Category Archives: (Sandbox) Politics
Pelosi says coronavirus aid talks with Mnuchin, Meadows to continue Tuesday
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will meet again with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows on Tuesday, she said after talks on Monday for...
Aug 03, 2020
U.S. House intelligence panel DHS office over Portland, other protests
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House Intelligence Committee launched an investigation on Monday into the Department of Homeland Security's intelligence office, including its actions in Portland and i...
Aug 03, 2020
Trump threatens to sue Nevada to block universal mail-in ballots
By Joseph Ax (Reuters) - President Donald Trump threatened to sue Nevada after Democratic lawmakers passed a bill on Sunday that would send mail-in ballots to every voter ahead of November's president...
Aug 03, 2020
U.S. Democrats issue subpoenas in probe of State Department watchdog firing
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senior U.S. congressional committee Democrats announced subpoenas on Monday for depositions from witnesses in their investigation into President Donald Trump's abrupt firing in ...
Aug 03, 2020
Schumer backs TikTok U.S. operations sale
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer on Monday called for an American company to purchase Chinese-owned video app TikTok in order to protect users' data, saying "a safe w...
Aug 03, 2020
White House, Congress face tough week of coronavirus aid talks
By Patricia Zengerle and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congressional Democrats and Trump administration officials faced increasing pressure to come up an agreement on coronavirus aid legislatio...
Aug 03, 2020
Divisive Trump nominee gets new Pentagon post, despite snub by Congress
By Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After failing to secure a Senate confirmation hearing, U.S. President Donald Trump's most divisive nominee for a Pentagon position so far has taken a different, ...
Aug 02, 2020
U.S. coronavirus ‘extraordinarily widespread’, say White House experts
By Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is in a new phase of the novel coronavirus outbreak with infections "extraordinarily widespread" in rural areas as well as cities, White House ...
Aug 02, 2020
Republican senators back plan to sell TikTok’s U.S. operations
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two Republican senators back a plan by China's ByteDance to divest the U.S. operations of TikTok after President Donald Trump said on Friday he had decided t...
Aug 02, 2020
White House Chief of Staff Meadows says U.S. will hold election on Nov. 3: CBS interview
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows said on Sunday that the United States will hold an election on Nov. 3 and that President Donald Trump was raising concerns about mail-in ...
Aug 02, 2020
