Category Archives: (Sandbox) Politics
Moderates fleeing U.S. House, setting stage for more Washington gridlock
By Joseph Ax and Jason Lange (Reuters) - Moderate members of the U.S. House of Representatives are leaving office at twice the rate of their more partisan peers this year, a Reuters analysis found, li...
Sep 14, 2022
Biden to promote shift to EVs in visit to Detroit auto show
By David Shepardson DETROIT (Reuters) - President Joe Biden plans to take a victory lap on Wednesday at the Detroit auto show, highlighting automakers' increasing shift to electric vehicles and billio...
Sep 14, 2022
California’s Newsom signs bill requiring social media firms transparency
(Reuters) - California Governor Gavin Newsom said on Tuesday he had signed a bill into law requiring transparency of social media companies, a move that could draw criticism from tech firms and indust...
Sep 14, 2022
Bidens fly home to Delaware to cast votes
WILMINGTON, Del. (Reuters) - President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden flew home to Delaware on Tuesday night to cast their ballots in the state's primary election, arriving shortly before the pol...
Sep 13, 2022
Analysis-Despite U.S. inflation’s bite, Democratic voters are energized for midterms
By Jason Lange and Tim Reid WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The unexpected rise in inflation reported on Tuesday was an unwelcome blow for President Joe Biden's Democrats, but a new Reuters/Ipsos poll shows De...
Sep 13, 2022
West Virginia lawmakers approve near-total abortion ban
By Sharon Bernstein (Reuters) - West Virginia lawmakers on Tuesday passed a sweeping abortion ban, prohibiting the procedure even in the earliest days of pregnancy with limited exceptions for rape, in...
Sep 13, 2022
Trump ally wins bid to bar photos of ‘lavish properties’ from foreign agent trial
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Tuesday ruled that prosecutors cannot show pictures of "lavish properties" owned by Tom Barrack, a former top fundraiser for Donald Trump, at Barrack'...
Sep 13, 2022
U.S. Senator thinks Twitter and Facebook may need a license to operate
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Lindsay Graham, a Republican critic of social media companies like Meta's Facebook and Twitter, said on Tuesday that he wants create a way to regulate, and perhaps ...
Sep 13, 2022
U.S. August budget deficit widens from a year earlier
(Reuters) - The U.S. government posted a $220 billion budget deficit for August, up 29% from the $171 billion gap reported in the same month last year, as spending on health services, education and in...
Sep 13, 2022
Energy permitting bill to be attached to stop-gap spending bill -U.S. Senate leader Schumer
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bill aimed at updating federal permitting of energy pipelines and other facilities will be attached to a temporary spending bill that must be enacted before Sept. 30, U.S. Sen...
Sep 13, 2022
