Category Archives: (Sandbox) Politics
Republicans call for Senate review before U.S. re-enters Paris climate deal
By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A group of Republican senators on Wednesday called on newly sworn-in President Joe Biden to submit his plan to re-engage the United States in the Paris clim...
Jan 20, 2021
‘No plan, no Q, nothing’: QAnon followers reel as Biden inaugurated
By Joseph Menn, Elizabeth Culliford, Katie Paul and Carrie Monahan SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - For three years, adherents of the sprawling QAnon conspiracy theory awaited a so-called Great Awak...
Jan 20, 2021
Biden takes sweeping Day One action on energy, climate, immigration
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday began signing 15 executive actions addressing the coronavirus pandemic, climate change and racial inequality, and undoing some policies put...
Jan 20, 2021
Democrats take narrow control of U.S. Senate as three new members sworn in
By Patricia Zengerle and Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats took control of the U.S. Senate on Wednesday when Vice President Kamala Harris swore in three new members to give the party a n...
Jan 20, 2021
Biden’s push for more coronavirus aid to test his ‘honeymoon’ with U.S. Congress
By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in the U.S. Congress on Wednesday signaled a willingness to work with President Joe Biden on additional money to combat the coronavirus pandemic, th...
Jan 20, 2021
Daniel Smith appointed acting U.S. secretary of state
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Daniel Smith, director of the Foreign Service Institute (FSI), has been appointed acting secretary of state following Joe Biden's swearing in as President, a White House officia...
Jan 20, 2021
Trump pardons former editor of Kushner-owned newspaper
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Ken Kurson, a family friend of Donald Trump and editor of a New York newspaper once owned by the former U.S. president's son-in-law Jared Kushner, was among those pardoned by Trum...
Jan 20, 2021
Trump’s vice president Pence applauds successor at inauguration
By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Outgoing U.S. Vice President Mike Pence and his wife Karen attended the inauguration of new President Joe Biden on Wednesday after skipping both a farewell cere...
Jan 20, 2021
Newsmaker: Trump exits after four turbulent years, his presidency in tatters
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Donald Trump led the United States for four tumultuous years with a right-wing populist approach and an "America First" message, but left office with his presiden...
Jan 20, 2021
Biden sworn in as U.S. president
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrat Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th president of the United States on Wednesday during a ceremony at a heavily protected U.S. Capitol, ending the tumultuous four-year pr...
Jan 20, 2021
