Category Archives: (Sandbox) Politics
Fundraising lifts Democrats in final weeks of U.S. election campaign
By Trevor Hunnicutt NEW YORK (Reuters) - Democrats hoping to capture the U.S. presidency and the Senate have seen a wave of cash from small donors come their way in the final months before the Nov. 3 ...
Oct 15, 2020
Biden to raise $2.4 trillion from taxes over a decade: analysis
By Trevor Hunnicutt NEW YORK (Reuters) - Democratic U.S. presidential nominee Joe Biden would raise $2.4 trillion in new federal government revenue over the next decade, largely from tax hikes on corp...
Oct 15, 2020
Judge puts on hold Texas’ limit on drop boxes for absentee ballots
By Jan Wolfe (Reuters) - A Texas judge on Thursday lifted an order by Republican Governor Greg Abbott that limited counties to a single drop-off location for absentee ballots in the Nov. 3 presidentia...
Oct 15, 2020
U.S. senators question Amazon on concerns it tracks employees, limits unionization
By Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Four Democratic U.S. senators on Thursday sent a letter to Amazon.com Inc's Chief Executive Jeff Bezos, demanding answers over the company's alleged moves to tra...
Oct 15, 2020
Black U.S. House candidate in Indiana says she’s being harassed, intimidated
By Brendan O'Brien and Makini Brice (Reuters) - The candidate running against U.S. Vice President Mike Pence's brother for a congressional seat in Indiana said on Thursday that people had made repeate...
Oct 15, 2020
U.S. Senate’s McConnell says coronavirus relief package will be passed either before or after election
(Reuters) - U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Thursday that if a fresh COVID-19 relief package is not passed before the Nov. 3 election, it will be passed afterwards. "I think we nee...
Oct 15, 2020
Wall Street veteran Ray McGuire to run for New York mayor
By Noor Zainab Hussain and Imani Moise (Reuters) - Ray McGuire, one of the senior-most Black executives on Wall Street, is leaving his job at Citigroup Inc to run for mayor of New York in 2021, his sp...
Oct 15, 2020
Democratic U.S. presidential nominee Biden tested negative again for COVID-19
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden tested negative for COVID-19 on Wednesday night, his campaign said in a regular update. (Reporting by Trevor Hunnicutt in New York; ...
Oct 15, 2020
U.S. Senate Judiciary committee plans to subpoena Twitter CEO over blocking New York Post articles
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee is moving to subpoena Twitter's Chief Executive Jack Dorsey after the social media platform decided to block stories from the New York Post t...
Oct 15, 2020
Trump calls for big COVID-19 stimulus but McConnell disagrees
By Lisa Lambert and Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Thursday said he is willing to raise his offer of $1.8 trillion for a COVID-19 relief deal with Democrats in the U.S....
Oct 15, 2020
