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250,000
The Washington Post has now had more than 250,000 cancellations — approximately 10% of all paid circulation — since the newspaper made its decision to not endorse in the presidential race, NPR reports. The Guardian: “The numbers are based on the number of cancellation emails that have been sent out, according to a source at the paper, though the subscriber dashboard is no longer viewable to employees.”
75,000
“Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign claimed she drew a crowd of more than 75,000 people in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday to hear her speech at the Ellipse, the site of Donald Trump’s infamous 2021 speech exhorting supporters to ‘fight like hell’ in the moments just before the January 6 Capitol riot,” The Independent reports.
$15.9 billion
MSN: “What many Americans may not realize is that U.S. elections are an outlier, especially compared to other industrialized democracies. Canada’s campaign typically lasts between 36 and 50 days. The total campaign bill for its 2021 election: $69 million in today’s dollars—about 1/27th the price tag per voter south of the border. U.S. elections cost about 40 times more per person than the U.K. or Germany.”
1,600
The Washington Post registered more than 1600 cancellations of digital subscriptions in the first three hours of news the newspaper would not endorse a candidate in the presidential election, NPR reports.
21%
Russia’s central bank on Friday raised its key interest rate by two percentage points to a record-high 21% in an effort to combat growing inflation as government spending on the military strains the economy’s capacity to produce goods and services – and drives up workers’ wages, reports Euro News. By contrast, it’s 2.4% in the U.S., according to CNBC.
$1.1 billion
“Outside groups have poured an astounding $1.1 billion into the presidential race with less than two weeks to go before Election Day,” NBC News reports.
450 posts, 679 million views
PolitiFact analyzed more than 450 posts Musk made on X, the social media platform he owns, from Sept. 30 to Oct. 14. These included reposts, quote replies and some standard replies to other X users. Musk — who was born in South Africa in 1971 and became a U.S. citizen in 2002 — continued his long-standing election year pattern of sharing falsehoods about immigrants and the immigration process, including baselessly claiming that immigrants have or will vote in U.S. elections. Musk has more than 202 million X followers who regularly view and interact with his posts. The misinformation-containing posts we analyzed over these two weeks received nearly 679 million views, more than 5.3 million likes and over 1.6 million reposts.
82
“More than 80 American Nobel Prize winners in physics, chemistry, medicine and economics have signed an open letter endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris for president,” the New York Times reports.
20 in 8.2 million
“An audit uncovered 20 noncitizens out of 8.2 million registered voters in Georgia, according to findings announced by Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on Wednesday,” the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports. “Nine of those 20 noncitizens cast ballots years ago, before ID verification checks were in place, while the other 11 were registered but never actually voted, the audit showed. Election officials canceled their voter registrations and reported them to law enforcement agencies.”
74
Thirteen people have died so far this year of a “flesh-eating” bacteria after Florida was slammed by back-to-back hurricanes, which pushed floodwaters onto land, public health department data showed Tuesday, according to the Temple Terrace Patch. The health Department said 74 cases of the disease have been reported in Florida since hurricanes Helene and Milton.
