Category Archives: (Sandbox) Politics
Republicans face 2024 dilemma after abortion rights issue powers Democrats
By Gabriella Borter and Tim Reid WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Victories by abortion rights campaigners and Democrats in this week's U.S. elections pose a dilemma for Republicans: How to campaign on an issue...
Nov 08, 2023
White House denounces lawmaker Tlaib’s use of pro-Palentinian rallying cry in Israel-Hamas conflict
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House on Wednesday denounced U.S. lawmaker Rashida Tlaib's use of a pro-Palestinian rallying cry "from the river to the sea", which is viewed by many Jews as antisemit...
Nov 08, 2023
US House Oversight panel will issue subpoenas to president’s son, brother to appear
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House Oversight Committee said on Wednesday it will issue subpoenas to President Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden, and brother, James Biden, to appear for depositions, in ...
Nov 08, 2023
DeSantis’ biggest donor Bigelow switches to Trump, but not donating for now
By Alexandra Ulmer (Reuters) - Hotel entrepreneur Robert Bigelow, Republican presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis' biggest donor, is switching his support to Donald Trump, but he will not give the former...
Nov 08, 2023
One of the exonerated ‘Central Park Five’ wins New York City Council seat
(Reuters) - Yusef Salaam, one of five Black and Latino men wrongly imprisoned as teenagers in the notorious Central Park jogger rape case in 1989, won a seat on the New York City council in Tuesday's ...
Nov 08, 2023
Trump targets 2024 Hispanic vote as rivals gather for Miami debate
By Nathan Layne and James Oliphant (Reuters) - Donald Trump, the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination, will stage a rally outside Miami on Wednesday to court Hispanic voters seen as ...
Nov 08, 2023
Republican debate: Will DeSantis and Haley take fight to Trump or each other?
By James Oliphant MIAMI (Reuters) - An intensifying rivalry between Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley could dominate Wednesday's Republican debate as the two 2024 U.S. presidential hopefuls seek to present...
Nov 08, 2023
Ivanka Trump to testify in father’s New York civil fraud trial
By Jack Queen (Reuters) - Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka Trump is set to testify on Wednesday in a civil fraud trial that has exposed the inner workings of the former U.S. president's business empire ...
Nov 08, 2023
US House censures lone Palestinian-American lawmaker over Israel comments
By Moira Warburton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House voted on Tuesday to censure Democratic Representative Rashida Tlaib, Congress's lone Palestinian-American lawmaker, for comments she made regar...
Nov 07, 2023
Republican US senator continues abortion-related holds on military nominees
By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville said on Tuesday he would continue his blockade of hundreds of military promotions over the Defense Department's abo...
Nov 07, 2023
