By Habiba Kamel, Opinion Columnist
| October 9, 2025
Our phones are what help us stay connected even when we cannot see each other face to face. They are the way we can keep up with our loved ones even if we do not live in the same state. They are the way we can share our happiest moments.
Most importantly,...
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The stakes are high when a major civic exercise involves a large population, new technology that has not been thoroughly tested and an entire country waiting on the results.Just ask the organizers of the Iowa caucuses, which offered...
By PAUL WISEMAN, ANNE D’INNOCENZIO, and DAVID KOENIG
| February 11, 2020
WASHINGTON (AP) — Chinese authorities are struggling to strike a delicate balance between containing a viral outbreak and restarting the world’s second-biggest economy after weeks of paralysis.As the death toll from the newly named COVID-19 illness...
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Days before the Iowa caucuses, Democratic Party activist Lindsey Ellickson prepared to run her Cedar Rapids precinct by downloading the new smartphone app designed to calculate and report results.But her planning ran into a problem:...
By RYAN J. FOLEY and CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY
| February 4, 2020
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — What went wrong with the Iowa Democratic Party’s high-tech plan to speed up the reporting of caucus night results? Pretty much everything.A little-known startup company was picked by party leaders to develop a mobile app for...
