Category Archives: (Sandbox) Politics
Biden names national security official to oversee global health security
WILMINGTON, Del. (Reuters) - President-elect Joe Biden plans to add a senior national security official overseeing global health security, restoring a government function cut by the Trump administrati...
Jan 08, 2021
White House’s Kudlow not resigning, but taking vacation this month: CNBC
NEW YORK (Reuters) - White House Economic Adviser Larry Kudlow will stay in his post until President-elect Joe Biden is inaugurated on Jan. 20, but will take unused vacation this month, CNBC reported ...
Jan 08, 2021
Democrats consider second Trump impeachment after Capitol siege
By Richard Cowan and Joseph Ax WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congressional Democrats accused U.S. President Donald Trump of inciting insurrection and weighed up impeaching him for a second time after support...
Jan 08, 2021
Trump’s fans condemn violence, but they aren’t about to blame him
By Brad Brooks and Nathan Layne LAMESA, Texas/HOMER, Ga (Reuters) - Eddie Emerson worked his fly fishing pole back and forth, tossing his line into a pond in West Texas, searching for stocked trout an...
Jan 08, 2021
Trump’s political future in peril after Capitol attack, advisers say
By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The violent assault on the U.S. Capitol by President Donald Trump's supporters and his long refusal to accept the results of the 2020 election have jeopardized the...
Jan 08, 2021
U.S. lawmakers say police downplayed threat of violence before Capitol siege
By Susan Cornwell, Linda So, Michael Berens, Andrea Januta and Joseph Tanfani (Reuters) - As the mob swarmed into the U.S. Capitol, Pennsylvania congresswoman Susan Wild took cover, squeezing into a t...
Jan 08, 2021
Democrats inch toward second Trump impeachment after Capitol siege
By Richard Cowan and Joseph Ax WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congressional Democrats were moving closer to a historic step on Friday as they weighed impeaching President Donald Trump for a second time, two d...
Jan 08, 2021
U.S. role as democracy’s champion battered by assault on Capitol
By Arshad Mohammed and Jonathan Landay WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States will find it harder to advocate for democracy and rule of law abroad after the assault on the U.S. Capitol unless it gra...
Jan 07, 2021
Vice President Pence opposes using 25th amendment to remove Trump: Business Insider, NY Times
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Vice President Mike Pence opposes using the 25th amendment to remove President Donald Trump from power, according to reports from Business Insider and the New York Times. Democr...
Jan 07, 2021
U.S. House Judiciary Chairman Nadler supports immediate impeachment of Trump
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump should be impeached and removed from office "immediately," House of Representatives Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler said in a statement on Thu...
Jan 07, 2021
