Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. consumer confidence fell to a six-month low in August as concerns about soaring new COVID-19 infections as well as higher inflation dampened the outlook for the economy. Th...

By Devika Krishna Kumar and Peter Szekely NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) -Two people were killed and 10 injured when a deep crevasse opened up on a Mississippi highway in the wake of heavy rains unleashed by H...

By Nichola Groom and Valerie Volcovici LOS ANGELES/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Biden administration plans to make federal lands cheaper to access for solar and wind power developers after the clean pow...

By Andrew Chung DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) - David Harris did not need an explanation when the two canvassers on his driveway asked him and his wife Jamie if they had heard about the new voting restri...

By Andrew Chung and Lawrence Hurley (Reuters) - During the bitter legal battles over the 2020 presidential election, conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices signaled an embrace of a once-marginal leg...

By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) - A Mexican farmworker found guilty in May of murdering an Iowa college student three years ago, was sentenced on Monday to life in prison without parole. The case was seiz...

(Reuters) - About 1.6 million more Americans had some form of health insurance coverage despite the COVID-19 crisis last year, helped mainly by enrollment growth in government-sponsored health plans, ...

By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) - The Florida Department of Education said on Monday it has withheld funds from two school districts that made masks mandatory in classrooms this fall. "Commissioner of Edu...

By Adrees Latif HOUMA, La. (Reuters) - "Right now, I've got nothing." Sitting on his front porch, 70-year-old Theophilus Charles was still visibly in shock as he described Sunday night when Ida, one o...

By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Six Afghan refugee families who had resettled in California only to end up stranded in their homeland during a summer visit that coincided with the U.S. troop w...