Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News

By Valerie Volcovici LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Big retailers are breaking California law and misleading consumers by selling plastic shopping bags bearing language and symbols that falsely suggest the b...

By Pete Schroeder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Next year will be a turning point for U.S. financial policy as Democratic President Joe Biden's new regulators ready a slew of rule changes that are set to cre...

By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) - The jury in British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell's sex abuse trial was due to reconvene on Tuesday, following three full days of deliberations in which jurors have rev...

(Reuters) - An earthquake of magnitude 4.5 struck near Stanton in West Texas on Monday, the US Geological Survey reported. The quake struck at a depth of 7.8 km (4.8 miles), USGS said. The earthquake ...

DENVER (Reuters) - A lone gunman shot four people to death and wounded a police officer on Monday during a Denver-area shooting spree that unfolded at various locations and ended with police killing t...

By Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) - A Colorado prosecutor went to court on Monday in a rare bid to seek a reduced prison term for a truck driver sentenced to 110 years behind bars for vehicular homici...

(Reuters) - The official death toll in Kentucky from a swarm of devastating tornadoes that struck the state on Dec. 10 has climbed to 77, with an infant in hard-hit Graves County counted as the latest...

By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Los Angeles Police Department was expected to release video footage on Monday from the accidental shooting of a teenage girl killed in a clothing store when...

By Dan Fastenberg and Hussein al Waiile NEW YORK (Reuters) - New Waterford crystals joined over 2,000 sparkling triangles covering the ball that drops over New York's Times Square every year, days bef...

(Reuters) -U.S. health authorities on Monday shortened the recommended time for isolation for asymptomatic Americans with COVID-19 to five days from the previous guidance of 10 days. The Centers for D...