George Washington University in D.C. is encouraging students to stock up on essential goods, such as food and prescription drugs, ahead of the election, warning of the potential for there to be protests and unrest around the Washington area. nbcnews.com/politics/2020-…
A caravan of Trump supporters trailed a Biden campaign bus on I-35 in Central Texas on Friday, according to local officials and videos posted online — and two collided while driving close to the bus. nbcnews.com/politics/2020-…
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LIVE UPDATES: Biden, Trump prep for final pitches to voters. nbcnews.to/3efQV1E
Sen. Harris said Saturday while campaigning in Florida that she was confident there would be a "decisive decision" on election night. nbcnews.to/37ZIQx3
There are 32M Latinos eligible to vote in the upcoming elections, whose turnout could swing outcomes in battleground states (1/13) #NBCNewsThreadsnbcnews.com/nightly-news/v…
At least 14.6M Latinos are projected to cast a ballot in November, which would be a 15% increase from 2016. But factors like Covid-19, disinformation campaigns, and voter suppression efforts could put this number at risk, organizers say. (2/13) nbcnews.com/news/latino/la…
TEXAS: The last Democratic presidential nominee to win the state was Jimmy Carter. For Democrats to tip the election, they'll need improved turnout and more voters from the state's almost all-Latino lower Rio Grande Valley and parts of South Texas (3/13) nbcnews.com/news/latino/co…
The federal government is projected to issue record subsidies to farmers across the US this year. But Black farmers, whose numbers have been dwindling for generations, say they've yet to see any big changes to keep their farms afloat. #NBCNewsThreads (1/5) nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/us…
99% of subsidies provided to farmers linked to the trade war with China went to white farmers, one report finds.
Black farmers say this level of aid has passed them by, not just in 2020, but also historically. (2/5)
When a white farmer goes to the USDA and is approved for a loan, the farmer "gets a check and goes back to farming," a Georgia farmer explains.
When Black farmers are approved, the structure of the loans require them to go to the bank with a USDA county supervisor, he said (3/5)
BREAKING: Preliminary 7.0-magnitude earthquake strikes off the west coast of Turkey, USGS says; governor of Izmir, Turkey, reports some collapsed buildings.
Damage seen in Izmir, Turkey, after 7.0-magnitude earthquake strikes off west coast of Turkey.
A 64-page document asserting an elaborate conspiracy theory involving Joe Biden's son and business in China, that was later disseminated by close associates of President Trump, appears to be the work of a fake "intelligence firm." (1/8) #NBCNewsThreadsnbcnews.to/3e9Gug9
The document, which went viral on the right-wing internet a month before the purported leak of files from Hunter Biden's laptop, was said to be authored by Swiss security analyst Martin Aspen — who doesn't exist, according to an analysis by disinformation researchers. (2/8)
Disinformation researchers say Aspen is a fabricated identity and that his profile picture was created with an artificial intelligence face generator. The firm he lists as his previous employer tells @NBCNews that nobody by that name had ever worked for their company. (3/8)