Category Archives: (Sandbox) Politics
McConnell: Republican coronavirus package to address health, economic aid, schools
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.s. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Monday Senate Republicans will shortly introduce a new coronavirus relief program to address health, economic assistance and ...
Jul 27, 2020
Host Notre Dame pulls out first U.S. presidential debate
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - University of Notre Dame pulled out as host of the first 2020 U.S. presidential debate, which will instead be held in Cleveland on Sept. 29, the Commission on Presidential Debat...
Jul 27, 2020
U.S. sending more federal officers to Portland protests: report
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration is sending at least 100 additional federal officers to Portland, Oregon, the Washington Post reported on Monday, as confrontations between anti-racism p...
Jul 27, 2020
Republican Senator Tom Cotton calls slavery ‘necessary evil’
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican U.S. Senator Tom Cotton described slavery as "a necessary evil" in a published attack on a New York Times initiative to make slavery the focal point of American histo...
Jul 27, 2020
Record number of Black women set to run for U.S. Congress
By Makini Brice WASHINGTON(Reuters) - Joyce Elliott, an Arkansas state senator who is seeking a U.S. congressional seat in November, was the second Black student to attend her local public high school...
Jul 27, 2020
Explainer: What’s at stake in the battle over U.S. unemployment benefits in Congress?
By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Enhanced unemployment benefits that the U.S. Congress authorized early in the coronavirus pandemic are due to expire at the end of July and thus far lawmakers h...
Jul 27, 2020
U.S. Republicans to unveil coronavirus aid proposal as time runs out on jobless benefits
By Susan Cornwell and David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Republicans on Monday are expected to unveil a $1 trillion coronavirus aid package hammered out with the White House, a starting p...
Jul 27, 2020
Factbox: The foreign policy issues that divide Trump and Biden
By Simon Lewis and Michael Martina (Reuters) - Republican President Donald Trump won election in 2016 promising to put "America First," overturn what he said were unfair trade deals and force U.S. all...
Jul 27, 2020
Imperiled Arizona U.S. Senator McSally’s hopes seen riding on Trump train
By David Morgan (Reuters) - U.S. Republican Senator Martha McSally shows every sign of being an imperiled incumbent, trailing Democratic challenger Mark Kelly in money and polling as President Donald ...
Jul 27, 2020
White House, Senate Republicans reach agreement on coronavirus aid bill, Meadows says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House and Senate Republicans have reached "an agreement in principle" on the next coronavirus relief bill, a White House official said on Sunday. White House Chief of ...
Jul 26, 2020
