Category Archives: (Sandbox) Politics
US Senate takes up bill to avert partial government shutdown
By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Wednesday prepared to take up a stopgap spending bill that would avert a partial government shutdown, with little time remaining before fundin...
Nov 15, 2023
Biden says Trump echoed Nazis with use of word ‘vermin’
By Trevor Hunnicutt and Nandita Bose SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday attacked former President Donald Trump for using the word "vermin" to refer to his political enemies,...
Nov 14, 2023
Payback time: Trump plans mass firings, deportations in second term
(Corrects date in dateline) WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Republican Donald Trump is planning to punish his political enemies, fire thousands of government employees, deport millions of migrants and reshape g...
Nov 14, 2023
Trump’s Georgia election trial might not conclude until 2025, says prosecutor
(Reuters) - Former U.S. President Donald Trump's election interference case in Georgia may not conclude until the winter of 2024 or early 2025 after a trial that will last many months, the prosecutor,...
Nov 14, 2023
Santos ex-campaign fundraiser enters guilty plea in federal court
By Luc Cohen CENTRAL ISLIP, New York (Reuters) -A former fundraiser for indicted U.S. Representative George Santos pleaded guilty to fraud on Tuesday, adding to the pressure on the embattled New York ...
Nov 14, 2023
Top US House Republican Johnson endorses Trump for president
By Gram Slattery WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson, the highest-ranking Republican in Congress, endorsed Donald Trump for the Republican presidential nomination...
Nov 14, 2023
Factbox-How Trump would crack down on immigration in a second term
By Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former U.S. President Donald Trump, the leading candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024, has promised to crack down on illegal immigration and...
Nov 14, 2023
Factbox-Court fights could tip control of US House in 2024
By Joseph Ax (Reuters) - Legal battles over redistricting could lead to new congressional maps in nearly a dozen U.S. states for the 2024 election, potentially flipping control of the U.S. House of Re...
Nov 14, 2023
US Congress tries to overcome partisan logjam to avert government shutdown
By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson's plan to avert a government shutdown faces a key test on Tuesday, as he tries to overcome hardline opposition from his own Repub...
Nov 14, 2023
Facing State Dept dissent over Gaza, Blinken tells staff: We’re listening
By Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday moved to address rising criticism within the State Department ranks over the Biden administration's policy on t...
Nov 13, 2023
