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Steve Ballmer: the tech billionaire asking if voters want ‘just the facts’
Former Microsoft boss seeks to build better democracy with dataWorld - Financial Times - November 2 -
How Steve Ballmer brought the Clippers' Intuit Dome to life
Ballmer's $2B investment makes its NBA debut as the Clippers open the regular season at the Intuit Dome.Sports - ESPN - October 23 -
Elon Musk asks voters to brace for 'hardship' as billionaire plans deep spending cuts from potential Trump cabinet post
In the home stretch of the 2024 election, voters who’ve been weighing both campaigns’ proposals to tackle living costs are now hearing a new pitch from the Republican side: accept some short-term ...Top stories - NBC News - October 30 -
Steve McQueen on his second world war epic ‘Blitz’: ‘I just wanted to tell the truth’
His blockbuster shows wartime London in a new light — and might be his most personal film yetBusiness - Financial Times - November 2 -
Want to understand what just happened? Try talking to Trump voters for a change.
Democrats should engage in conversations with Trump voters to understand why they voted for him, rather than making assumptions about them.Politics - The Hill - November 6 -
An excess of billionaires is destabilising politics – just as academics predicted
Politicians have always courted the wealthy, but Elon Musk and co represent a new kind of donor, and an unprecedented danger to democracy. The concept of “elite overproduction” was developed by ...World - The Guardian - October 31 -
Trump falsely claims noncitizen voter fraud is widespread. Here are 5 facts.
Voter fraud by noncitizens is very rare and does not occur in numbers that could swing a federal election, studies show.Politics - CBS News - October 30 -
A Tech Pioneer Reflects on Steve Jobs’s Advice to Let Go and Embrace Change
Geomagic founder Ping Fu tells ‘Your Next Move’ how she embraces change.Business - Inc. - November 6 -
Trump Asked for Power. Voters Said Yes.
This was a conquering of the nation not by force but with a permission slip. Now, America stands on the precipice of an authoritarian style of governance never before seen in its 248-year history.Top stories - The New York Times - November 6 -
Fact Checking False Voter Fraud Claims About Votes Exceeding Eligible Voters
The number of votes cast in presidential elections has always been less than the number of eligible voters.Business - The New York Times - October 31 -
Steve Borthwick opts for continuity but wants fast and furious England | Robert Kitson
The head coach has made just four starting changes against New Zealand and has picked a forward-centric bench. Far-reaching implications, pivotal decisions, an expectant nation. But let’s not dwell ...World - The Guardian - October 29 -
Steve Kornacki: The persuadable voters Trump and Harris are trying to win over
With less than two weeks before Election Day, NBC News National Political Correspondent Steve Kornacki joins Meet the Press to break down the state of the presidential race.Politics - NBC News - October 27 -
Steve Kornacki: The key voter shifts that led to Trump's battleground state sweep
For Donald Trump, there’s a clear story that runs through each of the seven battleground states that he swept on his way to recapturing the White House.Top stories - NBC News - 4 days ago -
Big Tech Wants You Back in the Office
What’s really behind these return-to-office mandates?Tech - Wired - November 7 -
Billionaires like Elon Musk don’t just think they’re better than the rest of us – they hate us | Zoe Williams
The ultra-wealthy talk about solving the climate crisis or ending inequality. But what they’re really interested in is outliving or escaping anyone poorer than them. Nearly three years ago, I ...World - The Guardian - November 11 -
Trump 2.0 Officially Makes Crypto Mainstream. Just Ask Investors
Bitcoin’s post-election rally has fueled stock-market winners like MicroStrategy and Coinbase.Business - Inc. - November 13 -
Latino men just didn't want a woman president
No, it wasn’t "the Economy, stupid." Speaking as a Black man born into a Spanish-speaking family, let me tell you what last week’s election was really about. It was about millions of men — many ...Politics - The Hill - November 11 -
Apple’s Steve Jobs was a rare breed — here’s why many charismatic tech CEOs fail
Should you work at that startup? Should you invest in it? Here’s what you need to know.Business - MarketWatch - October 26 -
Virginia asks Supreme Court to greenlight 1,600 voter roll removals
Virginia asked the Supreme Court on Monday to greenlight the removals of more than 1,600 people from the state’s voter rolls. State officials say the individuals are noncitizens, but the Justice ...Politics - The Hill - October 28 -
Some Black Voters Ask, What Have Democrats Done for Us?
In interviews, these voters, especially men, questioned what dividends have come from their loyalty: “I’m just kind of over it all.”Top stories - The New York Times - November 12 -
On Transgender Issues, Voters Want Common Sense
Rather than pushing Americans in a direction they oppose, Democrats should endorse nuanced and humane alternatives.Top stories - The New York Times - November 14 -
The Toymaker Who Wants to Be the Next Willy Wonka of Sex Tech
As the industry looks to AI and robotics for the next big thing, Our Erotic Journey’s James Guo just wants to build you the perfect vibrator.Tech - Wired - November 3 -
What Big Tech CEOs want from a second Trump presidency
Leaders of Silicon Valley’s giants hope for a more permissive attitude on deals, antitrust and AI in the next administrationWorld - Financial Times - November 7 -
Big 12 review says league games were not compromised by helmet communication issues after Texas Tech inquiry
The Big 12 has told its members to send in helmet communication equipment for encryption updatesSports - CBS Sports - October 31 -
D'Angelo Russell moves to Lakers bench, says he just 'wants to win'
JJ Redick praised D'Angelo Russell, who had one of his best shooting nights of the season Friday after moving to the Lakers' bench.Sports - Yahoo Sports - November 9 -
A right to life, but not to die — it’s not just women’s bodies MAGA wants to control
What just happened in West Virginia is unprecedented.Politics - The Hill - 3 days ago -
This chart pinpoints the moment American voters started getting upset about the economy
MarketWatch ran a regression of key economic variables, against the long-running University of Michigan consumer-sentiment index, to see if attitudes had changed.Business - MarketWatch - November 6 -
Older voters came out in droves — but they were just as split as the rest of the country
Older voters have always been influential and dependable voters and that was no different this election season.Business - MarketWatch - November 6 -
'Sobering, frustrating': Being a first-time NFL head coach can be tough; just ask these 4
The Patriots, Titans, Panthers and Seahawks are led by first-time head coaches, and growing pains are evident.Sports - ESPN - October 30 -
My mother nursed a life-affirming 25-year grudge. Hard as I try, I don’t have the attention span | Zoe Williams
It turns out long-held resentments exist even in the animal kingdom. Does that mean they hold an evolutionary advantage?. The best thing that happened to me during the whole of the pandemic was a ...World - The Guardian - November 3 -
UC San Diego, Tsinghua University researchers just made AI way better at knowing when to ask for help
UC San Diego and Tsinghua University researchers develop breakthrough AI method that teaches small language models when to use tools versus internal knowledge, achieving 28% better accuracy while ...Tech - VentureBeat - November 4 -
Those who try to emulate Teflon Trump often come unstuck – just ask Gaetz
The fall of the Florida congressman who was accused of sexual misconduct proves there is one rule for Trump and another for everyone else. When he ran for US president in 2016, Donald Trump boasted ...World - The Guardian - 2 hours ago -
Do voters really want another four years of Biden-Harris policies?
Kamala Harris is offering to continue the Biden-Harris administration's incompetence, which has led to high inflation, a softening jobs market, and an axis of evil in the Middle East.Politics - The Hill - October 25 -
What Georgia election officials want voters to know about 2020 claims
Georgia election officials Brad Raffensperger and Gabriel Sterling were among the Republicans pushing back against claims of fraud in 2020. They're still fighting against conspiracy theories.Top stories - CBS News - November 3 -
Swing-state voters want to know: What’s going on with Social Security?
Social Security’s trust fund is expected to be depleted in 2033. Where is the solution?Business - MarketWatch - November 5 -
Trump has pledged to wage war on planet Earth – and it will take a progressive revolution to stop him | George Monbiot
Voters have never been swayed by ‘rational debate’. Only a genuine change in the way we do politics can prevent the march of the right. We were losing slowly. Now we are losing quickly. Democracy, ...World - The Guardian - November 7 -
Trump was right, voters want decisions about abortion to be made locally
Donald Trump's position on abortion, which favors state-level decisions, was supported by voters in several states, including Montana, Nevada, and Arizona, who voted to expand abortion rights while ...Politics - The Hill - November 13 -
Harris will ask voters to 'turn the page' on Trump era at the site of his Jan. 6 speech
Kamala Harris will hold a rally Tuesday near the White House — the site where Donald Trump spoke on Jan. 6, 2021.Top stories - NBC News - October 29 -
Raffensperger asks X to take down 'false' video purporting to show voter fraud
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) said that his office asked Elon Musk, the owner of X, and the leadership of other social platforms to take down a video purporting to show a ...Politics - The Hill - November 1 -
Billionaires see the stakes of election
Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy The Big Story Billionaires with business interests riding on election For billionaires who have ...Politics - The Hill - October 31
