A global advertising association said it is suspending the operations of a unit focused on brand safety two days after Elon Musk’s social media company, X, sued the group, alleging it organized an illegal ad boycott. The World Federation of Advertisers, or WFA, confirmed Thursday that it would halt its nonprofit initiative Global Alliance for Responsible Media. GARM was started in 2019 in part to help advertisers avoid having their promotions show up alongside content they deem...

A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted voting-machine company Smartmatic's president and founder Roger Piñate on bribery and money-laundering charges in order to get election contracts in the Philippines. Smartmatic's voting machines have been used in Venezuelan and Philippine presidential elections, and was founded in 2000, but didn't take off until the Venezuelan election in 2004, when Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez chose the company to replace the country's previous...

In introducing her pick for vice presidential running mate, Kamala Harris has prominently touted Tim Walz’s 24 years of service in the Army National Guard. Now, however, GOP vice presidential nominee JD Vance and the Trump campaign are attacking Walz on his military record, accusing the Minnesota governor of “stolen valor.” We’ll sort through the facts surrounding the three main attacks on Walz’s military record and let readers decide their merit. The claims include: Vance claimed that...

Tim Walz helped Kamala Harris fire up the base on his Midwestern home turf. Now, Democrats are about to find out how he plays outside that region. The new running mates are turning their attention from the Rust Belt to the Sun Belt — testing whether Walz’s folksy, Midwestern brand can resonate beyond middle America. Harris’ campaign is betting that Walz’s biography — he is a former schoolteacher and football coach who grew up in small-town Nebraska, served in the Army National Guard...

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has announced a temporary ban on X (formerly Twitter) in the country. The decision followed his war of words with the platform’s CEO, Elon Musk, who has accused Maduro of election fraud. In a televised speech on Thursday, Maduro accused the tech mogul of “inciting hatred, fascism, civil war, death, [and] confrontation of Venezuelans,” as well as violating national laws. The leader added that he has signed a resolution presented by the National...

Democrats are warning that Vice President Harris needs to solidify her economic message before former President Trump ties her to a narrative that plagued President Biden while he was the nominee.   Before Biden’s withdrawal from the race last month, the economy was the dominant issue for voters, with a string of polls indicating that Trump was winning on that matter. The surveys concluded that voters trusted Trump on economic issues more than they trusted Biden...

Sen. Joe Manchin (I-WV) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) have their fair share of disagreements about policy and politics. But they both agree that Tim Walz is an excellent vice presidential nominee. “Gov. Walz is the real deal,” Manchin gushed, saying he’d “bring balance back to the Democratic Party.” Walz is “a uniter for not just the Democratic Party but for the entire United States,” Ocasio-Cortez claimed. The fact that Walz appeals to two of the most...

Retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Blaine Holt told Newsmax on Thursday that Democrats underestimated how big a deal stolen valor is to the military veteran community and how much offense veterans take when allegations of stolen valor surface such as those against Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. Vice President Kamala Harris, who is running for president, announced Walz as her running mate for the Democrat ticket on Tuesday. "What I think ... is they underestimated how truly big...

Donald Trump’s assertion that as president he should have more say over how the Federal Reserve sets interest rates would, if carried out, reverse a longstanding custom by which the central bank enjoys political autonomy to fight inflation with often unpopular rate increases. Asked at a Thursday press conference if he should have a say over how the Fed makes interest rate decisions, Trump said, “I feel that the president should have at least [a] say in there, yeah, I feel that...

On August 9, 1974, President Richard Nixon deviated from his usual health-conscious breakfast of wheat germ, cottage cheese and fruit and instead ordered up an unctuous spread of corned beef hash with a poached egg. Bleary-eyed from lack of sleep — he had spent the night calling old friends and fine-tuning his farewell speech — he decided to indulge one final time. Then he traded his fork for a pen and signed his last document as president, a one-line note that read, “I hereby...