Foreign adversaries are escalating AI-powered influence campaigns to divide Americans and undermine confidence in election processes ahead of the Nov. 5 vote. Foreign adversaries are ramping up efforts to influence American voters—and are likely to try to undermine confidence in the democratic process through Inauguration Day—according to a new intelligence community assessment, which was released
The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled a month ago that candidates’ names may only be struck from the ballot if they die. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., filed an emergency application with the U.S. Supreme Court on Oct. 23, asking the justices to remove his name from the Wisconsin ballot for the Nov. 5 election. Absentee voting
An army of Chinese-controlled social media bots is attempting to influence voters in Alabama, Texas, and Tennessee, while denigrating U.S. Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, according to new research published on Wednesday by Microsoft. The operation represents a coordinated interference effort against down-ballot races, experts say, in which the fake accounts are denigrating U.S. Representative
Our Revolution, the activist group born out of Sanders’s 2016 presidential campaign, ‘sounds alarm over Harris-Walz strategy’ (Scott Olson/Getty Images) Our Revolution, the liberal activist group born out of Vermont senator Bernie Sanders’s 2016 presidential campaign, is publicly feuding with Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris over her decision to tout “endorsements from figures like Liz
Hoffman has given $518,000 since July to Women4Us Inc. Reid Hoffman speaks in San Francisco, California. (Kimberly White/Getty Images for WIRED) A super PAC launched this year to “empower” Republican women to vote against Donald Trump is funded almost entirely by a Democratic megadonor linked to pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, according to campaign finance records. Reid
Housing, abortion, and illegal immigration were some of the top issues. New Hampshire’s gubernatorial candidates are making their final pitches to voters with just two weeks to go until Election Day. At a candidate forum hosted by New Hampshire Public Radio, former Sen. Kelly Ayotte, the Republican nominee, and Manchester’s former Democratic Mayor Joyce Craig
A top “youth gender dysphoria” doctor is delaying the publication of a multi-year study examining the impact of puberty blockers on children’s mental health, voicing concern that opponents of such treatments will “weaponize” the results for political gain. Johanna Olson-Kennedy, a Los Angeles doctor who runs the largest youth gender clinic in the country, told