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American midterm elections are normally sleepy affairs, but 2018’s hyper-partisan atmosphere has voters turning out in record numbers. Polling places were unprepared for the onslaught and machines broke down all over the country. In New York City, broken and jammed machines thwarted thousands of voters from Brooklyn to the Upper East Side and the Bronx, […]
给江小夏的第一千零一封信 OnePlus is working on a followup to the OnePlus 6, the OnePlus 6T. The company’s latest smartphone should launch sometime in October, and until then we’re getting a slow, continual drip of information on the device. The latest news is not so great. The company has revealed that it’s dumping the headphone jack on […]
A risqué image of a regional deputy’s wife surrounded by unclothed models is the latest stunt to encourage Russians to vote in the presidential election on Sunday. In the picture, which has attracted national media attention, Yulia Dyatlova stands surrounded by eight long-legged young women, apparently nude, save for a banner proclaiming “We are going […]
Enlarge (credit: flickr user: Kelley Minars) In the run-up to the 2016 US presidential elections, a scuffle broke out about the election forecasts. While FiveThirtyEight predicted a one-in-three chance of a Trump win, other forecasts suggested a near-certain Clinton victory. “[T]he most popular and widely quoted website out there, fivethirtyeight.com, has something tragically wrong with […]
Czech President Milos Zeman was confronted by a topless FEMEN activist at a polling station in Prague on Friday. Zeman looked embarrassed but said he “felt privileged” to have been targeted by the radical feminist protest group. The female activist had her 15 seconds of fame during the first round of the country’s presidential election. […]
Spain’s Catalonia is gearing up for an independence referendum on Sunday despite attempts to hinder the process by the government in Madrid, which considers it illegal. Catalans have staged numerous protests and occupied polling stations to secure their right to vote. Over six thousand ballot boxes will be used, and there are more than 2,300 […]
Will McNamee (Getty Images) A new poll suggests people hold an increasingly negative view of Donald Trump’s presidency. According to SSRS, an independent research company that conducted a poll on behalf of CNN, 38% of respondents said they approved of Trump’s handling of the presidency, while 56% disapproved — a modest drop from April’s survey […]
