Category Archives: (Sandbox) Politics
US Rep Bowman faces investigation after pulling fire alarm at Capitol
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic U.S. Representative Jamaal Bowman faced investigation on Sunday, the morning after he pulled a fire alarm in the Capitol complex as his party was trying to delay a ke...
Oct 01, 2023
Major tests await conservative US Supreme Court in new term
By John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Monday marks the first day of the U.S. Supreme Court's new term as it prepares to tackle major cases involving gun rights, the power of federal agencies, social m...
Oct 01, 2023
US near-miss with government shutdown illustrates Washington dysfunction
By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. narrowly dodged its fourth partial government shutdown in a decade on Sunday, but the past week exposed the depths of political dysfunction in Washingto...
Oct 01, 2023
California governor vetoes bill offering unemployment pay to strikers
(Reuters) - California Governor Gavin Newsom on Saturday vetoed a bill that would have paid unemployment benefits to striking workers, and had drawn strong support from labor unions and from his fello...
Sep 30, 2023
Republican House Speaker McCarthy faces ouster threat for avoiding shutdown
By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Top U.S. House Republican Kevin McCarthy could face an untimely end to his role as speaker if party hardliners oust him, for averting a costly government shutdow...
Sep 30, 2023
Senior Senate Democrat threatens to block military aid to Egypt on human rights grounds
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee said on Saturday that he would block military aid to Egypt if it does not take "concrete, meaningful and sustainable ...
Sep 30, 2023
Americans celebrate Jimmy Carter’s 99th birthday as he receives hospice care
By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Americans celebrated the 99th birthday of former President Jimmy Carter this weekend, with the White House putting up a wooden cake display on its north lawn and t...
Sep 30, 2023
California’s Newsom promoting Biden in ’24 – and perhaps himself in ’28
By Joseph Ax (Reuters) - Shortly after Wednesday's second Republican presidential debate concluded, California Governor Gavin Newsom was holding court in the so-called "spin room," bouncing from one n...
Sep 30, 2023
US Congress tees up votes in last-minute scramble to avert shutdown
By Andy Sullivan and David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lawmakers return to the U.S. Congress on Saturday with no clear path to resolving a squabble that appears likely to close wide swaths of the fe...
Sep 30, 2023
Robert Kennedy Jr to run as independent, could complicate Trump, Biden 2024 contest
By Heather Timmons (Reuters) - U.S. presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will announce he is running as an independent instead of pursuing his long-shot bid to oust President Joe Biden as the De...
Sep 29, 2023
