Category Archives: (Sandbox) Politics
Republican says US debt-ceiling talks paused, White House says deal still possible
By Steve Holland and Caroline Valetkevitch WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Talks between U.S. House of Representatives Republicans and President Joe Biden's administration about raising the debt ceiling paused ...
May 19, 2023
Factbox-Who is Tim Scott, Republican 2024 presidential candidate?
By Moira Warburton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Tim Scott on Friday launched a bid for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. He is the only Black Republican candidate so far, and says he...
May 19, 2023
Tim Scott, lone Black Republican in U.S. Senate, to run for president
By Gram Slattery and Jason Lange WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Republican U.S. Senator Tim Scott has entered the 2024 presidential race, according to a filing with the U.S. election regulator on Friday, in wh...
May 19, 2023
Biden administration supports Mountain Valley pipeline for second time in week
By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Biden administration has supported for the second time in a week the Mountain Valley natural gas pipeline, a project a key Democratic senator has pushed i...
May 19, 2023
Biden likely to get another update on budget talks on Friday -spokesperson
HIROSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden is likely to get another update from his team on budget negotiations with Republicans on Friday night in Japan, where he is traveling for the Grou...
May 19, 2023
Biden’s team reports ‘progress’ in debt ceiling talks with president
HIROSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden held a call with his debt ceiling negotiation team on Friday while he was traveling in Japan for the Group of Seven (G7) summit, according to Whit...
May 18, 2023
US House hardliners could try to block debt-ceiling deal without ‘robust’ cuts
By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden and Republican U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy have voiced growing confidence about striking a debt-ceiling deal to avoid a catastrophic de...
May 18, 2023
US House member ‘pauses’ subpoena attempt over Afghanistan cable
By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee said on Thursday he accepted the State Department's invitation to view a classif...
May 18, 2023
U.S. Supreme Court dismisses dispute over Title 42 border expulsions
By Andrew Chung (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed a case in which Republicans sought to keep in place a policy introduced under former President Donald Trump that had let Americ...
May 18, 2023
US senator Feinstein suffered more complications from illness than publicly disclosed- NYT
(Reuters) - U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein, who returned to Washington in May after a months-long absence due to shingles, suffered more complications from the illness than were publicly disclosed, the...
May 18, 2023
