Early voting in Wisconsin slowed by label printing problems
MADISON, Wis. — Early voting kicked off in this battleground state this week with computer delays and long lines. Voters waited as long as three hours Tuesday to cast ballots in West Bend, a city of about 32,000, city clerk…
American creating deepfakes targeting Harris works with Russian intel, documents show
A former deputy Palm Beach County sheriff who fled to Moscow and became one of the Kremlin’s most prolific propagandists is working directly with Russian military intelligence to pump out deepfakes and circulate misinformation that targets Vice President Kamala Harris’s…
A GOP operative accused a monastery of voter fraud. Nuns fought back.
Sister Stephanie Schmidt had a hunch about what her fellow nuns would discuss over dinner at their Erie, Pennsylvania, monastery on Wednesday night. The day before, a Republican operative in the battleground state falsely suggested to his nearly 58,000 followers…
Tucker Carlson says father Trump will give ‘spanking’ at rowdy Georgia rally
DULUTH, Ga. — Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson warmed up the crowd at Donald Trump’s rally here Wednesday night with a dark metaphor, bashing Vice President Kamala Harris and declaring that “dad” was coming home to mete out discipline….
China think tank proposes $280 billion stock market stabilisation fund
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – A Chinese policy think tank has called for Beijing to issue 2 trillion yuan ($280 billion) of special treasury bonds to set up a stock market stabilisation fund, the 21st Century Business Herald reported on Wednesday. Such…
Analysis-Poland leads NATO on defence spend – but can it afford it?
By Gergely Szakacs and Karol Badohal WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland’s NATO-leading surge in defence spending is raising budget concerns because it will bake in higher long-term expenditure on its military – even as Warsaw concedes it faces revenue shortfalls in…