Category Archives: (Sandbox) Politics
White House election race reaches streets of Tel Aviv
By Rami Ayyub TEL AVIV (Reuters) - "You have to thank Trump" posters in Hebrew suddenly started appearing on minibuses in Tel Aviv this week, as Republican ads brought the race for the White House ont...
Oct 16, 2020
Biden and Trump return to campaign trail after dueling town halls
By Michael Martina and Steve Holland WILMINGTON, Del./DORAL, Fla. (Reuters) - President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden will return to the campaign trail on Friday with visits to thre...
Oct 16, 2020
Democratic Senate campaigns pull in more than $240 million in third-quarter fundraising
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic candidates running for the U.S. Senate in nine hotly contested races amassed more than $240 million in contributions during the third quarter, leaving their Republica...
Oct 15, 2020
Biden hedges on support for ‘court-packing’ proposal
By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden kept his options open on Thursday when asked if he would add judges to the Supreme Court to balance the 6-3 conser...
Oct 15, 2020
Biden tested negative for coronavirus on Thursday: campaign
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden tested negative for the coronavirus on Thursday, his campaign said in a statement, after Biden flew earlier this week with a person w...
Oct 15, 2020
Trump ex-fundraiser to plead guilty in 1MDB foreign lobbying case
By Jason Lange WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A former fundraiser for U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to plead guilty next week to charges of illegally lobbying Trump to drop an investigation into a m...
Oct 15, 2020
U.S. Senate panel to hold hearing on FCC nominee after Trump’s urging
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate Commerce Committee will hold a Nov. 10 hearing on the nomination of a senior government official to join the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) after Presid...
Oct 15, 2020
Trump will ‘weigh in’ with McConnell if coronavirus package reached -Pelosi aide
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that President Donald Trump would "weigh in" with Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell if a deal on a ...
Oct 15, 2020
U.S. Justice official accuses Barr of ‘scorn for apolitical prosecutors’
By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A recently retired federal prosecutor in California on Thursday became the third career Justice Department official to claim in a recent newspaper letter or op...
Oct 15, 2020
No need for Biden to quarantine after flying with person who tested positive for COVID-19: campaign
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Joe Biden flew on an airplane with a person who subsequently tested positive for COVID-19 but Biden was not in close contact with the pers...
Oct 15, 2020
