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Sad Trump cake is the perfect meme to end his campaign

This election cycle has granted us some of our favorite memes of any presidential race, and it seems it still has more to give. Today, ABC news national assignment editor Jason Volack tweeted a photo of a cake being taken into Trump Tower like a G...

10 provocative political novels to read after the election

The long 2016 presidential election should be coming to an end later today, and the uncertainty over the future that has dominated this election cycle has gotten me thinking about the connections between science fiction and politics. Politics are...

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How to follow the 2016 election results online

The end is nigh for the 2016 presidential election. We have but one hurdle left: the outcome. If, like us, you plan to spend your election night in a dark living room hunched over your laptop, we’d like to make the experience a little easier....

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Donald Trump getting booed in his backyard is the 2016 election's moment of zen

Last night I sat in front of my computer for hours with a blank page open, trying to think about how I would finally write a presidential endorsement for The Verge. I wanted to be eloquent, sharp, and timeless — to make a poetic stand In Defense...

4chan may have brought down pro-Clinton phone lines the day before the election

Yesterday, as groups across the country hit the final stretch of their get-out-the-vote campaigns, workers at NextGen Climate noticed some problems with their automated dialer program. As the team started its morning hours, the program used to...

Want a good, healthy cry? Watch the live stream of Susan B. Anthony’s grave

If you don’t really want to watch the news today, I don’t blame you. It’s going to be a run-on sentence of talking heads, messy data, empty punditry, more messy data, “analysis,” man-on-the-street interviews with people who claim they will “storm...

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Please clap for the best presidential election memes

It's hard to imagine my grandparents endured election cycles with nothing more than drawings of animals accompanied by a couple words explaining the metaphor. How grateful I am to live in a time in which one can grab a smartphone, hide under the...

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Is a selfie in the voting booth legal? Check this tool first

One of the most important elections in history has finally arrived. This year, the number of millennial voters has caught up to baby boomers in the electorate, each accounting for roughly 31 percent of the voting-eligible population. Politicians...

One man wants to turn every porn watcher in California into a condom vigilante

Voters in California will make an unprecedented decision on Tuesday about whether to deputize themselves as condom police. The ballot measure is called Proposition 60, and if it passes it will require adult performers to wear condoms in scenes...

10 science issues at stake in the 2016 election

Climate, energy, and health are all on the ballot

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This last-minute voting-machine hack is drawing fire from security experts

Friday afternoon, US election officials got an unpleasant surprise. The security firm Cylance released a report disclosing a new attack on the popular Sequoia AVC Edge voting machine, potentially compromising both the machine’s public vote tally...

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In the final days of the campaign, Trump's aides have taken away his Twitter privileges

As the 2016 election enters the home stretch this weekend, each candidate is working to make their final plea to the electorate by honing their respective messages. In a profile published by The New York Times, it seems that Donald Trump has...

Kate McKinnon and Alec Baldwin break character to urge people to vote

In its last show before the 2016 presidential election, Saturday Night Live checked in with Alec Baldwin’s Donald Trump and Kate McKinnon’s Hillary Clinton one final time before Tuesday, with both actors breaking character to urge voters to head...

The US is reportedly readying cyber attacks if Russia tries to hack the election

In October, news broke that the CIA was preparing options to launch a cyberattack against Russia following revelations that the country was likely behind hacks at the Democratic National Committee earlier this summer. Now, a source has told NBC...

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The FBI is investigating its own Twitter account over allegedly pro-Trump tweets

The FBI’s Inspection Division has launched an internal investigation into a string of tweets from the @FBIRecordsDivision account, according to an exclusive report from ThinkProgress. The account had been inactive for more than a year before this...

Why Trump’s Russian server connection is less suspicious than it sounds

What if a major presidential candidate were in secret communication with Russia, through a secret internet channel kept hidden from the rest of the web? That’s the scenario laid out last night in a Slate report by Franklin Foer. Drawing on DNS (or...

Peter Thiel: what Trump represents is ‘not going away’

Entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel, a self-described contrarian and Donald Trump’s most high-profile supporter in Silicon Valley, has vehemently defended his recent $1.25 million donation to Trump’s campaign and pro-Trump super PACs. In an...

FBI investigating Clinton-linked emails found during Anthony Weiner case

FBI Director James Comey wrote in a letter today that the agency has discovered new emails that may be relevant to its investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server. In an unexpected development, The New York Times has since...

How worried should we be about election hacking?

Already, the 2016 election has been profoundly shaped by hacks. From Hillary’s vulnerable email server to Wikileaks’ string of Russia-linked email dumps, digital security has been one of the major forces driving the news. So far, all the hacks...

Trump campaign using targeted Facebook posts to discourage black Americans from voting

While the Trump campaign continues to flounder weeks before Election Day, a new report is providing some inside information on the candidate's strategy, including an unorthodox use of Facebook.

Trump says Comcast and NBC are poisoning the minds of American voters

In a speech today about his first 100 days in the White House, Donald Trump got more specific about how the universe is allegedly rigged against him. Trump, who has routinely called journalists nasty liars for bringing up his own record, blasted...

Michael Moore in TrumpLand is an earnest case for Hillary Clinton

Michael Moore in TrumpLand is not about Donald Trump, nor the world of his supporters. This might not come across in the first few minutes of the film, a recording of a one-man show performed in Wilmington, Ohio by political humorist Moore. F...

Weird Al moderates the last presidential debate, accidentally opens a portal to hell

Beginning in the 1980s, "Weird Al" Yankovic appeared on MTV with a series of television specials he called AL TV, which featured music videos, sketches, and fake interviews with various celebrities. He resurrected this format beautifully...

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How to watch tonight's final presidential debate: start time, topics, and streaming

Tonight marks the final presidential debate of the 2016 campaign trail, with only a couple of weeks left until election day. Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton’s poll numbers have been rising, but she’s faced scrutiny over leaked emails from...

How to endorse a political candidate on Facebook and lose friends forever

Facebook is a place for making friends, sharing photos, and stoking bitter political arguments that last a lifetime. And while the social network pays a lot of attention to the first two activities, it's rather neglected the third. Not any more:...

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Michael Moore is screening a surprise Donald Trump film tonight in NYC

Director Michael Moore announced today that he’ll be screening his new Donald Trump film in New York City. Titled Michael Moore in TrumpLand, the film, which promises to offer his comedic take on the Trump campaign, will open tonight at...

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Pepe’s creator is trying to reclaim him from white supremacists

Pepe the frog, a one-time comic character and long-standing internet meme, has had a rough year. But after seeing Pepe repurposed by racists and identified as a hate symbol, his creator is trying to reclaim him. The Anti-Defamation League and Matt...

The CIA is reportedly preparing for a major cyber attack against Russia

The Obama administration is considering a major retaliatory cyber attack against Russia, NBC News reports. The move is in response to allegations of the country’s involvement in recent hacks against the Democratic National Committee earlier this...

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NBC won’t air its Donald Trump-inspired Law & Order: SVU episode until after the election

NBC’s Law & Order: Special Victims Unit has long been known for ripping the plots of its episodes out of real-life events, but NBC has decided to hold an upcoming episode of the show inspired by Donald Trump until after the upcoming presidential...

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What it’s like to be blamed for Trump’s candidacy: an interview with Russ Steinberg

SB Nation contributor Russ Steinberg tweeted a prescient joke at Donald Trump three and a half years ago, and now some strangers are holding him accountable for the Republican presidential nominee. Steinberg’s exchange was simple enough: Obama...

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Google News launches fact check feature ahead of Election Day

Google News this week launched a fact check feature that will be displayed in searches for news stories. The feature, announced on Thursday, launches amid a US presidential election that has been marred by misinformation and outright lies, most...