Category Archives: (Sandbox) Politics
Fractured US House Republicans to try again to elect a leader
By David Morgan, Moira Warburton and Makini Brice WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives will hold a third vote to elect a speaker on Thursday, in an attempt to overco...
Oct 19, 2023
US House lawmaker receives death threats after voting against Jordan for speaker
By Moira Warburton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Representative Mariannette Miller-Meeks has received "credible death threats," she said in a statement on Wednesday, after voting against Representative ...
Oct 18, 2023
US House Republican opponents of Jordan’s speaker bid cite government shutdown worries
By Moira Warburton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two moderate Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives who have voted against Jim Jordan's bid for speaker said they did so out of concern that their h...
Oct 18, 2023
Hardline Republican Jim Jordan to make second attempt at top US House job
By David Morgan, Moira Warburton and Katharine Jackson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Outspoken conservative Jim Jordan will try again to win the top job in the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday, as ...
Oct 18, 2023
US special counsel withdraws subpoena on Trump’s political fundraising group -report
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Special Counsel Jack Smith has withdrawn a subpoena seeking records about fundraising by the political action committee Save America, which is controlled ...
Oct 17, 2023
U.S. lawmakers expect Biden spending request this week, Israel wants $10 billion – source
By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate leaders said on Tuesday they expect President Joe Biden to send them a request by the end of this week for billions of dollars in assistance for...
Oct 17, 2023
Donald Trump returns to New York for civil fraud trial
By Jack Queen (Reuters) - Donald Trump is set to appear in New York court on Tuesday for the third week of a civil fraud trial that could dismantle pillars of the former U.S. president's business empi...
Oct 17, 2023
Hardline Republican Jim Jordan makes grab for US House speaker’s gavel
By David Morgan, Makini Brice and Moira Warburton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican Jim Jordan will try to claim the gavel of the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday in a vote that...
Oct 17, 2023
US Senator Menendez’s arraignment on new charges moved to Oct. 23 -judge
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Bob Menendez's arraignment on new charges that he conspired to act as a foreign agent for Egypt has been rescheduled for Oct. 23, a federal judge in New York said o...
Oct 16, 2023
Potential Biden trip to Israel rife with security, political challenges
By Trevor Hunnicutt and Jarrett Renshaw WASHINGTON/TEL AVIV (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden's White House is wrestling with a host of thorny security and political challenges as officials plot a ...
Oct 16, 2023
