If you want to ask Google’s AI chatbot a question about an upcoming election, you will have to do it from a country where there are no elections taking place. TechCrunch has learned that the search giant has started to restrict queries made Gemini when they relate to elections, in any market globally where elections are taking place. The search giant confirmed to TechCrunch that it started rolling out the restrictions on Gemini to limit surfacing answers about… Source link
Read More »Election risk arrives for the ‘Magnificent 7’ trade: Morning Brief
This is The Takeaway from today’s Morning Brief, which you can sign up to receive in your inbox every morning along with: On Monday morning, former President Donald Trump said in an interview, “I consider Facebook to be an enemy of the people.” On Monday, Meta Platforms (META) stock fell 4%. Meta’s decline outpaced the 0.4% drop seen in the tech-heavy Nasdaq to start the week and served as perhaps the first reminder to investors riding the “Magnificent Seven” trade that election risk matters to… Source link
Read More »Trump ‘believes’ he’ll be convicted of overturning 2020 US election in trial this year
Donald Trump reportedly believes he will be convicted of attempting to overturn the result of the 2020 election in a trial later this year. The former president expects a jury in Washington DC will find him guilty of conspiring to “defraud the American people” on four charges that carry a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison, Axios reported on Friday, citing unnamed sources. Such a verdict could throw his reelection campaign into disarray. The trial was scheduled to begin on March 4 and… Source link
Read More »Trump seeks to hold special counsel in contempt for violating pause in election case
By Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Donald Trump‘s lawyers on Thursday asked a judge to hold U.S. Special Counsel Jack Smith in contempt of court, accusing his office of violating an order pausing activity in its prosecution of the former president for trying to overturn his 2020 election defeat. Trump’s legal team said Smith and prosecutors working on the case have disregarded an order from U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan by continuing to turn over evidence to the defense and… Source link
Read More »Election 2023: Virginia ‘Jenna’ Bing to face Chris Hallum in Willoughby Hills mayoral race – The News-Herald
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Read More »Petr Pavel: Ex-general beats populist rival in Czech election – BBC
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Read More »Top trending Google searches 2022: Wordle, election results, more
Wordle, the popular word guessing game, was the top U.S. trending search of 2022. The top trending news topic of the year was election results, with the midterm elections taking place last month. People asked a lot of questions, wondering “what is..” and “how to help…” What a year it was, and amid all the news – good or bad – the one thing Americans wanted to do, or at least attempt, was figure out their daily five-letter word puzzle in six tries. Wordle was the most popular trending… Source link
Read More »Stock futures edge lower as election results in flux
U.S. stocks plummeted Wednesday after three days of gains, as investors mulled over a mixed verdict from the midterm election results and highly anticipated inflation data looms on the docket. The S&P 500 (^GSPC) shed over 2%, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) fell by nearly 650 points, or roughly 2%. The technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) dragged down by almost 2.5%, or 260 points. Investors’ optimism during stocks’ three-day rally was built on expectations that… Source link
Read More »Why the stock market may skip the usual midterm election rally
History shows the stock market loves the period after the midterm elections — but that might not be the case in the wake of this year’s Nov. 8 election. “A lot of things will drive the stock market,” Gargi Chaudhuri, head of iShares investment strategy at BlackRock Americas, said on Yahoo Finance Live. “I don’t want to base it entirely upon the Fed and elections only. … But all else equal, if you are just giving me a hawkish Fed and a divided government, I think it is just going to be… Source link
Read More »Text From Donald Trump Jr. Set Out Strategies to Fight Election Outcome
Donald Trump Jr., left, and Mark Meadows, the White House chief of staff, on Nov. 4, 2020, the day after Election Day, at the White House in Washington. (Doug Mills/The New York Times) WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump’s eldest son sent the White House chief of staff a text message two days after Election Day in 2020 that laid out strategies for declaring his father the winner regardless of the electoral outcome, people familiar with the exchange said Friday. The text, which was… Source link
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