Elections
Watch live: Biden delivers his final foreign policy speech
[The stream is slated to start at 2 p.m. ET. Please refresh the page if you do not see a player above at that time.] President Joe Biden is delivering an address aimed at highlighting his foreign policy achievements in office. The Democratic president’s speech at the State Department in Washington is billed as a […]
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Jeff Bezos enables Trump’s threat to democracy, Washington Post columnist Rubin says as she quits
Jeff Bezos, founder and executive chairman of Amazon and owner of the Washington Post, takes the stage during the New York Times annual DealBook summit at Jazz at Lincoln Center on December 04, 2024 in New York City. Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images Amazon founder Jeff Bezos “and his cronies” are enabling “the most […]
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Croatia’s Milanovic on track to win presidential vote, exit poll says
Croatian President and presidential candidate Zoran Milanovic votes at a polling station during the presidential election, in Zagreb, Croatia, on Dec. 29, 2024. Antonio Bronic | Reuters Croatian President Zoran Milanovic is on track for a landslide victory that will secure him a second term in the largely ceremonial post, an exit poll showed. Milanovic […]
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Why Meta had to ‘bend the knee to Trump’ ahead of his inauguration
Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement this week that Meta would pivot its moderation policies to allow more “free expression” was widely viewed as the company’s latest effort to appease President-elect Donald Trump. More than any of its Silicon Valley peers, Meta has taken numerous public steps to make amends with […]
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Zuckerberg says Biden administration pushed Meta ‘super hard’ to take down vaccine content
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg appears at the Meta Connect event in Menlo Park, California, Sept. 25, 2024. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told Joe Rogan in a podcast published Friday that his company was pressured by the Biden administration to remove content on side effects of Covid vaccines. […]
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Brazil gives Meta 72 hours to explain changes to fact-checking program
Jaque Silva | Nurphoto | Getty Images Brazil’s government will give Meta until Monday to explain the changes to its fact-checking program, Solicitor General Jorge Messias said on Friday. The move comes after the social media company scrapped its U.S. fact-checking program and reduced curbs on discussions around topics such as immigration and gender identity. […]
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Trump to be sentenced in New York for hush money case conviction
Former U.S. President Donald Trump attends his trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments at Manhattan Criminal Court on May 13, 2024 in New York City. Spencer Platt | Reuters President-elect Donald Trump is set to be sentenced Friday morning in his New York criminal hush money case, more than eight years after events […]
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Supreme Court rejects Trump hush money sentencing delay bid
Former U.S. President Donald Trump, alongside his attorney Todd Blanche, speaks to the media as he arrives for his criminal trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments at Manhattan Criminal Court on May 30, 2024 in New York City. Michael M. Santiago | Via Reuters The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday denied a request […]
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Judge scraps Biden’s Title IX rules, reversing expansion of protections for LGBTQ+ students
U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks during the Tribal Nations Summit at the Department of the Interior in Washington, D.C., U.S., December 9, 2024. Elizabeth Frantz | Reuters The Biden administration’s Title IX rules expanding protections for LGBTQ+ students have been struck down nationwide after a federal judge in Kentucky found they overstepped the president’s […]
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Elon Musk promotes far-right Alternative for Germany candidate, hosts discussion on X
Alice Weidel, co-leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) political party, arrives to speak to the media with AfD co-leader Tino Chrupalla shortly after the AfD leadership confirmed Weidel as the party’s candidate for chancellor on December 07, 2024 in Berlin, Germany. Maryam Majd | Getty Images Elon Musk used his social network X […]
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