The president-elect announced that Tom Homan — one of the architects of Trump’s family separation policy — will play a major role in his administration.
In 2022, Homan spoke at a conference organized by white supremacist Nick Fuentes. Starting next year, he’ll “be in charge of all Deportation of Illegal Aliens,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ordered employees to scale back their use of cell phones — both personal and work-issued — amid fears that China had hacked AT&T, Verizon, Lumen Technologies, and other telecom providers.
An email from the CFPB’s chief information officer read:
Do NOT conduct CFPB work using mobile voice calls or text messages
While there is no evidence that CFPB has been targeted by this unauthorized access, I ask for your compliance with these directives so we reduce the risk that we will be compromised
The Mozambican government imposed sweeping internet restrictions on October 25th after mass demonstrations broke out in the aftermath of the country’s presidential election.
The BBC reports independent candidate Venâncio Mondlane, who claims to have won the elections, has called for protests while in hiding. According to traffic data from NetBlocks, Mozambique’s internet access has been cut numerous times since November 4th.
Bernie Moreno, an Ohio car dealer and blockchain entrepreneur, unseated Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) with a little help from his friends.
Coinbase, Ripple Labs, and other crypto firms poured more than $40 million into Moreno’s campaign — and their bet paid off. Moreno flipped the seat, getting Republicans even closer to controlling the Senate.
A majority of voters supported Florida’s amendments 3 and 4, ballot initiatives that would have legalized recreational marijuana and allowed abortions up to 24 weeks.
But neither ballot initiative garnered 60 percent of the vote — the threshold needed to fulfill Florida’s supermajority requirement. Ironically enough, the 60 percent requirement was enacted after a 2006 referendum... by just 57 percent of voters.
After an election observer in Milwaukee, WI noticed an issue with the tabulators, officials decided to recount all 30,000 of the absentee and early ballots that had already been tabulated.
The doors of one tabulating machine hadn’t been closed properly, CNN reports.
Young people are turning out in record numbers in Nevada — but the state has had to set aside a large number of ballots for “curing,” since the signatures on them don’t match what’s in the state’s voter database.
Nevada Secretary of State Francisco Aguilar told the New York Times:
“It’s mostly the fact that young people don’t have signatures these days,” he said. “And when they did register to vote through the automatic voter registration process, they signed a digital pad at D.M.V., and that became their license signature.”
