Category Archives: (Sandbox) Politics
Biden weighs former EPA chief McCarthy for domestic climate czar: sources
By Jarrett Renshaw Wilmington, Delaware (Reuters) - President-elect Joe Biden is considering appointing Gina McCarthy, who headed the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under former President Barack...
Dec 13, 2020
Trump, Pence, other top officials to be offered COVID-19 vaccine: source
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and other top U.S. officials will be offered the newly approved COVID-19 vaccine beginning Monday, according to a source f...
Dec 13, 2020
Hoyer suggests U.S. Democrats might do without state, local aid for COVID-19 relief
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives' No. 2 Democrat, Steny Hoyer, suggested on Sunday his party might be willing to accept a coronavirus relief deal without the state and local ai...
Dec 13, 2020
Trump revives threat to veto defense bill, teeing up battle with lawmakers
By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday repeated his threat to veto a massive defense spending bill, setting the stage for a major battle with U.S. lawmakers at a...
Dec 13, 2020
Twitter says it ‘inadvertently’ limited engagements on Trump’s flagged tweets
By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) - Twitter Inc said on Saturday it had "inadvertently" limited engagements for a brief period on U.S. President Donald Trump's tweets with "disputed" labels but later revers...
Dec 12, 2020
Trump lashes out at Supreme Court, Barr as efforts to overturn election fizzle
By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump lambasted the Supreme Court on Saturday for declining to take a case he hoped would overturn President-elect Joe Biden's election victory an...
Dec 12, 2020
Pro-Trump groups to march and pray to protest president’s election loss
By Jonathan Landay WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Conservative groups that allege without evidence that President-elect Joe Biden stole the U.S. election from Donald Trump plan protests nationwide on Saturday...
Dec 12, 2020
U.S. Supreme Court rejects Texas lawsuit and Trump bid to undo election loss
By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday brought an abrupt end to a long-shot lawsuit filed by Texas and backed by President Donald Trump seeking to throw out voting r...
Dec 11, 2020
Devin Nunes, prominent Trump ally, says he had COVID-19 antibodies
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Representative Devin Nunes, an ardent supporter of President Donald Trump, told a California radio station on Friday that he had tested positive for antibodies of COVID-19,...
Dec 11, 2020
Biden’s agriculture secretary pick disappoints Black farmers
By Christopher Walljasper CHICAGO (Reuters) - President-elect Joe Biden has promised to address racial inequality in agriculture. But some Black farmers aren't so sure he picked the right man for the ...
Dec 11, 2020
