Category Archives: (Sandbox) Politics
Former business partner of Giuliani associate gets one year in jail
NEW YORK (Reuters) - An ex-business partner of Lev Parnas, a onetime associate of former U.S. President Donald Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, was sentenced on Monday to one year and a day in p...
Feb 08, 2021
U.S. Senator Shelby will not seek reelection: statement
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican U.S. Senator Richard Shelby said on Monday he would not seek reelection for a seventh term in 2022. Shelby, 86, was first elected to the Senate in 1986 as a Democrat ...
Feb 08, 2021
Texas Republican first in U.S. Congress to die from COVID-19
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Representative Ron Wright died after testing positive for COVID-19 last month, his office said on Monday, making him the first member of the U.S. Congress to die from the p...
Feb 08, 2021
Scarred by riot, U.S. Capitol a fortress for Trump impeachment trial
By Makini Brice WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Less than five weeks after the deadly assault on the U.S. Capitol that sparked former President Donald Trump's second impeachment trial, the complex is a fortres...
Feb 08, 2021
Trump faces trial filing deadline as second Senate impeachment proceeding looms
By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former President Trump faced a deadline to submit a pretrial brief on Monday, a day before the Senate is due to begin his second impeachment trial on a charge of...
Feb 08, 2021
Biden administration moves to rejoin U.N. Human Rights Council
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden's administration will reengage with the United Nations Human Rights Council, three years after former President Donald Trump withdrew over what his admi...
Feb 07, 2021
U.S. Senate to pause Trump impeachment trial at end of week for Sabbath
By Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate will pause former President Donald Trump's impeachment trial from Friday evening to Saturday evening this week to honor a request by a Trump attorn...
Feb 07, 2021
Biden administration suspends Trump asylum deals with El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Biden administration said on Saturday it was immediately suspending Trump-era asylum agreements with El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, part of a bid to undo his Republica...
Feb 06, 2021
Biden to raise current U.S. refugee cap from historic lows
By Ted Hesson and Mimi Dwyer (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden plans to raise the refugee cap for the current fiscal year to 62,500, a sharp increase from the 15,000 set by former President Donald ...
Feb 05, 2021
Biden says Trump should not receive intelligence briefings: CBS interview
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden does not believe his predecessor Donald Trump should have access to any intelligence briefings because of his "erratic behavior," Biden said in an inter...
Feb 05, 2021
