Category Archives: (Sandbox) Politics
White House denies ‘split’ strategy for COVID-19 relief legislation
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House on Thursday denied a media report that it could split President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief proposal into two bills, as part of a strategy to get t...
Jan 28, 2021
Ukraine opens criminal case into meddling in U.S. election
KYIV (Reuters) - Ukraine has launched a criminal investigation into attempts to interfere in the U.S. presidential election, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's office said in a statement on the president...
Jan 28, 2021
U.S. Congress Republicans face dilemma in controversies around Cheney, Greene
By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The deep divisions roiling the U.S. Republican Party came into clear focus this week in controversies about Representatives Liz Cheney and Marjorie Taylor Green...
Jan 28, 2021
At the urging of nursing homes, a law is amended and COVID court claims are slowed
By Tom Hals (Reuters) - Garnice Robertson wants accountability for her mother's death from COVID-19 caught while she was living at a Kansas nursing home that allegedly failed to prevent an outbreak of...
Jan 28, 2021
Biden to reopen online health insurance marketplaces
By Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden will reopen the nation's online health insurance marketplace for people who cannot obtain coverage through their employers, the Whit...
Jan 28, 2021
U.S. returns indictment against Oath Keeper members over plot to storm U.S. Capitol
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. has secured an indictment against three members of the far-right "Oath Keepers" militia, charging they conspired to storm the U.S. Capitol in a bid to stop Congress fro...
Jan 27, 2021
Pentagon to include climate risk in war gaming, defense secretary says
By Idrees Ali and Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon said on Wednesday it would include the risk of climate change in military simulations and war gaming, after President Joe Biden signe...
Jan 27, 2021
Exclusive: Family of Black man killed by Cincinnati store owner seeks federal civil rights probe
By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) - The family of an unarmed Black man who was shot dead by a white store owner in Cincinnati asked the U.S. Justice Department on Wednesday to open a civil rights investigati...
Jan 27, 2021
Biden administration temporarily holds some U.S. weapons exports: official
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The incoming Biden administration has temporarily paused some pending arms sales to U.S. allies in order to review them, a U.S. State Department official said on Wednesday. Weap...
Jan 27, 2021
Biden says he will ask Congress to eliminate subsidies for fossil fuels
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden on Wednesday said he will ask the U.S. Congress to eliminate subsidies for fossil fuels on a day he signed executive actions to combat climate change. The co...
Jan 27, 2021
