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Politically active porn star, free speech activist, and GamerGate icon Mercedes Carrera dropped out of a panel appearance at SXSW this week after refusing to delete a list of tweets criticising notorious harasser and anti-GamerGate activist Randi Lee Harper, who was also in attendance at the festival.

The presence of a gun rights group at the Texas State Capitol during President Obama’s visit to the SxSW festival elicited members of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense to call for gun violence against the group. Among other incitements to violence, “Just shoot them all,” and “Shoot the a**bags,” they said.

President Barack Obama was in Texas on Friday attending the annual SxSW event where he told millennials and others that government “does great things” because it “is delivering for everybody in this room.” His lecture was to those “who despise every level of government.” He did not tell the Texans who had their homes and businesses destroyed and damaged from severe weather and fires that he has denied them financial assistance.

Friday in Austin, TX at the SxSW event, President Barack Obana pleaded his case for government, explaining that much of what it offers is sometimes taken for granted. Among those areas included weather forecasts, roads and special forces keep the

President Obama will not attend former First Lady Nancy Reagan’s funeral on Friday, the White House confirmed, as he is scheduled for an appearance at the South by Southwest Interactive Festival in Texas instead.

President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama will become the first sitting U.S. president and first lady to attend and deliver speeches at the South by Southwest (SXSW) music festival.

Digital media festival South By Southwest (SXSW) has caved to media pressure following their decision to cave to online threats last week. Two panels were cancelled last week: one on gaming culture and integrity in games media, and another on “harassment

South By Southwest (SXSW), the annual festival of interactive media that once turned homeless people into WiFi routers, has lost its moral compass. See what I did there? But seriously: the festival has, in cowardly fashion, cancelled two panels discussing video games after they were subject to “anonymous threats.”

A Texas Department of Public Safety officer has been reprimanded and ordered to undergo counseling for posing in a photo with rapper Snoop Dogg during last month’s South by Southwest music festival in Austin, TX.

Despite her team’s best attempts to bury the story of Hillary Clinton’s bizarre email deception blunder, inquiring minds still want to know what was going on in that server closet at the Clinton residence while Hillary was serving as Secretary of State. It is a situation that drives open government advocates like me up a wall. Fortunately, open government advocates are everywhere, including South by Southwest (SXSW) in Austin.

In the annals of film festival flops – from unexpected boos to red-carpet gaffes – the premiere of the Will Ferrell, Kevin Hart comedy “Get Hard” will go down as a doozy.

Computer geek activists demonstrate against robots at SXSW; Yemen’s Houthi-controlled Supreme Revolutionary Committee calls for ‘general mobilization’; US military forces evacuating Yemen, fearing AQAP attacks

In a party at the Governor’s Mansion, Texas Governor Greg Abbott and First Lady Cecilia Abbott hosted Texas musicians, music industry representatives and vendors, SXSW attendees, elected officials, and other honored guests in an evening to celebrate Texas music. The

Having fully recovered from his 2014 “sexual assault,” actor Shia LaBeouf is back to his old performance art ways, this time with a project asking fans to follow his heart. Literally.

Ryan Gosling and the cast of his latest film Lost River got quite a surprise during the film’s Q&A panel at the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival on Saturday.

Though he hasn’t officially launched a presidential campaign, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) is taking steps that make it seem that’s likely forthcoming. He opened a new office via RAND PAC in here in Austin that will focus on building a communications technology infrastructure.

The world premiere of Alex Gibney’s “Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine” at South-by-Southwest in Austin was expected to be a celebration of the life and times of the departed founder of Apple Inc. Instead, the movie trashes Jobs and ridicules the global outpouring of emotion that greeted the Apple leader’s 2011 death. Gibney slimes Jobs as less than rock star or a writer of fiction, “but merely a man who sold us things.”

Ashton Kutcher took on the character of Steve Jobs for a Hollywood movie, but he also channeled Steve Jobs’s life and has made about $100 million in early-stage technology investments through his venture capital fund, called A-Grade Investments.

“I think he [President Obama] is and has been a lame duck since the day of the election if not before the election,” Sen. Rand Paul says in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News.

Sen. Rand Paul looks to build campaign strength, but in Texas this weekend, rather than New Hampshire or Iowa.

Russell Brand declined to attend the premiere of his own biographical film Friday night at Austin’s SXSW film festival, which is related to the film’s coverage of his brief marriage to Katy Perry, as well as other personal battles the star would rather forget.