Category Archives: (Sandbox) Politics
U.S. appeals court upholds Florida voting law that judge found discriminatory
By Joseph Ax (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld several Republican-backed voting restrictions in Florida, overruling a lower court judge who had found the laws intentionally discri...
Apr 27, 2023
Trump paints doomsday scenario if Biden wins White House again
By Nathan Layne MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Donald Trump will use his first campaign event since President Joe Biden officially entered the 2024 election race to portray their differences in...
Apr 27, 2023
Factbox-U.S. state abortion legislation to watch in 2023
By Gabriella Borter and Sharon Bernstein (Reuters) - State legislatures are wrestling with how much to restrict or expand abortion access after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year....
Apr 27, 2023
Senators urge Biden to enable agency to seize tankers of Iran oil
By Timothy Gardner and Jonathan Saul WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As Iran's oil exports rise despite U.S. sanctions over its nuclear program, senators from both parties urged President Joe Biden to enable a...
Apr 27, 2023
U.S. Senate panel seeks ethics details from Supreme Court -letter
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate Judiciary Committee called on U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Roberts to provide details about the top court's ethics practices, the panel's chairman said on Thursday...
Apr 27, 2023
Elderly Japanese man opens free cafe in Ukraine’s Kharkiv
By Vitalii Hnidyi KHARKIV, Ukraine (Reuters) - When Fuminori Tsuchiko arrived in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv last year, he said he wanted to do anything he could to help people following Rus...
Apr 27, 2023
Republican West Virginia Governor Jim Justice aims to take on Democratic Senator Joe Manchin
By Kanishka Singh and Moira Warburton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - West Virginia Governor Jim Justice launched his campaign on Thursday for the Republican nomination to challenge Democratic U.S. Senator Joe...
Apr 27, 2023
Factbox-What’s in the US House Republicans’ debt-ceiling spending-cut bill?
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives has passed a bill that pairs $4.8 trillion of spending cuts with an increase in the federal government's $31.4 trillion debt cei...
Apr 27, 2023
Solar, EV firms say Republicans’ debt limit a ‘stunt’ that could cost jobs
By Andy Sullivan and Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Solar and EV companies are warning that a Republican plan to slash federal spending in exchange for a hike in the U.S. debt ceiling could ...
Apr 27, 2023
Trump lawyers set to attack writer’s rape claim at civil trial
By Jack Queen and Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - Donald Trump's legal team is expected to attack the credibility of former Elle magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll on Thursday, as a civil trial ...
Apr 27, 2023
