Sentences with phrase «election story of»

(Crosspost) Probably the most jarring election story of 2013 was the successful recall of two Democratic state senators in Colorado.

Not exact matches

- The story came to the public in part with the help of the National Enquirer, the same paper that played a prominent role in Hart's downfall in the run - up to the 1988 Presidential election..

Although no recent First Amendment cases could be seen to apply directly to the publication of tax returns from a candidate for president, lawyer Floyd Abrams said that «all the cases make it extremely unlikely that the Times could constitutionally be held liable for publishing such a newsworthy story, a month before a presidential election, about a candidate for President.»

It mostly contradicts the way they covered the election while it was underway [and] it puts a fair amount of emphasis on news events such as the Comey letter, which leads to questions about how those stories were covered.

But Facebook had apparently been proudly documenting the influence it had on politics, and even reportedly had a section in the «Success Stories» tab on its business site that showed how much of a role the platform had played in elections around the world, according to the Intercept.

According to an excerpt from «Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump» by Yahoo News investigative journalist Michael Isikoff and Mother Jones reporter David Corn, Trump had eagerly hoped Putin would attend the 2013 Miss Universe pageant that Trump hosted in the Russian capital.

«In responding to this incident — indeed in responding to this election — we need to hear each other's stories, not slogans, we need to work towards understanding, not scoring points, and we need to find a way to move forward that respects and values each and every member of our community,» Superintendent Shawn Lewis - Lakin said in a statement.

Correction: A previous version of a chart in this story stated that the Dow Industrial average closed at an all - time high the day after the election, Wednesday.

Colin Barnett's election victory in September 2008 against all the odds is one of the great rags to riches stories in Western Australian politics.

«You know, personally, I think the idea that fake news on Facebook — it's a very small amount of the content — influenced the election in any way is a pretty crazy idea,» he told Techonomy founder David Kirkpatrick, author of «The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company that is Connecting the World.»

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg shrugged off assertions that proliferation of hoax news stories on Facebook influenced the outcome of the U.S. presidential election Thursday during an on - stage interview at the Techonomy conference in Half Moon Bay.

Defending Facebook against charges that its algorithm promoted fake news stories that may have influenced the outcome of the U.S. presidential election, Zuckerberg implied that the company can only go so far without compromising on its commitment to neutrality.

The company is running a promotion closer to November in which it will encourage users to take their kids along when they hit the polls on Election Day, and post «stories» (Winnie's version of Yelp reviews) about their experiences.

The team of investigative reporters has broken a number of stories during the current election campaign, including one that dug up Trump's previous statements about his support for the Iraq War, as well as a piece that provided proof that Sen. Rand Paul (R - KY) plagiarized some of his speeches.

«Part of the reasons active measures have worked in the US election is because the commander - in - chief has used Russian active measures at times against his opponents,» Watts said, pointing to Manafort and Trump's citations of fake - news stories pushed out by Russian - linked entities last year.

They found that the proportion of «professional to junk news» was «roughly one - to - one,» and that «fully 46.5 % of all content presented as news» about politics and the election fell under «the definition of propaganda» when unverified WikiLeaks content and Russian - origin news stories were factored in.

Facebook has come under intense pressure to tackle the spread of false stories, which came to prominence during the U.S. presidential election last year when many inaccurate posts were widely shared on it and other social media services.

Newsweek reporter Kurt Eichenwald, who has written many critical stories about President - elect Donald Trump since last month's election, is claiming that people on Twitter have given him seizures by sending him tweets containing GIFs of strobe lights.

Elliot Schrage, Facebook's vice president for communications and public policy, and David Ginsberg, its director of research, said in a blog post on Monday that the company had made «real progress» in dealing with hoax stories and sham accounts since the 2016 election and the campaign, known as Brexit, to withdraw Britain from the European Union.

We also noticed that a couple of past Tyee stories drew a lot of renewed traffic this election season.

In a related story, Bill Gross, El - Erian's colleague at PIMCO, weighed in on the possible ramifications of Tropical Storm Sandy on the Tuesday's election.

He told the story of a group of Macedonian spammers who tried to sway the Alabama special Senate election but were removed due to the new tools.

Their stories first surfaced in the The Wall Street Journal four days before the election, but got little traction in the swirl of news that followed Mr. Trump's victory.

The Wall Street Journal reported just days before the 2016 election that the National Enquirer sat on a story about Trump having an affair with 1998 Playboy Playmate of the Year, Karen McDougal, in 2006.

Even though other parts of Stormy Daniels's story are corroborated by financial documents and other records — the $ 130,000 payoff she received weeks before the 2016 presidential election, for example — the episodes of intimidation she recounted to 60 Minutes don't yet have evidence to back them up.

But the element of crucial importance to most observers about Daniels's story is that she was allegedly paid $ 130,000 by Trump's lawyer, Michael Cohen, to sign a non-disclosure agreement about the affair, days before the presidential election.

Election night was full of compelling stories — Bloc and Liberal failures, NDP ascent — but it belonged, in the end, to the Prime Minister.

And, indeed, some of the commentary around this news story has queried the value of the entire exposé by suggesting CA's psychometric targeting wasn't very effective — ergo, it may not have had a significant impact on the US election.

Giuliani compounded Trump's problem early this morning by confessing that the payment was made because the story of the affair with Daniels would have hurt Trump's chances in the election.

During the 2017 polls, 90 % of Kenyans had heard or seen fake news stories related to the election, with a cross-section of the population using popular apps like WhatsApp and Facebook to spread misinformation.

The complaints, filed by Common Cause and Free Speech for People, a group that seeks to limit corporate money in politics, argue that AMI paid to bury the story of Trump's infidelity and thereby influence the presidential election.

A White House official has dismissed the story as «old, recycled reports, which were published and strongly denied prior to the election,» while Cohen released a statement signed by «Stormy Daniels» denying an affair and calling reports of a payment «completely false.»

Instead, the complaint says, Cohen waited until October 2016 — when Trump faced the prospect of a news story about his marital infidelity landing shortly before the election.

Amid the political uncertainty in Europe prompted by upcoming elections and the start of Brexit negotiations, another story is quietly playing out, involving improved economic and corporate conditions.

«Imagine if [the Daniels affair] came out on October 15, 2016, in the middle of the last debate with Hillary Clinton,» he said, apparently under the impression that linking the story to its potential electoral consequences would make the money seem less connected to the election.

As Vox's Dylan Matthews pointed out, it's about abuse of power — according to Daniels's account, Trump's wealth gave him the ability to quash a damaging story about himself, at least until after the presidential election.

The Wall Street Journal reported shortly before the 2016 election that the publisher of the National Enquirer, American Media, had paid $ 150,000 for McDougal's story but never ran it.

In the lawsuit filed Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court, Daniels — whose real name is Stephanie Clifford — said she wanted to go public with the story of her affair with Trump in the weeks leading up to the 2016 presidential election.

Interviewed by Meredith MacLeod of The Hamilton Spectator News for a story relating to candidate slates within political elections, September 4, 2014.

But its story from then until now has been one of a steady, stealthy comeback, culminating in the landslide election of May 2014, which brought Narendra Modi (a former RSS higher - up) and the BJP party to power with a large majority in India's powerful Lok Sabha (lower parliament) and in many state assemblies.

Gilson tells the story of how, on the occasion of the twenty - fifth anniversary of his election (March 19, 1902), Leo recalled the main acts of his pontificate.

In this story, unlike so many other passages in the Gospels, we see that God's election of Israel actually has a practical bite to it that makes us very uncomfortable.

In the story of chapter 15 in which Yahweh voluntarily binds himself, and himself alone, in covenant to Abraham, Israel reads her own experience of the exodus from Egypt, Yahweh's voluntary commitment to fulfill the promise inherent in Israel's election.

But the Jacob stories emphasize a central point of interpretation: Israel's election is understood not as merited or earned, but as the free choice of Yahweh, for reasons known only to himself.

In shaping and preserving and cherishing the stories of Jacob as her own story, Israel understood that it was God's election, in which she had no cause to boast.

The election cycle happily fading into the rear - view mirror brought the sorry condition of many white working - class communities to national attention; no one tells the story of one part of that world, its strengths and its pathologies, better than J.D. Vance in Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Harper)-- a tough and occasionally hilarious book that also suggests, inadvertently, an enormous evangelical failure on the part of both Protestants and Catholics.

Judging from the news stories following the election, many of his supporters appear to have had the same reaction — with no sense that the condescension inherent in their candidate's statement helps illuminate the reasons for the election results.

But when it came to the final election, the story in the House was not one of incumbents losing, but of Democratic incumbents being ousted.

The media has lost any semblance of balance, fairness, and reporting the news as they now look to create news, mostly «news» regarding negative stories about conservatives based on lies, rumor and innuendo, such as the alleged McCain affair that the NYTimes ran shortly before the election, or the obviously forged National Guard docs about Bush CBS ran shortly before he was re-elected.

While the volume of Pope stories is tediously repet!tious, the election of the Pope is clearly the most important and newsworthy «religion» story going on right now.