this from happening again," the company said in an earlier tweet. A Twitter representative declined to comment further.