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UPDATED with latest: After a night of ballot counting, Kanye West passed 60,000 votes in the race for the presidency of the United States. West was on the ballot in 12 states. His exact count, as of 10:30 a.m. PT Wednesday, was 60,761. Most of the states in question were above 90% counted, with the notable exceptions…

Kanye West claimed today that he has voted in his first presidential election and that he's decided to vote for himself. However, the rapper and “Birthday Party” candidate is likely to have had to write his own name in given that he is not on the ballot in Wyoming, where he registered in July. "God is so good," West…

Presidential candidate Kanye West isn’t evidently pinning too many hopes on winning the election after setting an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! The rapper will feature on the ABC late-night show on Wednesday November 4. West has qualified for ballot access in 12 states but his run hasn't been particularly smooth as…

Kanye West has fired back at Saturday Night Live for putting him down during one of last night’s sketches. In the sketch, which featured SNL host for the evening Issa Rae along with Kenan Thompson and Ego Nwodim, the imaginary talk show Your Voice Chicago asked about election candidate choices. Rae slammed the chances…

With just over three weeks to go before Election Day and polling near zero, increasingly desperate contender Kanye West has put out his first campaign ad today with prayers of convincing voters to write him in on their ballots – more than once. "America," the notoriously baffling and seemingly baffled rapper and…

Kanye West has so far loaned his presidential campaign $6.8 million, with most of the spending going to efforts to secure his name on the November ballot. West’s campaign filed its first report with the Federal Election Commission on Friday. It also showed that the campaign has spent about $5.9 million, with the bulk…

UPDATE, 11:43 AM PT, Aug. 13: Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son in law and senior adviser, confirmed that he met with Kanye West last weekend. “We talk every now and then about different things, and we both happened to be in Colorado, and so we got together, and we had a great discussion about a lot of…

In the weeks since Kanye West announced that he was really and truly running for president, political reporters have approached his potential candidacy with a bit of caution — not just because he would be a long shot who already missed deadlines, but also over calls by his wife Kim Kardashian for “compassion” over his…

Twitter said that a high-profile hack earlier this month first targeted a small number of employees through a phone "spear phishing" attack, using their credentials to access the system and contact other staffers who had access key support tools. "Using the credentials of employees with access to these tools, the…

(UPDATED with New York Times statement) "We're off last week, it's good to be back," declared a plucky Tucker Carlson at the outset tonight of his Fox News Channel show. And if viewers or critics were expecting the top-rated host to dive into controversies like a new lawsuit that alleges sexual harassment and…

UPDATE:  No policy matters have been revealed yet from Kanye West’s South Carolina rally, but he’s making waves with comments on underground railroad hero Harriet Tubman. Wearing a bulletproof vest and appearing in front of an American flag, West went into an off-the-cuff stream on Tubman. "Harriet Tubman never…

When the feeds of some of the most high-profile people in the world are hacked, your internal systems are undermined and your stock takes a 4% drop, "tough day" may be a severe understatement. Yet, that is what Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said today after Joe Biden, Kanye West, Elon Musk, Barack Obama, Amazon kingpin Jeff…