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 ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — TextSpot, a Grand Rapids-based company that helps small businesses send mass text message chains, may have helped investigators looking into a series of racist messages sent ...

Officials with the City of South Beloit are clarifying a “false and unauthorized” mass text message sent to members of the ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas voters would have more transparency around political advertising and campaign expenditures under a pair of bills the House passed Friday. Mass-text messaging campaigns would have ...

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 ...

UP IN THE NEXT HALF HOUR. MICHELLE AND JESSE, BACK TO YOU. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. A CENTRAL FLORIDA MOTHER IS SPEAKING OUT AFTER SHE SAYS HER DAUGHTER WAS ONE OF MANY WHO GOT A MASS TEXT WITH A RACIST ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...