Category Archives: (Sandbox) Politics
House panel to subpoena DeJoy seeking Postal Service documents
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The chairwoman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee said Monday she plans to subpoena Postmaster General Louis DeJoy seeking documents he has been withholding from Congre...
Aug 31, 2020
U.S. agrees to pay South Carolina $600 million and dispose of plutonium
By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Energy Department said on Monday it has reached a settlement with South Carolina on removing weapons-grade plutonium by 2037 from a Cold War-era site...
Aug 31, 2020
U.S. court denies ex-Trump adviser Flynn’s bid to halt criminal case
By Jan Wolfe NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Monday denied a bid by Michael Flynn, President Donald Trump's former national security adviser, to immediately end the criminal case against ...
Aug 31, 2020
Bannon co-defendant expected to plead not guilty to border wall fraud
By Brendan Pierson NEW YORK (Reuters) - Brian Kolfage, the U.S. Air Force veteran charged alongside former Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon with defrauding donors in a scheme to build the president's...
Aug 31, 2020
In Pittsburgh, Biden to blame Trump for sowing chaos amid crises
By Jarrett Renshaw WILMINGTON, Del. (Reuters) - Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden will accuse President Donald Trump in a speech delivered from battleground state Pennsylvania on Monday of sow...
Aug 31, 2020
Forty percent of Americans back Trump executive order on TikTok: Reuters/Ipsos poll
By Raphael Satter and Chris Kahn WASHINGTON/ NEW YORK (Reuters) - Forty percent of Americans back President Donald Trump's threat to ban videosharing app TikTok if it is not sold to a U.S. buyer, acco...
Aug 31, 2020
Portland mayor urges restraint, renunciation of violence after fatal shooting
By Steve Gorman and Maria Caspani (Reuters) - Officials in Portland, Oregon, said on Sunday they were braced for an escalation of protest-related violence that has convulsed the city for three months,...
Aug 30, 2020
Biden condemns Portland violence, says Trump ‘recklessly encouraging’ it
By Michael Martina DETROIT (Reuters) - Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden on Sunday called violence at protests in Portland, Oregon, unacceptable and challenged President Donald Trump to stop "...
Aug 30, 2020
Trump intel chief defends briefings ban, Democrats raise subpoena threat
By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's intelligence chief on Sunday defended his decision to cease in-person Congressional briefings on election security, while Democrats...
Aug 30, 2020
Burst of success for progressive challengers in U.S. congressional races may fizzle in Massachusetts
By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A solid year for progressive Democrats who have defeated at least three incumbents in the U.S. Congress in primaries could fizzle out this week in Massachusetts...
Aug 30, 2020
