Category Archives: (Sandbox) Politics
FBI warning played a role in Facebook downplaying NY Post report, Zuckerberg says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said on Wednesday that a warning from the FBI on hack-and-leak operations before the Nov. 3 presidential election played a role in i...
Oct 28, 2020
Biden urges end to looting after Philadelphia Black man’s killing
WILMINGTON, Del. (Reuters) - U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden on Wednesday urged calm amid ongoing unrest after a Black man was shot dead this week by police in Philadelphia, saying prot...
Oct 28, 2020
Trump administration sets record low limit for new U.S. refugees
(Reuters) - The Trump administration has slashed the number of refugees it will allow to resettle in the United States in the coming year, capping the number at 15,000, a record low in the history of ...
Oct 28, 2020
Best of times, or the worst? A voter’s guide to U.S. GDP
By Ann Saphir and Howard Schneider (Reuters) - When accountants at the federal Bureau of Economic Analysis release the latest U.S. gross domestic product report on Thursday, it may be the most fought-...
Oct 28, 2020
New Jersey congressman Van Drew, who ditched Democrats for Trump, battling to keep seat
By Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said New Jersey congressman Jeff Van Drew had "guts" when he abandoned the Democratic Party to join the Republicans, while an opponent n...
Oct 28, 2020
‘Baffled’ and ‘scared,’ U.S. felons face hurdles after regaining right to vote
By Tom Hals (Reuters) - Nine years after completing a prison sentence for a gang-related shooting, Angel Sanchez cast his first ballot in a U.S. presidential election on Saturday, one of a growing num...
Oct 28, 2020
Staggering early vote turnout boosts hopes for Biden in Texas
By Joseph Ax and Brad Brooks HOUSTON (Reuters) - Less than a week before Election Day, Joe Biden is tantalizingly close to a prize that has eluded generations of Democratic presidential candidates: Te...
Oct 28, 2020
Too hard to vote? Fired-up Black voters are doing it anyway
By Joseph Tanfani and Michael Martina (Reuters) - In the historically black neighborhoods of Waco, Texas, the usual get-out-the-vote activities in this presidential election year were upended by the p...
Oct 28, 2020
New York police arrest 30 amid protests after deadly Philadelphia shooting
By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) - New York police arrested about 30 people as hundreds of protesters took to the streets in Brooklyn late on Tuesday following a deadly police shooting in Philadelphia of a...
Oct 28, 2020
With six days left in race, Trump heads to Arizona and Biden delivers COVID-19 speech
By Jeff Mason and Ernest Scheyder LAS VEGAS/WILMINGTON, Del. (Reuters) - President Donald Trump will hold two campaign rallies on Wednesday in the battleground state of Arizona, where polls show him n...
Oct 28, 2020
