Category Archives: (Sandbox) Politics
Sarah Palin announces run for U.S. House seat from Alaska -NY Times
(Reuters) -Sarah Palin, the Republican nominee for vice president in 2008, will run for Alaska's only seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, the New York Times reported on Friday. It would be Pali...
Apr 01, 2022
First missing, murdered indigenous alert system created in U.S.
(Reuters) - Washington state has become the first in the United States to pass a law that creates an alert system for missing indigenous people. Governor Jay Inslee, a Democrat, on Thursday signed the...
Apr 01, 2022
Trump ally Devin Nunes loses Washington Post defamation appeal
By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Friday rejected former congressman Devin Nunes' effort to revive a $250 million lawsuit accusing the Washington Post of defamation for implying ...
Apr 01, 2022
Bill to legalize marijuana passes U.S. House, but faces dim prospects in Senate
By Moira Warburton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives on Friday passed a bill to end the federal ban on marijuana, which has created legal headaches for users and businesses in t...
Apr 01, 2022
U.S. to end COVID order blocking asylum seekers at border
By Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States will end a sweeping, pandemic-related expulsion policy that has effectively closed down the U.S. asylum system at the border with Mexico, Homeland...
Apr 01, 2022
U.S. senators call for planting on conserved land in response to Ukraine crisis
By Leah Douglas (Reuters) - Two U.S. Senators are joining farm groups and other lawmakers in calling on the Department of Agriculture to allow farmers to plant conserved acres this spring in response ...
Apr 01, 2022
White House spokesperson Psaki to depart for MSNBC -Axios
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Jen Psaki is expected to leave her job as White House spokesperson this spring, Axios reported on Friday, citing an unnamed source close to the matter. (Reporting by Susan Heave...
Apr 01, 2022
Three U.S. House Democrats seek documents from Amazon on labor practices
(Reuters) - Three U.S. House Democrats including the chair of the Oversight Committee on Friday asked Amazon.com to turn over documents detailing Amazon's labor practices especially during severe weat...
Apr 01, 2022
At California gas station, Republicans woo voters angry over fuel prices – but it’s complicated
By Sharon Bernstein GARDEN GROVE, Calif. (Reuters) - A half-dozen mostly young Republican activists stood gamely outside of a Chevron station at a busy Southern California intersection, jumping up and...
Apr 01, 2022
Man faces sentencing for bringing guns, Molotov cocktails to U.S. Capitol ahead of riot
By Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An Alabama man on Friday could be sentenced to more than three years in prison for bringing a pickup truck full of firearms, ammunition, and Molotov cocktails to Wa...
Apr 01, 2022
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