Summary List Placement Not everything is going to change after Election Day — or Election Week, or Election Month, or whatever amount of time passes before the country knows how all of November’s races turned out. If elections have consequences and everyone is looking for an edge, it’s easy to turn an election into a […]
Federal records say these journalists gave Democratic politicians money. The journalists say the records are wrong.
Summary List Placement Washington Post media columnist Margaret Sullivan said she would never give money to political campaigns and causes. So she was surprised to learn from Insider that she was listed in federal records as having contributed $500 in 2017 to the campaign of Rep. Rosa DeLauro, a Democrat from Connecticut. “That’s an error,” […]
Trump campaign huffs after Minnesota limits rally to 250
President Donald Trump’s campaign says it will cap his planned rally Friday in Rochester, Minnesota, to 250 people at the insistence of state and local officials. The campaign said: “Thanks to the free-speech-stifling dictates of Gov. Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison, only the first 250 people will be admitted.” The announcement comes as […]
Feed the Polls is trying to make waiting in line to vote on November 3rd more bearable for Americans — and much tastier
Summary List Placement What if democracy was truly free, and gourmet too? A new initiative, Feed the Polls, seeks to untangle how COVID-19, voter suppression, and hunger are playing out in the US today, where 1 in 6 children are food insecure. Business Insider spoke virtually with Chris Stang, co-founder and CEO of The Infatuation, […]
Editorial: Our ballot endorsements are done, now please go vote
Click here for a complete list of our election recommendations. This is an election like none before. Not just the presidential race, but also the way we are voting in California and the makeup of the ballot. Chalk it up to the pandemic and to an accelerated state push for local government elections by district […]
Here’s where you can drop off your ballot or vote in-person
Vote-by-mail ballots that are mailed must be postmarked on or before Election Day and received by your county elections office no later than 17 days after Election Day. There are a lot of other options to drop off your ballots without depending on the Postal Service or to vote in-person: Alameda County • Drop boxes: […]
Donald Trump Jr said that COVID-19 deaths are down to ‘almost nothing’ as 1,000 new deaths recorded
Summary List Placement Donald Trump Jr claimed that deaths from COVID-19 were down to “almost nothing,” on the same day, 1,060 new deaths from the disease were recorded. In an interview with Fox News on Thursday, Trump Jr, who is campaigning for his father, President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign, he claimed, falsely, that the Centers for Disease […]
Steven Pesavento quit his 9-to-5 career to pursue real-estate investing full time. Here’s how he went from a no-experience tech-head to having flipped over 200 properties in a few years time.
Summary List Placement Similar to the many aspiring real-estate investors that came before him, Steven Pesavento — the founder of VonFinch Capital and host of “The Investor Mindset” podcast — suffered from a pervasive feeling of skepticism. And who could blame him? He had no experience, was strapped for cash, and when it came to […]
Kanye West bought Kim Kardashian a talking hologram of her late father Robert Kardashian. The hologram called West the ‘most genius man in the whole world.’
Summary List Placement Musician Kanye West bought wife Kim Kardashian West a hologram of her late father, lawyer Robert Kardashian, to celebrate her birthday. The hologram, made in part using “deepfake” tech, spoke about Kardashian West’s childhood, before saying: “I am so proud of the woman you have become.” It also said she married “the […]
Review: Rom-com? More like a pale imitation of one
By Lindsey Bahr | Associated Press If it didn’t actually exist, “Holidate” would sound like one of those fake movies within a movie. A couple of attractive singles decide on a low-stakes, no-commitment arrangement to be each other’s dates on holidays? It’s a perfect rom-com concept in that it’s equal parts ridiculous and shamefully appealing. […]
For first time, Denver enacts police command center for potential election unrest
Denver’s top officials will launch a police command post in preparation for potential post-election unrest — the first time the city has taken such measures around an election. Public safety officials will stand up their command post on Tuesday, Department of Public Safety Executive Director Murphy Robinson said Thursday in a phone call with reporters. […]
Election Day in Colorado: Here’s how to watch and interpret results — when we get them
The Associated Press State laws and rules vary on when they may count advance votes and which accept mail-in ballots that arrive after Election Day. Keeping cautious tabs on the national picture Nationally, the timing of clear results in the presidential race, and in Senate races that are key to determining whether Republicans hold onto […]