Category Archives: (Sandbox) Politics

By Jonathan Allen and Brad Brooks NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - Protesters flooded Tennessee's statehouse on Thursday to demand lawmakers stiffen gun laws following a school shooting in Nashville t...

By Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden will veto a Republican-backed bill to overturn police reforms in Washington, D.C., if it passes in Congress, a White House official ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said on Thursday that Republicans could act on their own on the U.S. government's debt ceiling if President Joe Biden does not negotiate. Biden...

By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives is expected to vote on its first major legislation of the year on Thursday, a partisan energy bill that p...

(Reuters) - A Florida board created to oversee Walt Disney World's special taxation district is considering legal action after saying its power over the entertainment company's resort has been eviscer...

By Andrew Hay (Reuters) - Republican lawmakers in Kentucky on Wednesday overturned the governor's veto of a bill to ban transgender youths from gender-affirming healthcare and restrict which toilets t...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Energy Committee Chair Joe Manchin said on Wednesday he may go to court after the U.S. Treasury releases guidance later this week on battery sourcing guidance for electri...

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Maryland grand jury has indicted a former mayor of College Park on 80 counts of possession of child pornography and intent to distribute, prosecutors in Prin...

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Democratic U.S. Senator John Fetterman plans to return to the Senate the week of April 17 after a weeks-long treatment for depression, a source familiar with th...

By Nandita Bose and Susan Heavey WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The White House made an emotional plea on Wednesday for Republican action to curb mass shootings, criticizing conservative lawmakers for saying n...