Category Archives: (Sandbox) Politics
Puerto Rico independence vote bill passes U.S. House
By Moira Warburton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Puerto Rico's movement for greater self-government got a boost on Thursday in the U.S. House of Representatives, which passed a bill for a referendum on three...
Dec 15, 2022
Spanish prisoners craft Christmas ‘pooper’ figures of world leaders
FIGUERES, Spain (Reuters) - Inmates at a prison north of Barcelona have produced thousands of clay figurines of world leaders and celebrities with their pants down and defecating, in keeping with a tr...
Dec 15, 2022
Pelosi undecided if U.S. House will take up TikTok government device ban bill
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Thursday she had yet to decide whether the U.S. House of Representatives will join the Senate in backing legislation to bar fede...
Dec 15, 2022
U.S. Senate set to address cocaine sentencing disparity in funding bill
By Gram Slattery WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Negotiators in the U.S. Senate have reached a tentative deal to narrow sentencing disparities between crack and powder cocaine and plan to tuck the measure into...
Dec 15, 2022
Giuliani should be disciplined over 2020 election case, ethics panel says
By Andrew Goudsward (Reuters) - Rudy Giuliani violated at least one attorney ethics rule in his work on a failed lawsuit challenging the 2020 election results on behalf of then-U.S. President Donald T...
Dec 15, 2022
U.S. Senate must work quickly to pass stopgap funding bill, Schumer says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate needs to move quickly to pass a weeklong stopgap funding bill ahead of a midnight Friday deadline to avoid a partial government shutdown, Senate Majority Leader ...
Dec 15, 2022
Window closing for deal in U.S. Congress to protect ‘Dreamer’ immigrants
By Ted Hesson and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Over 200 advocates from around the United States converged on Capitol Hill this week with an 11th-hour mission: persuade lawmakers to provide cit...
Dec 15, 2022
U.S. House passes one-week government funding bill, sends to Senate
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday approved a stopgap one-week funding bill, a move intended to give lawmakers more time to pass a bill to fully fund the federal gov...
Dec 14, 2022
Puerto Rican independence bill goes to U.S. House vote on Thursday
By Moira Warburton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Puerto Ricans could move a step closer to a referendum on whether the island should become a U.S. state, an independent country or have another type of govern...
Dec 14, 2022
Police testify about attack on U.S. House Speaker Pelosi’s husband
By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) - A San Francisco police officer testified on Wednesday that he witnessed the attack on U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband when the suspect attack...
Dec 14, 2022
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