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«Twitter is the most direct way to engage with the candidates and issues of this election and to participate in the live, public conversation around its key events,» said Adam Sharp, Twitter's head of news, government, and elections, in a statement.

Up until now, this issue has mostly been watercooler fodder, but with the Federal Reserve having raised rates in December and Donald Trump's election victory causing the 10 - year treasury yield to spike by 19 % since election day, many investors are now reducing their exposure to these rate - sensitive sectors.

And if Republicans block expansion even under a popular governor willing to work with them on the terms, then Democrats can use the issue to beat Virginia Republicans over the head again in the 2019 election.

Hillary Clinton's dizzy spell on Sunday, followed by the revelation she has pneumonia, along with Trump's highly unusual and terse medical disclosure, have made this a central issue in the 2016 election.

Since the November 2012 elections, they see a willingness of Silicon Valley executives to go along with a bigger, more comprehensive reform bill, Emily Lam, senior director of federal issues for Silicon Valley Leadership Group, says.

Despite the fact that Trump was widely viewed as having lost the recent debate with Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, and that the election itself is just over a month away, the candidate chose to tweet not about the political issues in the campaign but about his dislike of former Miss Universe contestant Alicia Machado.

An ad created by the pro-Trump Great America Alliance — a nonprofit «issues» group that isn't required to disclose its donors — casts Comey as a «showboat» who was «consumed with election meddling» instead of focusing on combating terrorism.

After the sweeping Republican election victory on Nov. 9, 2016, transgender people «are concerned for their safety, survival and legal rights in the coming years,» said Chase Strangio, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union who often works on transgender issues.

Obama altered an executive order he issued in April 2015 that allows the US to retaliate against cyberattacks to include those «interfering with or undermining election processes or institutions.»

And now that the time for revisionist history has arrived, and strategists no longer have to serve a political agenda and scare investors and traders into voting with their wallets, the research reports calling for precisely the outcome that we expected are coming in fast and furious, starting with none other than Goldman, whose chief strategist David Kostin issued a note overnight in which he says that «the equity market response to the election result will be limited» and adds that «our year - end 2016 price target for the S&P 500 remains 2100, roughly 2 % below the current level of 2140.»

President Trump took to Twitter again Wednesday to call claims that his campaign colluded with the Russians during the 2016 election a «hoax» and laid out a checklist of issues his administration is working on.

With less than 100 days until the May 9 B.C. Election, the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade has released its 2017 Provincial Election Platform, which outlines key issues and priorities of the regional business community and makes a series of recommendations to the parties running to form the next Provincial Government.

Zuckerberg is facing 44 senators in a rare joint committee hearing to talk about how his company protects user data and deals with elections meddling, among other issues.

I hold out hope that at that time the new parliament will be able to address these important issues with more subtlety than is possible during the heat of an election campaign.

The outsider campaigns of Trump and Sanders, along with the realities of the many people and communities hurt by globalization, have elevated international trade as a major issue in this election.

«Small business is a major force in the U.S. economy, and business regulations and taxes are always a hot issue during elections — it's no surprise with nearly 28 million small business in this country,» said Swanciger.

With half of all U.S. adults already in police facial recognition databases and the 2018 midterm election season upon us, the issue of political data mining feels urgent to Black activists.

The issue has provoked a fierce debate within Facebook especially, with Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg insisting twice in recent days that the site had no role in influencing the election.

SCRANTON — With the primary election two weeks away, two adversaries provided the fireworks as five Democratic House candidates debated Tuesday evening and largely agreed on issues.

The issue looked definitive, of course, way back when Brian Mulroney's Conservatives beat John Turner's Liberals in the epic 1988 election — the campaign so bitterly fought over the trade deal with the U.S. that Mulroney secured at great political risk.

With a provincial election campaign about to begin, GTA REALTORS ® hope that all of the provincial parties will make housing issues a priority.

Fake news was also a key issue in the 2016 vote, with special counsel Robert Mueller indicting 13 Russians in February for using bogus social media accounts to interfere in the election process.

Forget the specifics, for a paragraph, because this is a notable development: while these hearings usually devolve into partisan cliches with the same talking points — Democrats want regulations, and Republicans don't — yesterday Senators from both sides of the aisle expressed unease with Facebook's handling of private data; obviously Democrats tried to tie the issue to the last election, but that made the Republicans» shared concern all - the - more striking.

The issue figures to feature prominently in the next federal election, with Liberal Leader Stà © phane Dion arguing the benefits of a carbon tax, while NDP Leader Jack Layton makes the case that cap - and - trade would do a better job of putting the costs on big polluters rather than on low - income families.

The 2009 election campaign was dominated by economic and financial issues as the province attempts to deal with the global economic slowdown, rising unemployment, and possible government deficits.

This is a public health and public safety issue that we committed to in the election campaign and that we will be moving forward with this summer.»

With trust and accountability having become the defining issues of the election campaign, Mr. Prentice has not presented a compelling reason for Albertans to trust that the PC Party will be any different in the next three years (especially after he called the election one year earlier than the PC Government's fixed election date).

And last month the social network cooperated with Special Counsel Mueller's investigation into Russian election meddling, likely after a warrant was issued.

All of the major companies there — Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft — have increased lobbying and policy operations in Washington since the 2016 election to deal with a Republican - controlled Congress and the Trump administration, whose policies tend to run counter to the tech industry's stances on immigration and other issues.

Revenue and tax reform was a big issue before and during the recent election, with Mr. Prentice and the opposition argued over how best to remove Alberta from the oil revenue roller coaster.

I have a bill with Amy Klobuchar that she and I are doing together, along with Kamala Harris, to be able to work on election security issues.

In Jansen, Notley picked up a politician with nearly identical views on social issues, and both remember how the stench of homophobia doomed the Wildrose in the 2012 election that Alison Redford's progressive Tories won.

New changes by Facebook aim to make it tougher for buyers of political ads and issue ads to interfere with elections.

«Most of the paid ads the Internet Research Agency ran on Facebook prior to the 2016 election didn't mention Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump — but they did mention divisive political issues like guns, LGBT rights, immigration, and racial issues,» said Sen. Mark Warner, D - Va., who along with Sens. Amy Klobuchar, D - Minn., and John McCain, R - Ariz., have sponsored the bill.

«I take issue with the word to a certain degree, so I make a distinction between a capital E and a small e. I was in the Caribbean in 2004, watching the election returns with a group of friends, and when Fox News, in a state of delirious joy, announced that evangelicals had helped sway the election, I realized this word has really been hijacked.

Hoover's vacillation on the issue just before the election did not score many points with editors either (September 21, 1932).

It makes no difference who is in political power with respect to the economy which was the number one issue in the election.

As far as creating opportunities for dialog within your faith communities, I'd recommend starting with a book club, perhaps around a book like Trouble I've Seen by Drew Hart, or The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander, or Assimilate or Go Home by Danielle Mayfield, or Forgive Us by the authors mentioned above — something that's not directly about this election or this presidency, but that addresses issues related to justice.

Only days after the election of Rakotonirina, the FLM's Executive Committee for the General Synod issued a proclamation stating its intention to seek partnerships with the LCMS and the ILC.

In an off - year election with few overarching issues and weakened parties that could not get out the vote effectively, highly partisan and active minorities were able to get their candidates elected.

As part of the survey, researchers looked at how people with evangelical beliefs and churchgoers see the issues at play in the 2016 election.

The allegations have surfaced in historically «red» House districts that turned «blue» during the Democratic waves of 2006 and 2008, with the election of Democrats who claimed to be moderate to conservative on issues like abortion.

He asks us to believe that the U.S. bishops issued a statement called «Political Responsibility» during a U.S. election year that merely rediscovers nineteenth - century German social thought, which by chance offers a political platform that, by sheer coincidence, parallels the U.S. Democratic platform program by program, yet these very bishops are completely immune from influence by the current political constellation in their headquarters» host city of Washington, D.C. Further, this very professor tells us that the problem with Republicans» the party of Ford, Bush, and Dole» is that they are excessively committed to the «unfettered free market» and lack «faith in the government's ability to provide» social benefits, a position he claims is completely contrary to the Catholic faith.

It was a shock, therefore, when the SNP secured a clear overall majority in the 2011 Scottish general election, and it was not long before it agreed with London on a determinative referendum on the issue of complete independence.

As The Nation pointed out after the election, «One out of every four Trump voters voted with the Supreme Court in mind, and it's a safe bet that a very substantial number of those see the Supreme Court through the lens of abortion politics... If you can rally voters around abortion, few other issues matter.»

For the first time in Australia, state elections in Tasmania in 1989 brought five «Greens» into parliament, which resulted in them having the balance of power with the prospect of a major change in direction in environmental issues in that state.

The WSJ heads an editorial this morning with «Why Not Paul Ryan?Romney can win a big election over big issues.

Last presidential election, Gallup found that 21 percent of voters who consider themselves pro-life would choose the candidate who agrees with them on that single issue.

As with any election year, the topic of abortion has been a key issue for religious voters.