Category Archives: (Sandbox) Politics
Parts of report on Trump’s Georgia election meddling to be released
By Joseph Ax (Reuters) - Parts of a Georgia grand jury report on former U.S. President Donald Trump's attempts to overturn his 2020 election defeat in the state are due to be made public on Thursday, ...
Feb 16, 2023
Biden, 80, to have closely watched physical exam
By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden, 80, will undergo a closely watched physical examination on Thursday, ahead of an expected announcement that he is seeking a second four-yea...
Feb 16, 2023
Senator says U.S. should consider mandating transponders on high-altitude balloons
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senator Mark Kelly says Congress should consider mandating transponders on high-altitude weather and research balloons to help the U.S. military differentiat...
Feb 15, 2023
Former Trump Chief of Staff Meadows subpoenaed in Capitol attack probe: CNN
(Reuters) - Mark Meadows, a former chief of staff to ex-U.S. President Donald Trump, has been subpoenaed as part of a probe by Special Counsel Jack Smith regarding the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capi...
Feb 15, 2023
New York Senate rejects Governor Hochul’s pick for top state judge
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York's state Senate on Wednesday rejected Governor Kathy Hochul's choice to become the state's highest-ranking judge, a defeat for the state's top Democrat who failed to overc...
Feb 15, 2023
U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz says he will not face federal sex trafficking charge
By Moira Warburton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Representative Matt Gaetz's office on Wednesday said federal prosecutors had told his attorneys that he would not be criminally charged following an almo...
Feb 15, 2023
Senators press U.S. FAA on recent airplane near miss incidents
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. senators on Wednesday raised concerns about a string of recent near miss airplane incidents with the acting Federal Aviation Administration head as well...
Feb 15, 2023
Biden may give speech on balloon, unidentified objects-source
By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden and his team are considering him giving a speech soon to address issues around the high-altitude Chinese balloon and three other objects sho...
Feb 15, 2023
Ukrainian village renamed after top general fighting Russia
KYIV (Reuters) - A village in the Kharkiv region of eastern Ukraine has been renamed Zaluzhne in honour of Valeriy Zaluzhnyi, the top general in the war against Russia. Halyna Kuts, a deputy on the Kh...
Feb 15, 2023
Who is Fani Willis, the ‘pit bull’ prosecutor weighing Trump charges?
By Andrew Goudsward and Tom Hals (Reuters) - Fani Willis, the district attorney in Georgia's Fulton County who is pursuing a criminal investigation of Donald Trump over his contacts with state officia...
Feb 15, 2023
