Category Archives: (Sandbox) Politics
U.S. Senator Menendez charged with bribery -prosecutors
NEW YORK (Reuters) -U.S. Senator Robert Menendez, a Democrat from New Jersey, and his wife have been charged with bribery offenses in connection with their relationship with three New Jersey businessm...
Sep 22, 2023
Trump, NY attorney general to argue over scope of looming fraud trial
By Karen Freifeld and Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - Donald Trump's lawyers on Friday will try to persuade a New York judge to throw out, just 10 days before a scheduled trial, most or all of s...
Sep 22, 2023
Analysis-Republican-proposed attacks on Mexican cartels could lead to American casualties
By Jonathan Landay, Idrees Ali and Gram Slattery WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sending troops or firing missiles into Mexico to battle cartels, as proposed by Republican 2024 presidential candidates includin...
Sep 22, 2023
US gov’t shutdown could slow House Republicans’ Biden impeachment inquiry
By Makini Brice WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The looming U.S. government shutdown that some hardline Republicans, including Donald Trump, are cheering for could slow one of their other priorities: The recen...
Sep 22, 2023
Biden sets up White House office on gun violence prevention -officials
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden is establishing a new office of gun violence prevention, to be overseen by Vice President Kamala Harris, and is bringing in leading advocates to help run...
Sep 21, 2023
Factbox-US government shutdown: What closes, what stays open?
(Reuters) - Many U.S. government services would be disrupted and hundreds of thousands of federal workers furloughed without pay if Congress fails to provide funding for the fiscal year starting Oct. ...
Sep 21, 2023
Trump urges government shutdown in unlikely bid to ‘defund’ his criminal prosecutions
(Reuters) - Former President Donald Trump has urged fellow Republicans in Congress to shut down the government to thwart the federal prosecutions against him, although any funding lapse was unlikely t...
Sep 21, 2023
Ex-Bridgewater CEO McCormick to make Pennsylvania Senate run official Thursday – sources
By Jarrett Renshaw PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - David McCormick, a former hedge fund executive who lost the Republican primary for Pennsylvania's open Senate seat last year, will announce on Thursday that...
Sep 21, 2023
US House Republicans look to restart spending agenda with defense vote
By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy will try to restart his stalled Republican spending agenda on Thursday, with a procedural vote on a fiscal 2024 defense appropr...
Sep 21, 2023
U.S. House Problem Solvers Caucus issues framework to avert gov’t shutdowns
By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bipartisan group of lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives late on Wednesday announced they had embraced a framework for legislation providing stopgap...
Sep 20, 2023
