Category Archives: (Sandbox) Politics
Factbox-How a US government shutdown would affect foreign policy
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - If Congress fails to provide funding for the fiscal year starting on Sunday and the government shuts down, the effects will be felt around the world, with many workers furloughe...
Sep 29, 2023
Factbox-Key dates in the 2024 US presidential race
(Reuters) - Nine main Republican candidates are jostling to be their party's presidential nominee in the 2024 election, while President Joe Biden faces two long-shot challenges for the Democratic nomi...
Sep 29, 2023
Trump ally Scott Hall agrees to plea deal in Georgia elections case
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Republican poll watcher Scott Hall on Friday pleaded guilty to five criminal counts in the Georgia elections case, according to a live feed of a court hearing. Hall and 1...
Sep 29, 2023
Republican infighting defeats US House bill to avert shutdown
(Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives on Friday rejected a Republican short-term spending measure aimed at averting a government shutdown, raising the odds that federal agencies will cease ope...
Sep 29, 2023
Analysis-Feinstein’s death poses two big questions for US Senate Democrats
By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The death of trailblazing U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein presented her fellow Democrats with two key questions on Friday: Who will replace her in the chamber and...
Sep 29, 2023
Top US general Mark Milley to hand over reins after four years
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Top U.S. general Mark Milley will retire on Friday after a four-year tenure that saw successes like the killing of ISIS head Abu Bakr al Baghdadi and helping Ukraine to defend a...
Sep 29, 2023
Biden would veto House bill on spending reduction, border security -White House
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden would veto a border security and spending reduction bill passed by the House of Representatives, the White House's Office of Management and Budget said ...
Sep 29, 2023
Reaction to Democratic U.S. Senator Feinstein’s death
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Long-serving U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein, a California Democrat, has died at 90, a source familiar with the news said on Friday, although Feinstein's office did not immediatel...
Sep 29, 2023
Long-serving US Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein dead at 90
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Dianne Feinstein, a long-serving Democratic U.S. senator from California and gun control advocate who spearheaded the first federal assault weapons ban and documen...
Sep 29, 2023
Republican anti-Trump money splits: Spend now, or wait until 2024?
By Alexandra Ulmer and Tim Reid (Reuters) - A split is emerging among Republican anti-Donald Trump groups desperate to prevent the former president, who is dominating the party's presidential nominati...
Sep 29, 2023
