Top Republican pledges to maintain Cuba trade embargo
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The top Republican in the U.S. Congress dimmed hopes that lawmakers might end the embargo on Cuba after President Barack Obama leaves office, saying on Tuesday he intends to keep the trade restrictions in place.
Ex-Red Sox pitcher mulls run against Senator Warren in Massachusetts
BOSTON (Reuters) – Former Boston Red Sox pitcher, failed video game entrepreneur and conservative political commentator Curt Schilling said on Tuesday he is considering running against Democratic U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts in 2018.
Congressional Republicans want to talk Tehran, not Trump
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican U.S. congressional candidates worried that Donald Trump’s struggling White House bid will damage them too have seized on one of President Barack Obama’s signature foreign policy initiatives to try to ward off Democrats…
Arizona execution procedures face review in U.S. court
(Reuters) – A federal judge in Phoenix will hear arguments this week about resuming executions in Arizona, where a 2014 lethal injection that took nearly two hours raised questions about the state’s death chamber protocols and the chemicals it uses to …
Trump sharpens ‘rigged’ election allegations disputed by Republican lawyers
GREEN BAY, Wis./WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Monday cited studies he said showed rampant voter fraud, saying the Nov. 8 election was “rigged” against him even as Republican lawyers called his allegations unfoun…
Melania Trump calls taped comments by Donald Trump ‘boy talk’
(Reuters) – Melania Trump rose to her husband’s defense on Monday, describing lewd comments the Republican presidential nominee made on a leaked 2005 video in which he bragged about groping women as “boy talk.”
Rejecting Trump, Wall Street Republican donors scatter largesse
NEW YORK/BOSTON (Reuters) – Largely united in their dislike of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, some ultra-wealthy U.S. investors who play in conservative politics are warily weighing their choices, torn between third-party candidates, s…
How Trump, Clinton would fix the ‘crazy’ U.S. health system
(Reuters) – When former President Bill Clinton called parts of Obamacare “crazy,” he put his wife Hillary Clinton on the defensive and gave much-needed ammunition to her Republican rival for the presidency, Donald Trump, who wants to scrap it.
Vietnam gives thumbs-up to U.S. regional role as pivot stumbles
HANOI (Reuters) – Vietnam supports U.S. “intervention” in the Asia-Pacific if it helps keep peace and stability, the defense ministry said, in a timely endorsement of a continued U.S. presence amid uncertainty over Washington’s faltering “pivot”.
Voting for Trump? Pennsylvania Republican senator will not say
(Reuters) – Republican candidates in tight races across the country have tied themselves in knots trying to decide whether to disavow or support their party’s presidential nominee, Donald Trump, especially since multiple sexual assault allegations agai…
