Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Wednesday again urged Congress to tackle the nation's debt ceiling, saying it was unclear how long Treasury's efforts to temporarily finan...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Biden administration on Wednesday released a report showing that the U.S. can get 40% of its electricity from solar energy by 2035 - a significant ramp up from its current sh...

By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) - One key face could be missing from the first trial beginning this week in the U.S. college admissions scandal that ensnared dozens of wealthy corporate executives an...

By Jonathan Allen SHANKSVILLE, Pa. (Reuters) - The hemlock grove where United Airlines Flight 93 hurtled to the ground in rural Pennsylvania still haunts Mark Trautman and Ben Haupt 20 years later. Be...

By Brendan O'Brien (Reuters) - A Virginia statue of Confederate Civil War General Robert E. Lee, a focus of protests over racial injustice, is scheduled to be removed on Wednesday after a year-long le...

By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON (Reuters) - For U.S. President Joe Biden to be true to his agenda he should not renominate Jerome Powell as Federal Reserve chair, Nobel prize-winning economist and long...

By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - NASA's Mars science rover Perseverance has collected and stashed away the first of numerous mineral samples that the U.S. space agency hopes to retrieve from th...

By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) - Idaho on Tuesday activated "crisis standards of care" to allow for healthcare rationing at hospitals in northern parts of the state due to a surge in COVID-19 patients re...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former U.S. Senator Adlai Stevenson III, the namesake son and great-grandson of famous Illinois Democratic politicians, died at his Chicago home on Monday at age 90, the New Yor...

(Reuters) - The U.S. National Hurricane Center on Tuesday said there was a 50% chance of a cyclone formation over the south-central Gulf of Mexico in the next 48 hours. "A tropical or subtropical depr...