Category Archives: (Sandbox) Politics
Republican senator gives Trump ‘big stick’ to carry as election nears
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican Senator Lamar Alexander, who ran unsuccessfully for the White House in 1996 and 2000, handed Donald Trump a 5-foot walking cane after a White House event on Tuesday, ...
Aug 04, 2020
Stacey Abrams says U.S. is fumbling coronavirus response through ‘willful ignorance’
(Reuters) - Voting rights advocate Stacey Abrams said on Tuesday the United States has fumbled its response to the coronavirus outbreak through "willful ignorance," threatening the economy and raising...
Aug 04, 2020
U.S. congressional primaries in five states feature polar political opposites
By Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Kansas arch-conservative Kris Kobach and prominent Michigan progressive Rashida Tlaib - candidates from the outer edges of the Republican and Democratic partie...
Aug 04, 2020
‘America’s Toughest Sheriff’ faces tough race to win old job back
By David Shwartz PHOENIX (Reuters) - Joe Arpaio, the former sheriff of Arizona's largest county who built a national reputation as a staunch opponent of illegal immigration and found a powerful ally i...
Aug 04, 2020
White House, U.S. Congress Democrats to continue effort on coronavirus aid
By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Top White House officials and Democratic leaders in the U.S. Congress will try again on Tuesday to narrow gaping differences over a fifth major coronavirus-aid b...
Aug 04, 2020
U.S. judge orders election boards to extend count of absentee ballots in New York state primary
(Reuters) - A U.S. judge late on Monday ordered all local boards of election in New York state to count "thousands" of absentee ballots received the day after a congressional primary held last June 23...
Aug 04, 2020
Biden assails Trump’s ‘bald-faced lies’ about voting by mail
By Michael Martina (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said on Monday that President Donald Trump was telling "bald-faced lies" about voting by mail to distract from his own failur...
Aug 03, 2020
Trump says he can issue order on mail-in voting but hasn’t gotten to it
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday that he has the right to issue an executive order on mail-in voting but hasn't gotten to it yet, and he vowed to sue Nevada over a new...
Aug 03, 2020
Trump withdraws nomination of controversial figure to Pentagon post
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump has withdrawn the nomination of Anthony Tata, a retired Army brigadier general who has called former President Barack Obama a "terrorist leader," to be un...
Aug 03, 2020
Mnuchin says ‘a little bit’ closer to larger virus aid deal
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said after separate meetings with Democratic and Republican congressional leaders on Monday that the two sides were getting "a little bit"...
Aug 03, 2020
