OCTOBER 30, 2020
President Donald Trump gives a campaign speech outside of Raymond James Stadium on Oct. 29, 2020, in Tampa, Fla. - Octavio Jones/Getty Images
President Donald Trump still has a path to a second term. But it would take a polling debacle that would make 2016 look like a banner year.
According to a series of battleground state polls conducted...
OCTOBER 20, 2020
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. - Andrew Harnik/AP
Mark Zuckerberg said Thursday that the US presidential election will be a "test" of Facebook's attempts to prevent misinformation and foreign interference.
Zuckerberg also warned of "civil unrest" following Election Day, echoing a warning he made in September.
His comments come after Facebook has been trying to...
OCTOBER 30, 2020
Election night will be an unusual experience this year. Early results that pop up shortly after the polls close might look very different from the final outcome, because of unprecedented levels of mail-in ballots and early voting due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, supporters of Democratic nominee Joe Biden have shown a strong...
OCTOBER 30, 2020
Netflix is raising the price of its HD standard subscription by $1 to $13.99 per month, marking the first time the streaming giant has raised prices since January 2019.
The 4K premium subscription will jump from $15.99 to $17.99, according to an announcement on Thursday.
Netflix's $8.99 plan, which is not broadcast in high definition, will not see a...
OCTOBER 29, 2020
Bruce Springsteen says the "joyless" Trump White House has made Americans lose "their mojo" and sense of fun.
"There's no art in this White House. There's no literature, no poetry, no music. There are no pets in this White House: no loyal man's best friend, no Socks, the family cat," the "Letter to You" singer said on his...
OCTOBER 29, 2020
Apple CEO Tim Cook. - Jeff Chiu/AP
One of the biggest contributors to Apple’s earnings is in jeopardy: Apple reaps up to $12 billion a year in revenue from Google, which pays the iPhone maker to be the default search engine on Apple devices. As Apple and Google report their quarterly earnings Thursday, analysts have an eye on...
OCTOBER 29, 2020
Wynnton Mott, 19, center, and Faith Ocoko, 19, right, vote early at the Memorial Union on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus in Madison, Wisc. - Lauren Justice/For TWP
The polls indicate that if President Trump wins reelection Tuesday, it’ll probably be because he manages another narrow victory in the electoral college while losing the popular vote, just as...
OCTOBER 29, 2020
Officials said Zeta destroyed many structures and downed more than 200 trees. - Edmund D. Fountain / NY Times
The storm is cutting off electricity all along its path.
Hundreds of thousands of people were without electricity in states across the South on Thursday as Hurricane Zeta barraged through the region with powerful winds, shredding homes and businesses and...
OCTOBER 29, 2020
Do you have what it takes to enter the NASA Lunar Delivery Challenge? - NASA
NASA's Artemis program aims to land astronauts on the surface of the moon in 2024, and eventually create a sustainable base camp on the lunar surface to act as a hub for scientific research and serve as a base for future exploration...
OCTOBER 29, 2020
Outside the Notre-Dame basilica in Nice, France, on Thursday. The attack at the church comes just weeks after the beheading of a teacher near Paris. - Sebastien Nogier/EPA, via Shutterstock
PARIS — Less than two weeks after the beheading of a French schoolteacher, an assailant carrying a knife entered the towering neo-Gothic basilica in the southern city...
