Category Archives: (Sandbox) Politics
Trump legal team search for classified material at properties, Washington Post says
(Reuters) - Lawyers for former U.S. President Donald Trump searched Trump Tower and one of his golf courses after a judge instructed them to attest to complying with a subpoena to turn over all classi...
Dec 07, 2022
Republicans target judicial scrutiny of elections at U.S. Supreme Court
By Andrew Chung and Nate Raymond WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court is set on Wednesday to hear a Republican appeal that could transform U.S. elections by giving politicians more power over...
Dec 07, 2022
Trump-backed Walker loses: Three takeaways from Georgia U.S. Senate runoff
By James Oliphant WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Raphael Warnock beat Republican challenger Herschel Walker in a Georgia runoff election that fortified Democrats' Senate majority and handed the R...
Dec 06, 2022
U.S. lawmakers decline to add Boeing 737 MAX exemption in defense bill
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. lawmakers late on Tuesday declined to add an extension to an annual defense bill of a looming deadline that would impose a new safety standard for modern...
Dec 06, 2022
U.S. lawmakers authorize $800 million more for Ukraine in defense bill
By Patricia Zengerle and Mike Stone WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. lawmakers agreed to provide Ukraine at least $800 million in additional security assistance next year and to boost Taiwan with billions i...
Dec 06, 2022
Factbox-How the Trump Organization cheated on taxes
By Karen Freifeld (Reuters) - Former President Donald Trump's namesake company was found guilty on Tuesday of scheming to defraud tax authorities. Alan Futerfas, a lawyer for the Trump Organization, s...
Dec 06, 2022
Factbox-What legal problems does U.S. presidential candidate Trump face?
By Luc Cohen and Jacqueline Thomsen (Reuters) - Donald Trump's legal woes deepened on Tuesday when his real estate company was found guilty of carrying out a 15-year-long criminal scheme to defraud ta...
Dec 06, 2022
U.S. Republican hardliner Biggs to challenge McCarthy for House speaker
By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A hardline Republican U.S. lawmaker on Tuesday announced he will challenge House of Representatives party chief Kevin McCarthy for the House speakership, a prosp...
Dec 06, 2022
U.S. special counsel subpoenas officials in three states in Trump probe – Washington Post
By Katharine Jackson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The special counsel overseeing the U.S. Justice Department's investigations related to former U.S. President Donald Trump has subpoenaed local election offi...
Dec 06, 2022
U.S. lawmakers ease proposed curbs on Chinese chips amid corporate pushback
By Alexandra Alper WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. senators have scaled back a proposal that placed new curbs on the use of Chinese-made chips by the U.S. government and its contractors, according to a re...
Dec 06, 2022
