At the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, the mood on campus around the presidential election was "definitely somber," said Samantha Greene, the president of the school's Black Student ...

In the hours after President Trump won a second term last year, Americans nationwide started receiving hate-filled text messages taking aim at their race, gender, sexuality or religion. Investigators ...

A federal law created in 1991 sought to prevent certain phone call telemarketing practices. Called the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), the law restricted corporations from using robocall ...

An attendee holds a button with “Say no to gambling” during an Irving City Council meeting, Thursday, March 20, 2025, in Irving. The Las Vegas Sands Corp. asked Irving City Council members before the ...

House Bill 4960 would make mass-text campaigns — those sent to multiple recipients in support or opposition of a candidate, party, public official or measure — a form of political advertising. iSTOCK ...

Hackers on Monday hijacked a mass text messaging service, pushing hundreds of thousands of scam texts to people who subscribe to alerts from New York state, a Catholic charity and a political ...

SOUTH BELOIT, Ill. (WIFR) - Officials with the City of South Beloit clarify a “false and unauthorized” mass text message sent to members of the community. The city says the message was sent Dec. 3 and ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill announced Thursday she is investigating whether pharmaceutical giant CVS improperly used customers' personal information to send out text ...

Americans across the country received harmful hate messages via text after the election. The communication industry has been trying to figure out how it happened. In the hours after President Trump ...