Category Archives: (Sandbox) Politics

By Kristina Cooke and Mica Rosenberg (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday introduced a bipartisan bill that would raise penalties on employers who violate child labor laws, in the wake of reporting...

By Douglas Gillison (Reuters) - Wall Street's top regulator on Wednesday asked lawmakers to approve a 12% boost to his agency's budget, citing burgeoning growth in financial markets and the rising ris...

By Jarrett Renshaw and Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic forced presidential candidate Joe Biden to accept the Democratic Party's nomination inside a largely empty...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. lawmaker Kevin Hern said on Wednesday that Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell told a meeting of the Republican Study Committee that insurance limits on banking deposits wo...

By Karen Freifeld NEW YORK (Reuters) - The New York grand jury probing former President Donald Trump's alleged role in a hush-money payment to a porn star is not expected to reconvene on the matter un...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A majority of the U.S. Senate backed legislation on Wednesday to repeal two decades-old authorizations for past wars in Iraq, as Congress pushes to reassert its role over decidi...

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican Senator Rand Paul on Wednesday opposed efforts in Congress to ban popular Chinese-owned social media app TikTok, which is used by more than 150 mi...

By Hannah Lang (Reuters) -Silicon Valley Bank executives, supervisors at the Federal Reserve and the regulatory system all failed when considering the collapsed U.S. lender, the Fed's top bank oversig...

By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A group of senior Democratic lawmakers will introduce legislation on Wednesday to more closely ensure that U.S. weapons sales to foreign customers do not en...

By Tim Reid, Alexandra Ulmer and James Oliphant (Reuters) - The battle for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination has for months been seen as a two-man race: a fight between Donald Trump and Flor...