Category Archives: (Sandbox) Politics
Trump is accused of stonewalling rape accuser to avoid Oct. 19 deposition
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - The writer suing Donald Trump for defamation after he denied having raped her in the mid-1990s accused the former U.S. president of stonewalling and trying to ...
Sep 30, 2022
U.S. House Democrat says party leaders derailing stock-trading bill
By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A vulnerable Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives accused her party's leaders on Friday of undermining efforts to move forward before the Nov. 8 midterm...
Sep 30, 2022
U.S. House nears final passage of stopgap gov’t funding
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A stopgap funding bill to keep federal agencies operating through Dec. 16 gained enough votes to pass in the U.S. House of Representatives, just hours ahead of a midnight deadli...
Sep 30, 2022
2020 election conspiracists could soon oversee voting in U.S. battleground states
By Andrew R.C. Marshall, Joseph Tanfani and Peter Eisler (Reuters) - Two far-right U.S. politicians who want to upend the way votes are cast and counted are tied or leading in races to become the top ...
Sep 30, 2022
Liberal Justice Jackson joins a rightward-moving U.S. Supreme Court
By Nate Raymond (Reuters) - President Joe Biden's liberal appointee Ketanji Brown Jackson, set to hear arguments for the first time on Monday as a U.S. Supreme Court justice, joins the nation's top ju...
Sep 30, 2022
U.S. House expected to pass stopgap government funding bill
By Moira Warburton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives is expected on Friday to pass a bill funding the federal government through Dec. 16, avoiding an embarrassing partial shutdo...
Sep 30, 2022
U.S. judge says Trump will not be required to attest to accuracy of FBI’s list of seized records
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A federal judge on Thursday ruled that former President Donald Trump does not have to provide the court with a sworn statement attesting to whether a list of items seized by the...
Sep 29, 2022
No. 2 U.S. House Democrat noncommittal on stock-trading bill, no vote soon
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The No. 2 Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives declined to say if he would hold a vote on a bill restricting members of Congress and other government officials from tra...
Sep 29, 2022
U.S. Senate sets vote on temporary gov’t funding bill for Thursday
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate will hold a vote at 1:45 p.m. (1745 GMT) on passing a bill extending government funding through Dec. 16 and avoiding partial government shutdowns that otherwise ...
Sep 29, 2022
Six states sue to halt Biden’s bid to forgive student loans
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Six states filed a challenge to the Biden administration's student loan cancellation program in federal court in Missouri on Thursday, Nebraska Attorney General Doug Peterson sa...
Sep 29, 2022
