In seeking to explain Monday’s sell-off across traditional markets and cryptocurrencies, the digital-asset firm QCP Capital rattled off a list of seven major market events that occurred in Septembers past, from the 1929 stock-market crash to the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy in 2008. There might be some deep human connection with the fall equinox — […]
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Labour Leader Keir Starmer’s speech, in which he suggested his party deserved to lose the 2019 election under Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership, has been ridiculed online as being self-defeating and full of “meaningless platitudes.” “When you lose an election in a democracy, you deserve to,” Starmer said during a Tuesday press […]
A voter stands by for her ballot as people wait more than four hours for early voting Friday in Fairfax, Va. Andrew Harnik/AP hide caption toggle caption Andrew Harnik/AP A voter stands by for her ballot as people wait more than four hours for early voting Friday in Fairfax, Va. […]
The Black Lives Matter activism group has deleted a page called “What We Believe” from its website, disappearing such objectives as disrupting the “Western-prescribed nuclear family structure” as the Nov. 3 election nears. The manifesto was published on BLM’s “What We Believe” page at least as long ago as on […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/15/1080525131_0:93:1389:874_1200x675_80_0_0_ec77ed135911c1d9f31fcc9a8f556966.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sergei Gridnev. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/world/202009211080524920-hungarian-pm-orban-endorses-donald-trump-in-upcoming-us-election/ Earlier this month, Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban expressed support for incumbent US President Donald Trump in the upcoming election after the two officials held a telephone conversation. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has endorsed Donald Trump’s re-election bid in the […]
POTUS has repeatedly hinted that “sleepy” Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden is mentally unfit to be at the helm of the US, while the former vice president’s medical assessment described him as a “healthy” and “vigorous” individual. Speaking at a campaign rally in Fayetteville, North Carolina, on Saturday night, President […]
NPR’s Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks to New Jersey Democratic Senator Cory Booker about the Republican push to replace Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg before the presidential election. Source link
Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins listens during a Senate hearing on Sept. 9. Greg Nash/The Hill/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Greg Nash/The Hill/Bloomberg via Getty Images Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins listens during a Senate hearing on Sept. 9. Greg Nash/The Hill/Bloomberg via Getty Images Maine Republican […]
Scott Ritter, former UN weapons inspector, assesses the outlook for agreement with Iran. Source link
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/12/1080507796_0:320:3072:2048_1200x675_80_0_0_11adb05b15e3efaf0339ad4bd542924d.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Asya Geydarova. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/us/202009181080507762-watch-long-lines-of-early-voters-seen-in-virginia-ahead-of-november-election/ The in-person early voting kicked off in four US states on Friday, with Minnesota – a critical “battleground” state – also registering a high turnout, prior to the visits of presidential candidates Donald Trump and Joe Biden. A large number of […]
Twitter is making a host of new security measures compulsory for accounts belonging to users considered influential in the upcoming election. Source link
Dotcom also bashed Biden over the closure of the file-hosting system Megaupload, which occurred when the latter was the vice president of the United States. As the presidential election in the United States looms closer and closer, Internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom has delivered a verbal jab online against one of […]
Back in October 2016, just several weeks before the US presidential election, several women came forward to accuse Republican candidate Donald Trump of inappropriate sexual behaviour that allegedly took place decades ago. Former model Amy Dorris has accused US President Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her in his VIP box […]
The Senate and House intelligence committees say the director of national intelligence, John Ratcliffe, has agreed to resume face-to-face briefings on threats to the November election. Ratcliffe said last month he was canceling the briefings because the information was leaked to the media. He’s shown here at his confirmation hearing […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107830/84/1078308472_0:0:3640:2048_1200x675_80_0_0_890fe97df5474d4ca4128089ab3574f4.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/world/202009111080430627-tehran-refutes-microsofts-claims-that-iranian-hackers-targeted-us-election-candidates/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Microsoft’s claim that Iranian hackers launched cyberattacks targeting candidates in the upcoming United States presidential election are untrue, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said in a statement to the CNN broadcaster. “United States of America has interfered for decades […]
LA County’s public health chief has come under fire after saying that local schools would not reopen until after the 2020 presidential election, prompting criticism that officials are putting politics ahead of science. The county’s health director, Barbara Ferrer, recently told local educators that schools would remain shuttered until the […]
Supporters can now send the congressman crypto donations via BitPay for his 2020 reelection campaign. Source link
The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) has added three Russian nationals and a host of cryptocurrency addresses to its sanctions list on allegations of election interference. OFAC alleges the three individuals, Artem Lifshits, Anton Andreyev and Darya Aslanova, are employees of the Internet Research Agency (IRA), […]
The US. Treasury Department sanctioned on Thursday one of Rudy Giuliani’s Ukrainian allies for interference in the U.S. elections. Andriy Derkach worked closely with the president’s personal attorney—and with the Trump-friendly cable network, OANN—to push accusations of political misconduct against Joe Biden and his son, Hunter. Derkach, a member of […]
— Woodward reports new details on Russia’s election meddling, writing that the NSA and CIA have classified evidence the Russians had placed malware in the election registration systems of at least two Florida counties, St. Lucie and Washington. While there was no evidence the malware had been activated, Woodward writes, […]
By Gordon Duff and New Eastern Outlook of the Russian Academy of Science (Est: 1816)…Please read this here, at NEO and post to Facebook to get around censors Moscow: Efforts to make it appear like Russia is rigging this year’s presidential election are a danger to the world, a message […]
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Last week, a coalition of leading progressive groups gathered on Zoom to begin organizing for what they envision as the post-Election Day political apocalypse scenario. Put together by the Fight Back Table—an initiative launched after the 2016 election to get a constellation of lefty organizations to work more closely together—the […]
Late last month, British Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak reportedly signaled the Treasury’s readiness for a $40 billion tax hike on the wealthy aimed at filling the gap in the country’s finances caused by the coronavirus crisis. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak […]