Biden gets to work on the pandemic, the CDC adjusts vaccine guidelines, and death tolls rise worldwide. Here’s what you should know: Want to receive this weekly roundup and other coronavirus news? Sign up here! Headlines Biden institutes sweeping pandemic measures during his first days in office Joe Biden has wasted no time when it […]
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State-backed hackers from Iran and China recently targeted the presidential campaigns of Republican President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden, a Google threat analyst said on Thursday. The revelation is the latest evidence of foreign governments attempting to gain intelligence on US politicians and potentially disrupt or meddle in their election campaigns. An Iran-backed group
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Joe Biden is escalating his months-long battle with Facebook. The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee yesterday unveiled an open letter calling on Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg to lay out clear rules for everyone — including President Trump — that prohibit “threatening behavior or lies about how to participate in an election.” He also wants the
Chasten Buttigieg (L) kisses his husband, Pete Buttigieg. Radio Host Rush Limbaugh said Democrats … [+] would be “scared” to nominate him. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images) Getty Images Rush Limbaugh’s taunt about Pete Buttigieg’s sexuality is a tactical error that Democrats should do their best to amplify. Though he artfully couched the comments as
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This time, a coordinated group of Russian accounts that appears to show some links to the Internet Research Agency largely took to Facebook’s photo-sharing app, Instagram, to post content this year about U.S. politics and memes targeting Democratic presidential contenders. The operation demonstrated a sophisticated understanding of the schisms within the Democratic Party as it
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WASHINGTON — A 30-second video ad that ran on Facebook this week falsely accused former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. of blackmailing Ukrainian officials to stop an investigation of his son. “Send Quid Pro Joe Biden into retirement,” a narrator in the ad intoned. The video wasn’t released by the Trump campaign, which has
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Former US Vice President Joe Biden speaks during the First State Democratic Dinner in Dover, Delaware, on March 16, 2019. Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty Images Joe Biden’s presidential campaign is already sunk — at least on Google. Users are reporting that the former vice president’s official 2020 campaign page is nowhere to be
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It seemed as though late-night was going to be all about Game of Thrones and Avengers: Endgame this week. I was all set to write a story about why the woman who was hospitalized in China for crying too hard probably isn’t true when this clip stopped me in my tracks. For an entire monologue,
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