Category Archives: (Sandbox) Politics
Trump campaign directing staffers exposed coronavirus to quarantine immediately: CBS
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's presidential campaign has asked all staffers exposed to someone who tested positive for COVID-19 to self-quarantine immediately, according to a CBS repo...
Oct 02, 2020
Pelosi: continuity of government in place after Trump tests positive
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the plans for continuing government should President Donald Trump become incapacitated remain in place, after Trump teste...
Oct 02, 2020
U.S. Supreme Court to hear Republican appeal in Arizona voting fight
By Andrew Chung (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear a bid by Arizona Republicans to enforce two voting restrictions in the state that were struck down by a lower court as dispr...
Oct 02, 2020
U.S. Senate hearing date for Barrett unchanged by Trump COVID-19 test result: aide
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee's plan to begin confirmation hearings for U.S. Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett on Oct. 12 remain unchanged, despite President Donald ...
Oct 02, 2020
EU trade chief sees easier U.S. ties with Biden than Trump
By Philip Blenkinsop BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union's trade relations with the United States would likely be easier if Democratic challenger Joe Biden won November's U.S. election rather than...
Oct 02, 2020
U.S. Treasury Secretary Mnuchin tests negative for COVID-19: spokeswoman
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin has tested negative for coronavirus, a spokeswoman said on Friday after President Donald Trump announced he and his wife had tested positiv...
Oct 02, 2020
U.S. Vice President Pence tests negative for coronavirus: spokesman
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Mike Pence has tested negative for coronavirus, his spokesman said on Friday, hours after President Donald Trump announced he contracted COVID-19 and was und...
Oct 02, 2020
Trump’s Supreme Court gambit could benefit Biden: Reuters/Ipsos poll
By James Oliphant and Chris Kahn WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court has energized his conservative supporters, but public o...
Oct 02, 2020
In battleground Wisconsin, some Latinos feel ignored by Biden
By Tim Reid and Dan Simmons MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - Cesar Hernandez says he has made thousands of phone calls since June urging Latinos in the battleground state of Wisconsin to support Democratic presi...
Oct 02, 2020
Messages for sick Trump split between ‘get well’ and ‘told you so’
(Reuters) - Get well messages for U.S. President Donald Trump poured in from foreign capitals on Friday after he and his wife tested positive for the coronavirus, but some had little sympathy for a le...
Oct 02, 2020
