Category Archives: (Sandbox) Politics
Former Trump campaign manager hospitalized after threatening self-harm: ABC News
By Pete Schroeder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Bradley Parscale, the former campaign manager for President Donald Trump's re-election campaign, was hospitalized Sunday after his wife told police he was thre...
Sep 27, 2020
Judge temporarily blocks U.S. ban on TikTok downloads from U.S. app stores
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. judge in Washington has temporarily blocked a Trump administration order banning Apple Inc and Alphabet Inc's Google from offering Chinese-owned short video-sharing app T...
Sep 27, 2020
Trump paid no income taxes in 10 of last 15 years: New York Times
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump paid just $750 in federal income taxes in both 2016 and 2017, the New York Times reported Sunday, citing tax-return data. Trump also paid no income taxes ...
Sep 27, 2020
Top Democrat expresses hope deal can be reached with White House on COVID-19 relief
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the top Democrat in Congress, said on Sunday she thinks a deal can be reached with the White House on a coronavirus relief package and that talk...
Sep 27, 2020
From Kennedy-Nixon to Trump-Biden: 60 years of U.S. presidential debates
(Reuters) - Republican President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden face off on Tuesday in a televised presidential debate, part of a 60-year-old tradition marked by some of the most memorable moment...
Sep 27, 2020
U.S. Supreme Court nominee Barrett would have final say on recusal calls
By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats are urging U.S. Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett to recuse herself from any election-related cases because of President Donald Trump's commen...
Sep 27, 2020
Senate Republicans ready quick push on Trump’s Supreme Court pick Barrett
By Lawrence Hurley and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Republicans on Sunday prepared a concerted push toward quickly confirming President Donald Trump's third Supreme Court nominee, ...
Sep 27, 2020
From big family to U.S. high court, Barrett ‘used to being in group of nine’
By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As the parent of seven children, Amy Coney Barrett knows about working with a large group: it is an experience she will have again if confirmed as the ninth jus...
Sep 26, 2020
Democrats hammer Trump’s Supreme Court pick, say she could jeopardize Obamacare
By Andrew Chung (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and others in his party on Saturday blasted President Donald Trump's choice of conservative judge Amy Coney Barrett for the Supr...
Sep 26, 2020
U.S. Supreme Court nominee Barrett has staked out conservative positions
By Andrew Chung and Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In nominating Amy Coney Barrett for a lifetime job on the U.S. Supreme Court, President Donald Trump has selected a federal appeals court jud...
Sep 26, 2020
