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I watched the teaser trailer at Star Wars Celebration in April and then avoided anything on the film.

Her family gave a statement to the Daily Mail earlier today (December 16) confirming that the much-loved matriarch, whose full name was Patricia Brooker, had died following a “short illness”.

Other officials familiar with post-shooting investigations into Malik’s background said that Malik posted her pro-jihadist messages under a pseudonym and also activated privacy settings, which meant that any alarming messages would have been hard to find even if visa...

John Kerby, a US State Department spokesman, said immigration’s vetting process doesn’t necessarily involve looking into an applicant’s social media footprint.

The State Department said that “obviously things went wrong” in the visa background check for one of the San Bernardino shooters, due to a secret US policy that prohibits immigration officials from reviewing the social media messages of foreign citizens applying for...

As part of continued repercussions from the tragedy in San Bernardino, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is reversing previous protocols that prevented officials from examining visa applicants’ social media presences as part of the vetting process.

Attendees for Star Wars: The Force Awakens‘ first public screening included the cast and crew, a raft of Hollywood’s finest A-list talent and of course, plenty of press.

However, the service will likely target new users who don’t yet understand the point of Twitter or how it works. Twitter says its aim is to represent conversation in as diverse a way as possible.

The visa screening process has come under review by the Homeland Security and State departments, after it emerged that one of the shooters in this month’s San Bernardino, CA, attack had immigrated to the United States on a “fiancé visa” – and that she has...

The seventh Star Wars film is tipped to become the year’s biggest box office success and a guaranteed cash cow for Disney which bought the rights to the franchise three years ago.

Especially when the network sets new ratings records with “The California Kid” at the helm, as it recently did with UFC 194 this past Saturday (Dec. 12, 2015) leading into the “Aldo vs. McGregor” pay-per-view (PPV) event in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Historically, it’s been virtually impossible to change a name on your account, but now, Facebook will guide you through a process that lets you explain your situation better so that its moderators can make a more informed decision when approving your name change.

As audiences across the world wait for Star Wars: The Force Awakens to come to them, a select few have seen it, and have tweeted their thoughts.

European politicians have proposed an amendment to the European Data Protection Regulation – which would increase the legal age for social media to 16, from 13.

DHS’ Office of Civil Liberties also came under fire last week when Phil Haney, a former U.S. Customs and Border Protection official, conducted an interview with Fox News’ Megyn Kelly in which he said that an investigation he was conducting into an Islamist group with...