Category Archives: (Sandbox) Politics
Former Trump lawyer Ellis strikes deal in Georgia case -report
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Another one-time lawyer for former President Donald Trump, Jenna Ellis, has struck a plea deal with Georgia prosecutors in the election interference case in Georgia, an Atlanta ...
Oct 24, 2023
Trump makes fresh push to have 2020 election subversion case tossed
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Donald Trump stepped up his bid to have criminal charges against him over efforts to overturn his 2020 U.S. presidential election loss dropped, filing a flurry of motions overni...
Oct 24, 2023
Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen set to testify at ex-president’s civil fraud trial
By Jack Queen (Reuters) - Michael Cohen, Donald Trump's former lawyer and fixer, is expected to take the stand on Tuesday as a key witness against the former president in a civil fraud case that threa...
Oct 24, 2023
US House Republicans try – again – to pick a leader
By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday will try again to fill a leadership vacuum that has paralyzed the chamber for three weeks and left Co...
Oct 24, 2023
Republican Scott to boost staff, resources in Iowa as presidential campaign flags
(Reuters) - U.S. Senator Tim Scott is increasing his staff in Iowa and shifting resources to the early voting state as he seeks to revive his languishing campaign to be the Republican 2024 presidentia...
Oct 23, 2023
Factbox-Republican leadership fight means growing backlog of bills in US House
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Infighting among Republicans who control the U.S. House of Representatives has left that chamber leaderless for three weeks, preventing Congress from taking up urgent legislatio...
Oct 23, 2023
US Senator Menendez to be arraigned on foreign agent charge
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Bob Menendez is set to enter a plea on Monday to a new indictment charging him with conspiring to act as an unregistered foreign agent for the Egyptian g...
Oct 23, 2023
Republican search for new US House leader returns to square one
By David Morgan and Katharine Jackson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans, whose party infighting has paralyzed the U.S. House of Representatives for three weeks, will begin again on Monday to try to p...
Oct 23, 2023
‘I am a Zionist’: How Joe Biden’s lifelong bond with Israel shapes war policy
By Matt Spetalnick, Jeff Mason, Steve Holland and Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When Joe Biden met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his war cabinet during his visit to Israel, the...
Oct 21, 2023
Judge temporarily lifts Trump gag order in federal 2020 election case
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Friday temporarily lifted a partial gag order she had imposed limiting Donald Trump's public statements about the federal criminal case in which the former presi...
Oct 20, 2023
