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As investors play a growing role in the housing market, many first-time buyers are having a hard time finding a home.

1st-Time Homebuyers Are Getting Squeezed Out By Investors

The pool of smaller, affordable starter houses is low. And the market for these first-time home purchases is increasingly being driven by investors who help push prices out of reach.

Elon Musk says he wants to see more details about the number of fake accounts on Twitter before his deal to buy the social media platform goes through. He's seen here last week, arriving for the 2022 Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Elon Musk says he's put the blockbuster Twitter deal on pause over fake accounts

The Tesla and SpaceX mogul said he needs to make sure the fake accounts "do indeed represent less than 5%" of Twitter's users, as the company has estimated.

People raise their arms while marching on Market Street in San Francisco. As tech companies write statement and pledge money to address racial inequity, some Black tech workers are urging for more fundamental changes in the industry.

Big Talk From Big Tech On Racial Equity, But Not All Workers Are Buying It

More than 200 technology companies have issued statements supporting the advancement of racial justice, but Black tech workers say internal policies and tech culture needs an overhaul first.

A supporter of Kuomintang, or KMT, Taiwan's major opposition party, waves Taiwan's national flag on Nov. 24, 2023, in Taipei, Taiwan. Researchers uncovered an influence operation targeting Taiwan's upcoming presidential election on Facebook, TikTok and YouTube.

Fake social media accounts are targeting Taiwan's presidential election

The influence operation identified by Graphika researchers involved a network of more than 800 fake Facebook accounts that reposted Chinese-language TikTok and YouTube videos about Taiwanese politics.

Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is weighing a 2020 presidential run. He'd join two other wealthy, self-funding Democrats in the primary: John Delaney and Tom Steyer.

Why Money (Usually) Can't Buy You A Successful Campaign

Only one major self-funding candidate — President Trump — has ever won the Oval Office. Despite long odds, some Democrats are spending millions of their own on the 2020 race, or contemplating it.

Classical Crib Sheet: Top 5 Stories This Week

The FAA changes its tune regarding instruments on planes, the passing of "conduction" innovator Butch Morris, the stats on coughing at concerts and what the New Jersey Symphony board wasn't told about Richard Dare. Plus: violinist vs. composer and a music retailer's staff retaliates on Twitter.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie fields questions at a news conference in March at the Statehouse in Trenton, N.J.

Missing From 'Bridgegate' Investigation: Chris Christie's Personal Email Account

The governor has insisted that his personal and government accounts were searched by investigators, but new court documents indicate that a personal account he shared with his wife was never searched.

Construction is underway for an events lodge on Powder Mountain, now under the ownership of Summit.

Why Buy A House When You Can Buy A Mountain?

Big names in business, entertainment and philanthropy pitched in to help buy a Utah ski mountain for a reported $40 million. They want to turn it into the next cool hub for culture and new ideas. "We look to build the coolest little mountain town in the world," says one of the buyers.

Elections 2018: Who Came Out On Top After The Primaries?

The March 6 Texas primaries brought voters out to the polls to decide the Democratic and Republican Party nominations for elected offices around the…

Should The U.S. Government Buy A Drug Company To Save Money?

Most of the millions in the U.S. who are infected with hepatitis C can't afford the cure. Some say the U.S. could save money and cure more people if it bought the drugmaker Gilead Sciences Inc.

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