Category Archives: (Sandbox) Politics
Trump election website defaced, campaign working with law enforcement
By Raphael Satter WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The presidential election campaign of Donald Trump says its official website was defaced earlier on Tuesday and that it is working with law enforcement to inve...
Oct 27, 2020
First day of Facebook moratorium on new U.S. political ads marked by glitches
By Elizabeth Culliford and Raphael Satter (Reuters) - The first day of Facebook Inc's effort to stop new political advertising being introduced in the final stretch of U.S. election campaigning was ma...
Oct 27, 2020
Texas supreme court says state can limit mail ballot drop-off sites
By Makini Brice WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Texas Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that the state's Republican governor may limit drop-off sites for election ballots, in a political win for U.S. Presiden...
Oct 27, 2020
Michigan judge sides with open-carry of firearms at polling stations
(Reuters) - A Michigan judge sided with gun-rights advocates on Tuesday in allowing the 'open carry' of firearms at polling places on Election Day and blocking enforcement of an order by the state att...
Oct 27, 2020
U.S. Homeland Security agency faulted for election planning around potential violence
By Raphael Satter and Christopher Bing (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's watchdog body said on Tuesday that officials at its Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency had n...
Oct 27, 2020
North Carolina U.S. Senate race a dead heat; Democrat leads in Michigan: Reuters/Ipsos poll
By Jason Lange WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina is statistically even with Democratic challenger Cal Cunningham, while Democratic Senator Gary Peters of Michigan...
Oct 27, 2020
Political adviser sparked COVID-19 outbreak on Vice President Pence team: sources
By Alexandra Alper and Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A political adviser to U.S. Vice President Mike Pence is suspected of sparking an outbreak of the coronavirus on his team that sidelined a seni...
Oct 27, 2020
Biden lead over Trump grows in Michigan; race is statistically even in North Carolina: Reuters/Ipsos
By Jason Lange WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden's lead over President Donald Trump in Michigan is looking increasingly comfortable but the two remain neck and neck in...
Oct 27, 2020
Two largest U.S. airline flight attendant unions endorse Biden
CHICAGO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The two largest U.S. flight attendant unions, representing more than 75,000 workers, endorsed Democratic candidate Joe Biden on Tuesday ahead of the U.S. presidential el...
Oct 27, 2020
U.S. Supreme Court’s divisions in voting cases put spotlight on Barrett
By Lawrence Hurley and Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Divisions within the U.S. Supreme Court exposed in its decision preventing a deadline extension for mail-in ballots in Wisconsin indicate how ne...
Oct 27, 2020
