Category Archives: (Sandbox) Politics

By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland on Monday said the Justice Department is "seriously and urgently investigating" how states are changing voting procedures...

(Reuters) - The U.S. Congress has about two weeks to raise the federal government's $28.4 trillion debt ceiling or cause a historic default that would take a heavy toll on the economy. The parties are...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden will hold a virtual meeting with left-leaning progressive lawmakers from the House of Representatives on Monday afternoon to discuss a social spending bill, ...

By Linda So WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. senator introduced legislation on Monday to broaden protections for election workers, their family members and physical polling locations in response to a Reu...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic Senator Ed Markey on Monday asked for answers from Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg after new research suggested the social media company failed to prevent di...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Monday urged lawmakers to pass a bill to raise or suspend the federal government's $28.4 trillion debt ceiling by the end of the wee...

By Trevor Hunnicutt, Nandita Bose and Jarrett Renshaw WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Last October, presidential candidate Joe Biden flew to Warm Springs, Georgia just days before the national election, to com...

By Lawrence Hurley and Andrew Chung WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Supreme Court justices are set to don their black robes and sit once more behind a mahogany bench in their grand courtroom on Monday as ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said on Sunday the goal would be to get both an infrastructure bill and a multi-trillion-dollar social spending bill passed in the next...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A senior White House adviser said on Sunday that Democrats will be disappointed as the party trims President Joe Biden's agenda to fit political realities on Capitol Hill, but v...