Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News

(Reuters) - The United States has administered 405,444,558 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country as of Thursday morning and distributed 490,951,045 doses, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and ...

By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) - An Illinois nursing facility was fined more than $83,000 for failing to protect its staff from COVID-19, the Labor Department said on Thursday, the largest penalty under...

(Reuters) - Lawyers for a former Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot a woman while responding to a 911 call in 2017 are asking for his prison term to be significantly reduced to 41 months in a...

By Tim Reid (Reuters) - A teenage boy was sentenced on Thursday to nine years to life in prison for the 2019 murder of 18-year-old college student Tessa Majors in New York. Luchiano Lewis, 16, pleaded...

By Dan Fastenberg NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York artist has assembled more than 350,000 acrylic fingernails to create a neon and pale pink grotto - a tribute to surviving the coronavirus pandemic. "A...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A former chief technical pilot for Boeing Co was charged on Thursday with deceiving federal regulators concerning the company's 737 MAX plane, the U.S. Justice Department said. ...

By Lisa Baertlein LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Port of Los Angeles is beginning the hard work of convincing terminal operators, importers, warehouses owners and trucking firms to embrace moving more ca...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - White House press secretary Jen Psaki said on Thursday that U.S. President Joe Biden has yet to make a final decision on who to nominate to lead the Food and Drug administration...

By Alexandra Alper and Karen Freifeld WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican Senator Tom Cotton is holding up a vote to confirm Alan Estevez as the U.S. Commerce Department's undersecretary for industry an...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury says initial reporting showed that U.S. states have appropriated or budgeted 45% of the federal COVID-19 relief funds they had on hand as of July 31, with a gr...