Category Archives: (Sandbox) Politics
White House: no one pressuring FDA to approve coronavirus vaccine
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - White House Spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany said on Thursday there is no political pressure on the U.S. drugs regulator to quickly approve a vaccine for the deadly coronavirus dise...
Sep 03, 2020
Russia says allegation of influence campaign is ‘speculation’
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's foreign ministry on Thursday dismissed as "speculation" allegations by Facebook that Moscow had used it to pursue a covert political influence operation in the United State...
Sep 03, 2020
Up, down and sideways: a voter’s guide to U.S. economic data
By Ann Saphir (Reuters) - In the countdown to the Nov. 3 U.S. presidential election, the state of the economy is a key concern for many voters. Americans face a barrage of data, from this Friday's mon...
Sep 03, 2020
Facebook to halt new political ads just before U.S. election
By Katie Paul SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc said on Thursday it would stop accepting new political ads in the week before the U.S. presidential election in November, bowing to concern that it...
Sep 03, 2020
Biden seeks to ‘bring together’ strife-torn city in visit to Wisconsin battleground
By James Oliphant WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden will make his first campaign venture into a strife-torn American city on Thursday when he travels to Kenosha, Wiscons...
Sep 03, 2020
Exclusive: Biden garners more Republican endorsements, this time from ex-governors
By Tim Reid (Reuters) - Nearly 100 Republican and independent leaders will endorse Democrat Joe Biden for president on Thursday, including one-time 2020 Republican presidential candidate Bill Weld and...
Sep 03, 2020
Trump says North Carolina voters should vote twice; once by mail, once in person
(Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump suggested on Wednesday that voters in the state of North Carolina should vote twice in the November election, once by vote and once by mail, to make sure their ...
Sep 03, 2020
Trump campaign sues Democratic Montana governor to limit mail-in voting
By Tim Reid LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Republican President Donald Trump's re-election campaign sued the Democratic governor of Montana on Wednesday in an attempt to halt an expansion of mail-in voting i...
Sep 02, 2020
Trump threatens to cut federal funds to ‘lawless’ cities
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump signed a memo on Wednesday that threatens to cut federal funding to "lawless" cities, including Seattle, Portland, New York and Washington. "My Administra...
Sep 02, 2020
U.S. Republicans criticize Pelosi over hair appointment
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Republicans criticized House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday for going to a hair salon in San Francisco in an apparent violation of the city's coronavi...
Sep 02, 2020
