Category Archives: (Sandbox) Politics
Supreme Court nominee Barrett faces Senate test
By Lawrence Hurley and Andrew Chung WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett's Senate confirmation kicks off in earnest on Monday as Republicans seek to place her on the ben...
Oct 12, 2020
Trump tries to put COVID-19 behind him with campaign rally in Florida
By John Whitesides WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump will try to put his bout with COVID-19 behind him when he returns to the campaign trail on Monday, beginning a three-week sprint to the...
Oct 12, 2020
Fauci says his remarks were taken out of context in Trump ad
By Pete Schroeder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Top U.S. infectious diseases expert Dr. Anthony Fauci said on Sunday he had not agreed to be featured in an ad by President Donald Trump's re-election campaign...
Oct 11, 2020
Twitter flags Trump tweet for violating its rules on COVID-19 information
(Reuters) - Twitter Inc on Sunday flagged a tweet by the U.S. President Donald Trump, in which he claimed he was immune to the coronavirus, for violating company's rules about spreading misleading and...
Oct 11, 2020
Democrat Harrison smashes Senate fundraising record with $57 million haul in South Carolina
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrat Jaime Harrison of South Carolina raised a stunning $57 million in the third quarter of 2020 in his bid to unseat U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham, his campaign said on Sunda...
Oct 11, 2020
White House calls for interim coronavirus relief as negotiations continue
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows on Sunday called on Congress to pass a coronavirus relief bill using leftover funds from the pa...
Oct 11, 2020
Trump says in interview he no longer has COVID-19 and is not a transmission risk
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said in a Fox News interview on Sunday he no longer has COVID-19 and is not a transmission risk for the virus, as he prepares to hit the campaign tra...
Oct 11, 2020
U.S. Supreme Court nominee Barrett pledges to follow law, not personal views
By Steve Holland and Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Amy Coney Barrett, President Donald Trump's pick for a U.S. Supreme Court vacancy, said she will rule based on the law, not her personal vie...
Oct 11, 2020
It’s ‘all hands on deck’ this week in Senate on Trump court nominee
By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Republicans turn in earnest this week toward making good on President Donald Trump's top objective in Congress ahead of the Nov. 3 election - placing h...
Oct 11, 2020
Trump seeks to put COVID-19 behind him, get back to election campaign
By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Donald Trump is no longer a transmission risk for COVID-19, his doctor said late on Saturday, as the U.S. president seeks to put his bout with coronavirus behin...
Oct 11, 2020
