Category Archives: (Sandbox) Politics
Factbox-Who’s in, who’s out of race to become US House of Representatives speaker?
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top job in the U.S. House of Representatives remained vacant on Friday, after hardline Republican Jim Jordan failed in his third bid for the gavel and dropped out of the rac...
Oct 20, 2023
Long-shot Republican candidate Perry Johnson drops out of White House race
By Tim Reid (Reuters) - Perry Johnson, a businessman and long-shot for the Republican presidential nomination, dropped out of the 2024 White House race on Friday. Johnson failed to qualify for the two...
Oct 20, 2023
Judge raises possibility of imprisonment for Trump for violating gag order -NBC News
(Reuters) -The judge presiding over Donald Trump's $250 million civil fraud trial in New York raised the possibility on Friday of putting the former president behind bars after Trump failed to comply ...
Oct 20, 2023
Inside Ron DeSantis’ fight to stop Trump’s Republican coronation in Iowa
By James Oliphant and Gram Slattery KEOSAUQUA, Iowa (Reuters) - In coffee shops and churches, on farms and front porches, on the phone and through text exchanges, Ron DeSantis' grassroots supporters a...
Oct 20, 2023
Analysis-Republican White House hopefuls embrace killing criminals to fight crime
By Gram Slattery WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fentanyl producers in Mexico should be killed. So too should human traffickers and drug smugglers on the U.S.-Mexico border. Shoplifters should be shot. Drug de...
Oct 20, 2023
Jim Jordan to make third try at top job in paralyzed US House
By David Morgan and Katharine Jackson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives is due to hold a third vote to fill its vacant speaker's chair on Friday, but Republicans who control the...
Oct 20, 2023
Trump not immune from criminal charges in 2020 election case, prosecutors say
By Jack Queen (Reuters) - Donald Trump does not have immunity from criminal charges for trying to reverse his 2020 U.S. presidential election loss, federal prosecutors said Thursday, opposing his bid ...
Oct 19, 2023
California Senator Laphonza Butler won’t seek new US Senate term next year
By Sharon Bernstein SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) - Newly appointed California Senator Laphonza Butler, a Democrat, said on Thursday she will not seek a new U.S. Senate term next year. Butler, a former...
Oct 19, 2023
Jim Jordan will not hold a third ballot for US house speaker – media
(Reuters) - Outspoken U.S. Republican Jim Jordan will not hold a third ballot to be speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and will instead back empowering interim speaker Patrick McHenry, the W...
Oct 19, 2023
Analysis-Trump could gain edge from former lawyers’ Georgia election tampering trial
By Jack Queen (Reuters) - Former President Donald Trump could gain a strategic edge in a criminal case brought against him when two of his former lawyers and co-defendants go on trial next week on cha...
Oct 19, 2023
