Category Archives: (Sandbox) Politics
Explainer: The legal questions left unanswered by Trump’s impeachment trial
By Jan Wolfe (Reuters) - The impeachment trial of Donald Trump took the U.S. government into new legal territory, highlighting unresolved questions about how to address allegations of misconduct by a ...
Feb 17, 2021
Biden will ask DOJ to review his authority to cancel student loan debt – White House
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden will ask the Department of Justice to review his legal authority to cancel student loan debt, the White House said on Wednesday, adding the president does no...
Feb 17, 2021
White House says would support a study of slavery reparations
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters on Wednesday the Biden administration would support a study on whether descendants of enslaved people in the United States shoul...
Feb 17, 2021
Biden will press for COVID relief plan with AFL-CIO, other labor leaders
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden will meet with top labor leaders at the White House on Wednesday to discuss his $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief plan and the need to modernize U.S. infrastr...
Feb 17, 2021
U.S. lawmakers ask Blinken for briefing on Nord Stream 2 natgas pipeline
By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Several U.S. Representatives on Wednesday raised pressure on the State Department to share plans on potential sanctions on the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipel...
Feb 17, 2021
U.S. faithful mark Ash Wednesday from a distance, celebrate Purim with drive-through carnivals
By Sharon Bernstein and Rich McKay (Reuters) - Kimberly Hendricks will usher in the somber Christian period of Lent on Ash Wednesday from the parking lot of her Sacramento church instead of its sanctu...
Feb 17, 2021
Biden suggests more police funding, no jail for drug offenders
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden outlined changes he hopes to make to criminal justice and policing in the United States during a town hall Tuesday night, highlighting issues that his admini...
Feb 16, 2021
Trump says Republicans will not win again if they stick with ‘hack’ McConnell
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former U.S. President Donald Trump attacked Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday in a sharply worded statement in the fallout over his impeachment trial. "Mitch is ...
Feb 16, 2021
Giuliani not currently representing Trump in legal matters – Trump spokesman
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former President Donald Trump's long-time lawyer and confidant Rudy Giuliani is not representing Trump in legal matters at this time, Trump spokesman Jason Miller said on Tuesda...
Feb 16, 2021
Republican Perdue eyes fresh Senate run in 2022, says Georgia ‘not a blue state’
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Republican U.S. Senator David Perdue, who lost his seat last month in a hotly contested Georgia run-off vote, said on Tuesday he was considering running again in 2022, th...
Feb 16, 2021
