Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News

(Reuters) - Boston City Councilor Michelle Wu became the first woman and person of color to be elected mayor of Boston, after her opponent, fellow Councilor Annissa Essaibi George, conceded defeat in ...

By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The last of several Afghan refugee families who had resettled near San Diego only to end up trapped in their homeland during summer visits amid the Taliban take...

(Reuters) - Voters in Minneapolis, where George Floyd was murdered by police in May 2020, on Tuesday rejected a ballot question that would have dissolved the police department in favor of a new Depart...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican Mike Carey, a coal lobbyist endorsed by former President Donald Trump, defeated Democrat Allison Russo in a special election for Ohio's 15th Congressional District ar...

By Joseph Ax (Reuters) - Democrat Eric Adams won New York City's mayoral race on Tuesday on promises to boost public safety and give voice to working-class residents, drawing on his experience as a po...

By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actor Alec Baldwin on Tuesday shared a message on social media https://www.instagram.com/p/CVybJ8FvsNY disputing reports of chaos and a lax attitude toward saf...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrat Shontel Brown defeated Republican Laverne Gore in a special election for Ohio's 11th Congressional District to fill a seat that Democrat Marcia Fudge vacated in March t...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Marshals Service said on Tuesday it would be removing about 400 federal detainees from a Washington, D.C. jail, after a surprise inspection revealed that one of its fac...

By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) - A man once considered Colombia's most wanted drug lord pleaded guilty on Tuesday to U.S. charges of narcotics distribution and supporting a terrorist group as part of...

By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - An attorney for Britney Spears has asked to question her father under oath about how the pop singer's money was spent during his 13 years overseeing her conser...