Category Archives: (Sandbox) Politics
Explainer: ‘Naked’ ballots loom over U.S. election, as Trump blasts mail-in voting
By Jan Wolfe (Reuters) - As Republican President Donald Trump assails the use of mail-in voting, a Pennsylvania court decision over the use of envelopes for hiding the identity of mail-in voters could...
Sep 25, 2020
Pioneering Justice Ginsburg makes history again with U.S. Capitol honor
By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a champion of gender equality, will make history again on Friday as the first woman and the first Jewish person t...
Sep 25, 2020
Special Report: Will your mail ballot count in the U.S. presidential election? It may depend on who’s counting and where
By Julia Harte, Jason Lange and Simon Lewis (Reuters) - Two elderly women in small towns in Wisconsin voted by mail during April's presidential nominating contests. Both were sheltering in place as co...
Sep 25, 2020
Justice Department asks judge to allow U.S. to bar WeChat from U.S. app stores
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Justice Department early Friday asked a federal judge in San Francisco to allow the government to bar Apple Inc and Alphabet Inc's Google from offering WeChat for download i...
Sep 24, 2020
House antitrust panel announces hearing as D.C. awaits Big Tech repo
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. House panel plans to hold an Oct. 1 hearing on proposals to strengthen antitrust laws and restore online competition as it nears release of a long-awaited report on Big T...
Sep 24, 2020
Democrats prepare bill limiting U.S. Supreme Court justice terms to 18 years
By Andrew Chung NEW YORK (Reuters) - Democrats in of the House of Representatives will introduce a bill next week to limit the tenure of U.S. Supreme Court justices to 18 years from current lifetime a...
Sep 24, 2020
Federal prosecutor announces inquiry into nine discarded ballots cast for Trump
By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A top federal prosecutor in the battleground state of Pennsylvania revealed on Thursday his office has launched an investigation into a small number of discard...
Sep 24, 2020
Explainer: Why ‘naked ballots’ loom over U.S. presidential election
By Jan Wolfe BOSTON (Reuters) - A recent Pennsylvania court decision over the use of envelopes used to hide the identity of mail-in voters could have major ramifications for the Nov. 3 election betwee...
Sep 24, 2020
Tyler Technologies says it was hacked with ransomware, election programs safe
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Tyler Technologies said the hacking attack against it disclosed Wednesday used ransomware, which encrypts company files and demands payment to decrypt them again. In a statem...
Sep 24, 2020
Trump to sign executive orders to burnish health care credentials
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order aimed at ensuring Americans with pre-existing conditions retain health care coverage, Health and Human Services Secr...
Sep 24, 2020
