Category Archives: (Sandbox) Politics
Trump’s former fixer Cohen interviewed by Manhattan DA’s office and newly hired litigator
By Jason Szep and Peter Eisler (Reuters) - The Manhattan District Attorney's Office and a newly hired high-profile litigator interviewed Donald Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen, on Thursday, as pa...
Feb 18, 2021
South Carolina passes abortion ban, Planned Parenthood sues
By Rich McKay (Reuters) - South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster on Thursday signed into law a ban on almost all abortions in the state and the women's health group Planned Parenthood followed with a ...
Feb 18, 2021
Facebook, Google, Twitter CEOs will appear before U.S. House panel on March 25
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The chief executives of Facebook Inc, Alphabet Inc and Twitter will testify before a U.S. House panel on March 25 on "misinformation and disinformation plaguing online platforms...
Feb 18, 2021
Harris taps growing political power of women lawmakers to promote COVID-19 relief
By Nandita Bose and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris met with female Democratic lawmakers and activists on Thursday to boost support for the White House's $1.9 tr...
Feb 18, 2021
U.S. Senate panel to hold Feb 23 hearing on ‘SolarWinds’ hack
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate intelligence committee will hold a hearing next week on the recent hack against the United States with executives from SolarWinds, Microsoft, FireEye and CrowdSt...
Feb 18, 2021
Biden to focus on COVID-19, China at G7’s Friday meeting – White House
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden will discuss the worldwide response to the COVID-19 pandemic and efforts to rebuild the global economy in his meeting with G7 leaders on Friday, White H...
Feb 18, 2021
White House revokes Trump order limiting climate change in federal reviews
By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Biden administration on Thursday revoked a Trump administration policy that aimed to prevent federal agencies from weighing climate change impacts in th...
Feb 18, 2021
Former U.S. Senator Dole says he has lung cancer
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former U.S. Republican Senator Bob Dole, who unsuccessfully ran for president in 1996, said on Thursday that he has been diagnosed with advanced lung cancer and will undergo tre...
Feb 18, 2021
Democrats to introduce Biden immigration bill amid long odds to passage
By Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats will on Thursday formally introduce President Joe Biden's sweeping immigration bill in Congress, a measure that would provide a path to U.S. citizenship ...
Feb 18, 2021
‘I just ask God to help me’: Texas funeral home crushed by death as U.S. COVID toll nears 500,000
By Callaghan O'Hare and Maria Caspani HOUSTON (Reuters) - Sunday is traditionally a quiet day for Chuck Pryor's Houston funeral home, but on this Sunday in February, almost a year after the global pan...
Feb 18, 2021
