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When Vice President Kamala Harris took the reins of the Democratic nomination in late July, something happened in North Carolina. Part of the Harris campaign strategy in North Carolina, according to a campaign official, includes attempting to bulk up turnout not just among Black voters but among women in and around the suburbs. For the week after Harris became the presumptive nominee, there was a 61.5% increase in voter registration among North Carolina women. Bonier takes all of this to point to a higher turnout of Democratic voters in North Carolina. “The way you win statewide in North Carolina,” he said, “is you win on the margins.”

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☆ Elon Musk's X is the least-trusted Big Tech company, according to a survey — on par with the US government
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-21 | by ( Lauren Edmonds | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewAmericans think Elon Musk's X is as trustworthy as the US government. EMARKETER, a market research company owned by Business Insider's parent company, shared the survey data on Friday. AdvertisementEven fewer — only 28% of respondents — however, trusted X, the same percentage that trusted the US government. Musk's post immediately drew backlash for promoting political violence, prompting him to delete it and defend himself, calling it a "joke." The US Secret Service told Bloomberg News it is "aware" of Musk's post and is investigating the matter.

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☆ As threats grow, funds for election security see a squeeze
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-21 | by ( Bob Ortega | Anna-Maja Rappard | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +17 min

That’s why Maricopa County has spent over $864,000 in federal funds and more than $3 million in county funds to bolster its election security and processes over the past four years. Officials readily shared their worries with CNN, citing death threats, harassment, baseless lawsuits, onerous public-records requests and various security threats spurred by false claims about voter fraud. Amid these challenges, budgets for election security have been squeezed in several ways. Thousands of election workers across the country have reported receiving harassing, offensive or hostile communications, including since the 2022 midterms, according to the Department of Justice’s Election Threats Task Force. As recently as Tuesday, Trump threatened to prosecute and imprison election officials if he wins in November, as he cast doubt on the integrity of the upcoming election.

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☆ U.S. to propose barring Chinese software, hardware in connected vehicles: Reuters
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-21 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

The U.S. Commerce Department is expected on Monday to propose prohibiting Chinese software and hardware in connected and autonomous vehicles on U.S. roads due to national security concerns, sources told Reuters. The Biden administration has raised serious concerns about the collection of data by Chinese companies on U.S. drivers and infrastructure as well as the potential foreign manipulation of connected vehicles. The proposed regulation would ban the import and sale of vehicles from China with key communications or automated driving system software or hardware. The department plans to give the public 30 days to comment before any finalization of the rules, the sources said, adding that the department plans to propose making the prohibitions on software effective in the 2027 model year and the prohibitions on hardware would take effect in January 2029. The Commerce Department declined to comment on Saturday.

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☆ Every Falsehood, Exaggeration and Untruth in Trump’s and Harris’s Stump Speeches
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-21 | by ( Linda Qiu | Elena Shao | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +54 min

They’re going to take away your guns, you saw that, they’re going to take away your guns. And at the end it was, “Thank you, thank you, thank, thank, thank, thank, thank, thank.” I said, “What the hell’s… What’s wrong with her?” I say, “Thank you.” And you wait a couple of seconds. “Thank you, thank, thank, thank, thank.” There’s something wrong with her, okay? She was all talk, I’m going to do this and I’m going to do that, and then I’m going to cut tax and then I’m going to give you 25,000 per house and then I’m going to go, over and over. When Biden was president — going to give up the whole thing to Russia, it looks like.

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☆ Trump rallies in North Carolina as controversy engulfs his handpicked candidate for governor
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-21 | by ( Eric Bradner | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Robinson, the current North Carolina lieutenant governor, referred to himself as a “black NAZI,” expressed support for reinstating slavery, made repeated graphic sexual comments and more. Trump defeated Joe Biden by 1 point in North Carolina in 2020. North Carolina is an vital part of that plan. However, the lieutenant governor has been to most, if not all, of Trump’s recent North Carolina events. The question, though, is whether a poor performance by Robinson would drag down other members of the party’s ticket in North Carolina, including Trump.

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☆ Brazil court asks X for documents as the platform starts to comply with orders
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-21 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

X was shut down in Brazil in late August after it did not comply with orders from the top court related to hate speech moderation in the social platform. X lawyers said late on Friday that the platform had named a legal representative in Brazil, addressing a key demand imposed by the court. In a Saturday decision, Supreme Court judge Alexandre de Moraes gave five days for X to provide commercial registries and other documents proving that X formally signed Rachel de Oliveira Conceicao as its Brazil legal representative. Brazilian law requires foreign companies to have a legal representative to operate in the country. X had a legal representative in Brazil until mid-August, when it decided to close its offices and fire its staff in the country.

Persons: Elon Musk, Alexandre de Moraes, Rachel de Oliveira Conceicao, Musk, Moraes Organizations: Brazilian, Saturday Locations: Brazil

☆ Residents of one European city just voted Airbnb out of their neighborhood
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-21 | by ( Dan Latu | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewResidents of a bustling neighborhood in downtown Budapest, Hungary, have voted to ban Airbnb-style rentals. The move comes as a growing list of European cities have cracked down or plan to levy restrictions on short-term vacation rentals. The mayor of Terézváros, Tamás Soproni, cheered the vote as a sign that residents were reclaiming the district. There are currently over 15,000 short-term rental listings in the city of Budapest, according to analytics site AirDNA. Terézváros' ban will need to be approved by Hungary's Parliament, but the national government has made it easier for local governments to hold these kinds of referendums on Airbnbs.

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☆ How Elon Musk and X got into a messy situation in one of its biggest markets
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-21 | by ( Ana Altchek | Lakshmi Varanasi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Go to newsletter preferencesSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Read previewElon Musk hasn't shied away from fights since he bought Twitter and renamed it X in 2022. However, the disagreement over moderation on X has blown up, leading to threats of arresting X employees and restrictions on other companies owned by Musk. X was then banned from Brazil on August 31 after failing to follow orders to name a legal representative for X. AdvertisementBrazil's Supreme Court fines X for resurfacing amid banBrazil fined X after some of its users were able to access the site on Wednesday, September 18, despite the ban issued in August, according to the BBC.

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☆ How reproductive rights, Greek life, and celebrity endorsements could prove key to Kamala Harris' bid for women voters
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-21 | by ( Rebecca Rommen | Nathan Rennolds | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

And it seems to be going well for the vice president so far. AdvertisementA key area closely connected to gender voting patterns — and which has helped tip elections toward the Democrats in recent years — is abortion rights. AdvertisementWomen-led political action committees (PACs) and organizations have also been rallying behind the vice president over the issue. The vice president is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha, the US's oldest Black sorority and part of the National Pan-Hellenic Council — more commonly known as the Divine Nine. Black women are also getting behind Harris' running mate, Tim Walz, who has established himself as a reproductive rights messenger in his own right.

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☆ Elon Musk abandons his fight in Brazil
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-21 | by ( Katie Balevic | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Elon Musk's X has tapped out in its fight with Brazil's Supreme Court. Musk's lawyers say X has finally complied with court orders after months of resistance. Go to newsletter preferences Thanks for signing up! AdvertisementElon Musk, the owner of X, has finally relented after a lengthy and contentious fight with Brazil's Supreme Court. Musk had for months defied court orders to suspend certain accounts the court had deemed a threat to the country's democracy and to appoint an in-country government liaison.

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“There’s only one explanation for this staggering difference in maternal mortality,” said Nancy L. Cohen, president of the GEPI. “All the research points to Texas’ abortion ban as the primary driver of this alarming increase.”“Texas, I fear, is a harbinger of what’s to come in other states,” she said. Among Hispanic women, the rate of women dying while pregnant, during childbirth or soon after increased from 14.5% in 2019 to 18.9% in 2022. While maternal mortality spiked overall during the pandemic, women dying while pregnant or during childbirth rose consistently in Texas following the state’s ban on abortion, according to the Gender Equity Policy Institute. Tatum, who was not involved with the GEPI study, said that requests for sterilization procedures among her patients doubled after the state’s abortion ban.

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I said, I think you’re better than Martin Luther King. I think you are Martin Luther King times two.”Given Robinson’s documented history of bombastic comments, King’s oldest child, Martin Luther King III, said in a statement Thursday that he was not surprised by the reported comments allegedly made about his father. “We won’t glorify anyone or anything that comes against the work and the legacy of Dr. King. “It is an affront to the legacy and the ministry of Dr. King, but also to the Black church, and to humankind in general,” Scott said. “I think that what he did as well as what Donald Trump did in calling Mark Robinson ‘Martin Luther King on steroids’ is really a misappropriation of the work that King has done.

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☆ China and Japan end dispute over Fukushima water discharge
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-20 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +1 min

BEIJING — China and Japan reached a consensus in August on the discharge of radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear plant, the Chinese foreign ministry said Friday, bringing to an end a diplomatic dispute that had rumbled on for over two years. Beijing called the release “a major nuclear safety issue with cross-border implications,” when Tokyo started discharging treated radioactive water from the site in August 2023. It also announced a blanket ban on all aquatic products from Japan. But Mao Ning, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson, later said that both countries reaching consensus “does not mean that China will immediately resume imports of Japanese aquatic products,” at a regular news conference in Beijing. “We will carry out technical consultations with the Japanese side and gradually resume the import of Japanese aquatic products,” she added.

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But that has not stopped Trump from recycling some of the same dark portents about a Kamala Harris presidency. Even God was not safe from a Biden presidency, Trump warned. You’re going to have to learn to speak Chinese,” Trump told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt in August 2020. "She wants no Merry Christmas," Trump said. The suburbs are also doomed if Harris wins, Trump told rallygoers last week in Tucson, Arizona, warning that Harris' team "wants to abolish the suburbs."

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☆ What TikTok ban? Advertisers, employees, and creators seem unfazed by its increasingly precarious future
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-20 | by ( Lara O'Reilly | Dan Whateley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

A former Department of Justice attorney told Business Insider this week that the court seemed poised to rule against TikTok. AdvertisementMany TikTok creators appear unconcerned by the prospect of a ban. Others are fighting it: In May, a group of eight TikTok creators filed a lawsuit against the US government over the potential ban. TikTok users turn to the app for more than just entertainment. The current TikTok staffer told BI that they felt that advertisers were paying less attention to TikTok ban news as they've been busy gearing up for the holiday season.

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☆ Harris puts abortion rights at the center of her campaign
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-20 | by ( Zachary B. Wolf | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CNN —A fired-up Vice President Kamala Harris adopted a rapid-response mentality to seize on the key issue of abortion rights this week. Harris’ strength on abortion rights is built on key groups that she hopes will show up in droves for her on Election Day. Among Black voters, 83% trust Harris, and among Hispanic voters, it was 63%. Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg/Getty ImagesWill men consider abortion rights when they vote? Abortion rights may not be a motivating issue for men.

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☆ Kamala Harris is a gun owner. Here is what we know
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-20 | by ( Mj Lee | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

“I am a gun owner, and I own a gun for probably the reason a lot of people do – for personal safety,” Harris, then a California senator, told reporters in Iowa. Harris’ office declined to share what year she first became a gun owner or any other details about the firearm and her ownership of it. But she did not run from her values on assault rifles and assault weapons,” the adviser said. Trump, Harris’ Republican opponent, is also a self-proclaimed gun owner. Walz, the Minnesota governor and Harris’ running mate, is also a gun owner.

Persons: CNN — Kamala Harris, Donald Trump’s, Harris “, “ Tim Walz, We’re, Harris, Oprah Winfrey, they’re, ” Harris, “, ”, don’t, Harris ’, –, Tim Walz’s, Frankie Vanloock’s, Francisco Ortiz, Frank Green, Dr, Jose Rosas, Trump, Walz, Ohio Sen, JD Vance Organizations: CNN, Democratic, Naval Observatory, Trump, Republican, New York City Police Department, Philadelphia TV Locations: Michigan, Los Angeles, Washington, California, Iowa, Alameda County, New York, Minnesota

☆ She claimed she aborted her baby at nine months. In this country, there’s no law against that
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-20 | by ( Lex Harvey | Gawon Bae | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

Protesters hold placards reading 'Abolish punishment for abortion' as they protest South Korean abortion laws in Gwanghwamun plaza in Seoul on July 7, 2018. efired/iStockphoto/Getty ImagesBy not passing abortion laws, the National Assembly is “not doing its job,” said Cho Hee-kyoung, a law professor at Hongik University in Seoul. Changing attitudes to abortionDespite the country previously having highly restrictive abortion laws, abortion has not historically been the lightning rod in South Korea that it has been in the United States. If overpopulation had once prompted the government to push abortions, South Korea was now dealing with the opposite problem. It is impossible to know the true number of abortions that take place each year in South Korea because the procedure is unregulated.

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☆ TikTok's global head of marketing is leaving as part of a reorg. Read the leaked memo to staff outlining the changes.
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-20 | by ( Dan Whateley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Read previewKate Jhaveri, TikTok's head of global marketing, is leaving the company this month as part of a leadership shake-up, according to an internal memo shared with staffers. "Together, we decided the best way to achieve this vision is to remove the head of global marketing role, and bring everyone within Global Brand & Comms under one leader." Its former VP of global communications, Hilary McQuaide, exited the company that same month, the executive posted on LinkedIn. Together, we decided the best way to achieve this vision is to remove the head of global marketing role, and bring everyone within Global Brand & Comms under one leader, aligning our work and goals toward one comprehensive vision. AdvertisementFinally, we are also making a change to our social media team to enable a more scalable model for Global Brand & Comms.

Persons: —, Kate Jhaveri, Zenia Mucha, Mucha, Jhaveri, Zuber Mohammed, Hilary McQuaide, ByteDance, Kate, Dexter Fedor, Manish Gupta, Alistair Lennie, Zuber, Alastair Boyle, Jordan Guo, Carol Baracat, Helen Lawrence, Erin Fors Organizations: Service, Global, Business, Disney, NBA, LinkedIn, CSR, AMS, EMEA, Global Brand Locations: Beijing

☆ Sanctioned tankers are back to transporting Russian oil in a blow to the West's efforts to restrict crude flows
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-20 | by ( Jennifer Sor | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The nation loaded at least 17 cargoes of oil and oil products onto ships sanctioned by the West. Another 20 sanctioned ships are still idling by Russia's coasts and ports, the outlet said. A dozen sanctioned ships were known to load Russian crude and crude products in August and September, up from just one sanctioned ship recorded in April, the outlet reported. Another 20 sanctioned tankers are known to be idling near Russia's coasts or anchored at Russian ports, the report added. Falling crude prices also appear to be hitting Russia's oil trade.

Persons: —, Putin Organizations: Bloomberg, West, Service Locations: Russia, Moscow, Belgorod, China

☆ Exclusive: Harris campaign launching new ad seeking to tie Trump to Mark Robinson
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-20 | by ( Alayna Treene | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

This is the first Harris campaign ad tying Trump to a down-ballot campaign, the Harris campaign told CNN. The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the new ad. In a statement to CNN following Thursday’s KFile reporting, Trump campaign spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said, “President Trump’s campaign is focused on winning the White House and saving this country. We will not take our eye off the ball.”The Trump campaign has so far declined to weigh in specifically on CNN’s reporting about Robinson’s controversial comments. Before the CNN story was published, Trump’s campaign had not invited Robinson to Trump’s Saturday event, and sources noted that decision was likely to hold.

Persons: Kamala Harris ’, Donald Trump, Mark Robinson, Robinson, Harris, Trump, intersperses, ”, Martin Luther King ”, Walz campaign’s, Roe, Wade, Harris ’, Amber Thurman, Candi Miller, ” Harris, Walz, Jen O’Malley Dillon, “ Trump, ” O’Malley Dillon, Karoline Leavitt, Trump’s, Biden, “ Martin Luther King Organizations: CNN, North, Republican, Labor, White, Trump Locations: North Carolina, Georgia, Wilmington , North Carolina, Asheville, Asheboro

☆ Why Kamala Harris is heading to Georgia to speak about reproductive rights
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-20 | by ( Priscilla Alvarez | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

A Georgia mother died in 2022 from a treatable infection due to delays to her medical care stemming from the state’s restrictive abortion law, nonprofit news outlet ProPublica reported. According to ProPublica, Miller’s family told a coroner she did not seek care because of laws around pregnancy and abortion. The family shared their story and engaged with the vice president in an emotional moment. The Harris campaign is hoping the political saliency of reproductive rights can help galvanize voters ahead of Election Day. Last week, the Harris campaign launched an abortion-focused ad, capitalizing on what officials said was a pivotal exchange between Harris and Trump.

Persons: Kamala Harris, “, Harris, Joe Biden’s, ”, Biden, Roe, Wade, Amber Nicole Thurman, ProPublica, Candi Miller, Miller’s, Thurman’s, Oprah Winfrey, Trump, Hadley Duvall Organizations: CNN, Democratic, Republican, Tennessee Republicans, Harris, New York Times, Siena College, Trump Locations: Georgia, Nashville, Florida, Arizona, North Carolina

"If he drops out of the race, it helps the state of North Carolina," added Jackson, who is running to be the state's next attorney general. Under state law, if Robinson were to end his campaign, the state executive committee of the North Carolina GOP would name his replacement. And in March, during a speech at the National Rifle Association conference, Trump called Robinson “Dr. And he got up and he’s doing fantastically well in North Carolina. And I think he’s going to be the next governor of North Carolina.”

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