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Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) is rolling out a new feature that will let users avoid all political advertisements on its platform, Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg said Tuesday. What Happened "[For] those of you who've already made up your minds and just want the election to be over,...

Twitter Inc. (NYSE: TWTR) on Thursday took down one of the videos posted by President Donald Trump's 2020 presidential campaign team on its platform. What Happened The nearly four-minute-long video was a tribute from the campaign team to George Floyd, a black Minneapolis man who died in an...

Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that preventing electoral interference is like an “arms race.” What Happened Talking with the BBC’s Simon Jack, Zuckerberg admitted that Facebook was “behind” in the 2016 US presidential election. He said that the...

Tara Reade, a former aide to Joseph Biden, had accused the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee of sexual assault in 1993 when he was a Senator. What Happened Ms. Reade, who worked as a staff assistant for a brief stint in 1993, alleged in an interview with the Associated Press that the...

Former vice-president Joe Biden further secured his position as the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination for 2020 general elections on Tuesday as he won both Florida and Illinois primaries. What Happened Biden polled 61.7% of all votes in Florida at press time, when 97% of all...

A district judge on Wednesday quashed Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard's case against Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOGL) (NASDAQ: GOOG) subsidiary Google LLC. What Happened Gabbard had alleged that Google violated her right to free speech under the first amendment by shutting down the...

The market got something from finance ministers this morning, but not quite what it expected.  Hopes that the Group of Seven (G7) finance leaders would come riding to the rescue with specific policy measures faded away Tuesday. Instead, kind of like the Fed last Friday, the G7 said it’s...

It was a tit for tat — of sorts. On Nov. 12, autonomous trucking startup Ike released a study showing that automating long-haul trucking would lead to an increase in short-haul trucking jobs.  FreightWaves covered that study in an article titled "Fear not the robo-apocalypse." Two days later, on...

State election officials are baffled by a Bloomberg report alleging that Russian hackers compromised the voting systems in 39 states, adding that cybersecurity firms were engaging in scare tactics to win state and local contracts to protect election systems. The June 13 Bloomberg story said that...

CNBC asked some of the top leading executives and CEOs what they think about President-elect Donald Trump. Here is a recap of what the executives had to say: Bill Ackman, billionaire investor and hedge fund manager: "I woke up extremely bullish on Trump. We now have a business man as president,...

  Pre-open movers U.S. stock futures traded lower in early pre-market trade, as Republican Donald Trump scored a spectacular victory over Democratic Hillary Clinton. Data on wholesale inventories for September will be released at 8:30 a.m. ET. Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank President...

The S&P 500 is up about 0.5 percent in Tuesday after a strong performance on Monday. So far, election week is off to a strong start for investors, but tonight’s results could be the biggest stock market catalyst in recent years. SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSE: SPY) and iPath S&P...

The U.S. government announced on Friday non-farm payrolls for the month of October rose 161,000, falling short of the 178,000 figure experts were expecting. However, the numbers were higher than the prior reading of 156,000, which was revised this month higher to 191,000. Benzinga had an...

With just over a month to go before Election Day, investors have heard plenty about which sectors and asset classes could be vulnerable if Democrat Hillary Clinton wins the White House. The same is true of Republican nominee Donald Trump. In fact, many on Wall Street surmise that everything but...