Instagram and Facebook owner Meta is banning RT and other Russian state media networks from its platforms over claims they carried out covert operations to influence social media users. The ban, which was announced on Monday, will block the accounts from Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp and Threads users over the coming days. “After careful consideration, we expanded our ongoing enforcement against ...
Amazon has told its office workers they may no longer work from home except in extenuating circumstances. It comes as Jonathan Reynolds, the UK’s business secretary, said flexible working contributes to productivity, employee resilience, and staff retention. Money blog: Is now a good time to buy an iPhone? Workers need to be judged on outcomes and “not a culture of ...
The White House has called Elon Musk “irresponsible” after he posted on social media that “no one is even trying” to assassinate Joe Biden or Kamala Harris. The billionaire posted the comment on his X social media platform, followed by a thinking emoji. But he later deleted it and said it was intended as a joke. His comment followed the ...
A Jordanian-led programme to help fit prosthetic limbs to thousands of victims of the Gaza war has begun. Two mobile clinics entered Gaza on Monday tasked with helping around 14,000 amputees. Using cutting-edge British designed technology, the doctors hope to be able to fit a functioning prosthesis every hour. The estimated cost of each fitting is around £1,000. “Medical estimates ...
The Kamala Harris campaign sent a signal to deep-pocketed donors Monday by blessing the work of 13 independent groups that could help elect the vice president over the final 50 days through advertising, registration or other voter mobilization efforts. The announcement comes as the Harris campaign remains flush with late-summer cash after raising $615 million in the first six weeks ...
The day after Secret Service agents confronted an armed man near where Donald Trump was playing golf, the former president told Fox News that the rhetoric of Democrats and Vice President Kamala Harris was to blame. “He believed the rhetoric of [President Joe] Biden and [Vice President Kamala] Harris, and he acted on it,” Trump said of Ryan Wesley Routh, ...
From Day One of his presidency to this day, Donald Trump has promoted an alternate reality that has caught on with a shocking proportion of his base. But we don’t often get good polling that shows just how much Trump’s misinformation has penetrated the country. Today, we have such polling. And it’s sobering, if unsurprising. As Trump has launched a ...
The Secret Service is facing new scrutiny after a gunman came within range of former president Trump for the second time in less than 10 weeks on Sunday, raising concerns about whether the elite protective agency is stretched too thin in a politically polarized nation where many people have ready access to guns. “Thank God the president’s OK,” President Joe ...
Soon after Donald Trump became president, authorities tried to warn him about the risks posed by golfing at his own courses because of their proximity to public roads. Secret Service agents came armed with unusual evidence: not suspect profiles or spent bullet casings, but simple photographs taken by news crews of him golfing at his private club in Sterling, Va. ...
Tucked into a fascinating article about partisanship and names in America, The Washington Post’s Andrew Van Dam and Lenny Bronner included a chart that captures a remarkable divide: the split in party identity by gender among younger Americans. The chart, using voter registration data from the firm L2, looked like the one below. At left is the distribution of party ...