By Michelle Ye Hee Lee and Anu Narayanswamy The solicitations piled into voters’ email accounts — sometimes multiple times a day. And they carried alarming messages, often in blaring capital letters. “We’re on the verge of BANKRUPTCY.” Follow the latest on Election 2020 “Our bank account is ALMOST EMPTY!” “Trump is INCHES away from firing Robert…

ELON MUSK’S TOTALLY AWFUL, BATSHIT-CRAZY, COMPLETELY BONKERS, MOST EXCELLENT YEAR
In 2020, the COVID-doubting, media-hating Twitterholic CEO became the third-richest man alive, SpaceX launched two astronauts into orbit, and Tesla became the most valuable car company on the planet. Inside the mind of Silicon Valley’s most vainglorious villain. Elon Musk is on a mission. He’s on a mission to Mars. He’s on a mission to…

Pfizer’s Covid Vaccine: 11 Things You Need to Know
What’s the big deal? Was it part of Operation Warp Speed? When can you get one? By Carl Zimmer and Katie Thomas As coronavirus cases surge in the United States and elsewhere, with little relief in sight, the world got good news on Monday. Pfizer and its partner, the German company, BioNTech, announced preliminary results that suggested…

Glenn Greenwald On His Resignation From The Intercept
The Pulitzer winner founded the Intercept to challenge official narratives and protect editorial freedom. When editors abandoned those principles, spiking a controversial story, he was forced to quit Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald quit his job this morning. In a bizarre, ironic, and disturbing commentary on trends in modern media, the celebrated reporter was forced to…

Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided US
Democrat Joe Biden defeated President Donald Trump to become the 46th president of the United States on Saturday, positioning himself to lead a nation gripped by historic pandemic and a confluence of economic and social turmoil. His victory came after more than three days of uncertainty as election officials sorted through a surge of mail-in…

Biden, Trump rally on final day of elections race: Live news
With just a day of campaigning left, the two candidates rally in key states as the bitter presidential race nears an end. US President Donald Trump is set to hold five rallies in four states – North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin – on the final day of campaigning. His Democratic rival Joe Biden will…

HELLO, ‘ANONYMOUS’…
The anonymous senior Trump administration official who wrote a 2018 New York Times op-ed and a subsequent book critical of President Donald Trump is Miles Taylor, he revealed in a statement to CNN on Wednesday. Taylor, who was chief of staff to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, wrote a lengthy statement explaining why he penned…

Ghislaine Maxwell deposition unsealed after court ruling…
**CONFIDENTIAL** Videotaped deposition of GHISLAINE MAXWELL, taken pursuant to subpoena, was held at the law offices of BOIES SCHILLER & FLEXNER, 575 Lexington Avenue, New York, New York, commencing April 22, 2016, 9:04 a.m., on the above date, before Leslie Fagin, a Court Reporter and Notary Public in the State of New York. – -…

France teacher had received ‘days of threats’ before his brutal killing
The teacher who was beheaded in a street in France had received threats after showing controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad to his pupils, French media report. Nine people have been arrested, including the parents of a child at the school where the teacher was working, judicial sources are quoted as saying. The attacker was…

What Year Is It? Fleetwood Mac’s “Dreams” Number 1 on iTunes
What year is it really? 1977? Fleetwood Mac’s “Dreams” is number on i Tunes this morning. Van Halen’s singles take up a third of the top 100. What? “Dreams” has been propelled up the charts thanks to a viral video on TikTok. Nathan Apodaca aka @420doggface208 drinks from a bottle of Cran-Raspberry juice while skateboarding….