Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News

By Valerie Volcovici and Jarrett Renshaw WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. congressional Democrats are considering including the first federal fee to tackle plastic pollution in the multitrillion-dollar rec...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Jonathan Kanter, President Joe Biden's nominee to lead the antitrust division of the Justice Department, will appear for a confirmation hearing next week before the Senate Judic...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Wedneday said it closed its mishap investigation into the July 11 Virgin Galactic Unity 22 launch, which deviated from assigned...

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Postal Service (USPS) plan takes effect Friday to slow down some first-class mail deliveries as part of efforts to cut red ink as the U.S. Congress co...

By Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Los Angeles officials on Wednesday signaled they would vote next week to prohibit unvaccinated people from entering most businesses in the United States' second...

By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) - The top lawyer at the agency that enforces U.S. labor laws said on Wednesday that many college athletes are their schools' employees, effectively inviting players to tak...

By Patricia Zengerle and Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Representative Liz Cheney offered a resounding defense on Wednesday of General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, pra...

By Jody Godoy and Chris Prentice NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Long-time U.S. Department of Justice official Daniel Kahn, who oversaw high-profile bribery cases against French energy company Alstom ...

By Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As partisan standoffs in the U.S. Congress risk a government shutdown and debt default, lawmakers take a timeout on Wednesday for one of Washington's few remai...

By Jason Lange, Megan Davies and David Randall WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A standoff in Washington between President Joe Biden's Democrats and Republicans is threatening to trigger a financial and economic...