JPMorgan Chase & Co. said it is pausing all corporate political action committee donations to Republicans and Democrats for the next six months in the wake of last week’s riot at the Capitol. The largest U.S. bank by assets is among other companies that announced this weekend they would make […]
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Families of Shooting Victims Sue Sellers of ‘Ghost Guns’ | Political News
By CHRISTOPHER WEBER, Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Families of those killed and wounded in a rural California shooting rampage three years ago are suing manufacturers and sellers of “ghost gun” kits that provide easy-to-assemble firearm parts that make it difficult to track or regulate owners. A pair of […]
Post-election, political partisanship on Main Street is spiking
U.S. President-elect Joe Biden speaks about the U.S. economy following a briefing with economic advisers in Wilmington, Delaware, November 16, 2020. Kevin Lemarque | Reuters Main Street confidence dropped again this quarter — the second setback this year and also only the second substantial decrease in the nearly four years […]
Ilhan Omar cuts financial ties with husband’s political firm after paying it nearly $2.8M
Rep. Ilhan Omar is reportedly severing financial ties with her husband’s political consulting firm after previous payments totaling nearly $2.8 million ignited scrutiny and complaints to a campaign finance watchdog. In an email to supporters on Sunday, Omar, D-Minn., said her campaign was terminating its contract with E Street Group to “make sure that […]
The Folly of Just Throwing Money at Political Candidates
Not all online donors are clicking Donate from their couch in response to viral videos. Plenty of people, wealthy and non-wealthy, are doing something different. I have met with groups of low-dollar donors who thoughtfully plan out to whom to give $25 or $50 over the course of an election […]
3 Game-Changing Stocks That’ll Make You Rich No Matter Which Political Party Is in Charge
Another election is now in the books, but things aren’t nearly as clear as we’d like, at least of this writing in the early evening of Nov. 4, 2020. Whichever way the White House swings, we’ll likely have a split Congress. The House of Representatives will remain under the control […]
Could a Joe Biden Presidency Help Saudi Political Prisoners?
Saudi Arabian legal scholar Abdullah Alaoudh has become adept at spotting state-backed harassment. From the daily barrage of insults and death threats from the network of online bots and trolls known as the regime’s “flies,” Alaoudh says he’s learned to differentiate serious risks from annoyances, report threats to the appropriate […]
Facebook missteps stoke fears of long political ad blackout online
Democrats, in particular, are concerned that the undefined timeline for restarting online ads could hamper efforts to raise money and voter awareness around potential Senate runoffs in Georgia and Mississippi in January. Others noted that the policies will make it more difficult for campaigns to raise legal funds for recounts. […]
Donald Trump Faces a Personal and Political Vulnerability
The President stood triumphant on the White House balcony, having persuaded his doctors to submit to his will. He had spent his days at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center pushing them to let him out, medical advice be damned. Donald Trump tore off his mask and seemed to gasp […]
Democrat’s Personal Scandal Roils N. Carolina Senate Race | Political News
BY BRIAN SLODYSKO and GARY D. ROBERTSON, Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A race in North Carolina critical to control of the U.S. Senate has been thrown into turmoil over allegations of personal misconduct by Democrat Cal Cunningham, a married man who had an extramarital relationship this summer with […]
Political microtargeting is overblown, but still a danger to democracy
We learned this week that the Trump campaign may have tried to dissuade millions of Black voters from voting in 2016 through highly targeted online ads. The investigation, by Channel 4, highlighted a still little-understood online advertising technique, microtargeting. This targets ads at people based on the huge amount of […]
A political ad-maker’s journey into what’s wrong and right with health care
Today, two surgeons will operate on a tumor just millimeters away from the brain I use to feed my family. The path to this has made much of what I do as a political ad-maker real and relevant — and convinced me of the changes we do and do not […]
Bill Would Restrict Access to Judges’ Personal Information | Political News
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — In the wake of the fatal shooting of a federal judge’s son in New Jersey, bi-partisan legislation seeks to restrict online access to judges’ personal information. Twenty-year-old Daniel Anderl, the son of U.S. District Judge Esther Salas, was shot and killed inside the family’s home on […]
Alyssa Milano Gets Candid About COVID-19 Recovery and Political Activism (Exclusive)
Alyssa Milano is opening up about her difficult recovery from the coronavirus. ET’s Kevin Frazier spoke with the actress on Thursday, and she talked about the toll its taken on her health and the symptoms she’s still currently experiencing. Last month, Milano revealed that she tested positive for antibodies after […]
Harry and Meghan’s political statements ‘could harm US brand
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are risking their brand in the US with their political statements, but could find they benefit from them across the rest of the world, according to a brand expert. Eric Schiffer, chairman of Reputation Management Consultants, told Yahoo UK that the couple has taken a […]
Prince Harry, Meghan Markle make rare royal political statement for ‘most important election of our lifetime’
Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, urged Americans to get out and vote while making their first joint television appearance since moving to the United States. “We’re six weeks out from the election, and today is Voter Registration Day,” Meghan said Tuesday on the TIME100 special […]
YouTube is a 2020 political battlefield
Politics are hard to miss on YouTube this year. Last month, Joe Biden made a splash when his campaign bought out YouTube’s homepage with an ad about sports stadiums that had been left empty by the coronavirus pandemic. The ad got more than 10 million impressions, his most ever on […]
Oracle won the TikTok sweepstakes. It’s inheriting its political problems, too.
Oracle has spent years pushing to curtail the power of Silicon Valley’s social media giants. Now a pending deal with TikTok may force the cloud computing company to face the same tough critiques over how it protects users and polices content. Oracle confirmed Monday that it was chosen to serve […]
Kenosha’s unusual economic evolution made it the perfect political flashpoint
In the span of less than two weeks, the city of Kenosha, Wisc., has gone from an unassuming bedroom community nestled on the shores of Lake Michigan, into a flashpoint for the social and political fault lines that have flared up during this most fraught of election years. The shooting […]
Miami men with Ukrainian political ties laundered money, DOJ says
The Department of Justice filed civil forfeiture complaints this week in Miami federal court accusing two Ukrainian oligarchs and their Miami-based associates of stealing money abroad and laundering it in the United States by moving it through a Ukrainian-owned bank and into Miami companies operating as “slush funds” for real […]