Category Archives: (Sandbox) Politics
Jared and Ivanka threaten lawsuit over Times Square billboards
By Jonathan Landay WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's daughter and son-in-law, both top White House aides, are threatening to sue a group of anti-Trump Republicans for posting billboard a...
Oct 24, 2020
New Florida resident Trump casts presidential ballot for himself
By Steve Holland WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump voted in his new home state of Florida on Saturday, casting his ballot for his re-election at a public library across the...
Oct 24, 2020
Exclusive: U.S. State Department suspends all diversity training after Trump’s directive
By Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department has suspended all training programs for employees related to diversity and inclusion, an internal cable obtained by Reuters showed, af...
Oct 24, 2020
Trump to vote in Florida before hitting campaign trail, Biden heads to Pennsylvania
By John Whitesides WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump will vote in his adopted home of Florida before holding campaign rallies in three swing states on Saturday, joining more than 53 millio...
Oct 23, 2020
Texas appeals court says state may not limit ballot drop-off sites
By Makini Brice (Reuters) - A Texas appeals court on Friday ruled the Republican governor cannot limit drop-off sites for mail ballots to one per county, a setback for U.S. President Donald Trump. Uph...
Oct 23, 2020
Democrats in U.S. drilling states push back against Biden oil remarks
By Nichola Groom (Reuters) - Democratic candidates in oil drilling states were quick to distance themselves on Friday from comments by their party's presidential candidate, Joe Biden, that indicated h...
Oct 23, 2020
U.S. Postal Service returns 137 mail processing machines to service
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Postal Service told a U.S. judge on Friday it has returned 137 mail processing machines to service since August as it works to deliver millions of ballots. U.S. Distric...
Oct 23, 2020
Heads of Facebook, Twitter could testify to U.S. Senate panel post-election, Sen. Graham says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee is close to an agreement with Twitter head Jack Dorsey and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg that would have them testify to the panel later this ...
Oct 23, 2020
Pennsylvania can not reject mail-in ballots due to signature discrepancy: state court
By Costas Pitas (Reuters) - Pennsylvania's Supreme Court ruled on Friday that mail-in ballots cannot be refused because a voter's signature does not appear to match the one on file, a decision that co...
Oct 23, 2020
Exclusive: Biden wins major union endorsement in final days of White House race
By Trevor Hunnicutt WILMINGTON, Del. (Reuters) - A major alliance of construction unions on Friday will endorse Joe Biden, giving the Democrat a boost from a crucial bloc of blue-collar voters in the ...
Oct 23, 2020
