The first election results are starting to come in. read more
Charlie Warzel: X has always had a Nazi problem. But something is different today. Heaps of unfiltered posts that plainly celebrate racism, anti-Semitism, and outright Nazism are easily accessible and possibly even promoted by the site's algorithms. All the while, Elon Musk - a far-right activist and the site's owner, who is campaigning for and giving away millions to help elect Donald Trump - amplifies horrendous conspiracy theories about voter fraud, migrants run amok, and the idea that Jewish people hate white people. read more
One of the most important ads of the 2024 presidential election is only six seconds long. Why is a six-second ad, barely long enough to say the names of both candidates, so important? Because unlike most ads on YouTube - and a lot of other social media platforms - the viewer is not allowed to skip it, which is important in a fragmented media environment where viewers rarely have to watch anything they don't want to watch. And the low-information, low-propensity, disaffected voters who may end up deciding the 2024 presidential election don't pay attention to politics and don't want to pay attention to politics. read more
As polls open, Vice President Kamala Harris is predicted to win the election by almost every major forecaster. read more
Under Florida law, if a voter has an out-of-state conviction, Florida will defer to that state's laws for how a felon can regain his or her voting rights. or Trump, that means he will benefit from a 2021 New York law that allows people with felony convictions to vote as long as they're not serving a term of incarceration at the time of the election. For other Floridians with felony convictions, the rules are not so simple. read more
Moldova's pro-European Union leader, President Maia Sandu, has claimed victory over pro-Russian challenger Alexandr Stoianoglo in a presidential runoff marred by Kremlin interference. read more
At a rally in North Carolina, Donald Trump admitted that after getting angry with Michelle Obama, he was cautioned by his team to 'take it easy'. read more
This interstellar traveler is a survivor. read more
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger confirmed Tuesday a bomb threat was made against a polling place, but he said it was of Russian origin and not credible. read more
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear a bid by Louisiana officials and civil rights groups to preserve an electoral map that raised the number of Black-majority congressional districts in the state in a legal challenge by a group of voters who called themselves "non-African American." read more
Walz campaigned across Wisconsin and in Detroit, Mich., on Monday. Trump's running mate, Ohio U.S. Sen. JD Vance, held his own rally in La Crosse on Monday. read more
OpEd: America's top right-wingers are calling for the use of paper ballots in the presidential election. Computers are never completely safe, so they're right -- but paper will be used virtually everywhere anyway. read more
Markets move after poll shows unexpected groundswell of support for Kamala Harris ahead of Tuesday's election read more
Yesterday, Kamala Harris continued her uplifting message by going to a Black church in Detroit and channeling the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by saying the nation was "ready to bend the arc of history toward justice." Meanwhile, Donald Trump held a rally in Lititz, PA where he threw out his prepared speech and adlibbed it, attacking the polls as fake and the Democrats as demonic. read more
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a prominent proponent of debunked public health claims whom Donald Trump has promised to put in charge of health initiatives, said Saturday that Trump would push to remove fluoride from drinking water on his first day in office. read more
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