Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News

By Brendan Pierson NEW YORK (Reuters) - R&B singer R. Kelly is on trial in Brooklyn federal court on charges he led a two-decade racketeering scheme in which women and girls were recruited for him to ...

(Reuters) - The United States has administered 359,623,380 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country as of Thursday morning and distributed 422,175,735 doses, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Next year's Academy of Country Music Awards will stream live on Amazon.com Inc's Prime Video, the first major awards show to move exclusively online, organizers said on Thursda...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A man who said he had a bomb in his pickup truck near the U.S. Capitol building is now in police custody, a law enforcement source said on Thursday. (Reporting by Julio-Cesar Ch...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Biden administration has not yet begun a promised review of its handling of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, as officials focus on the more immediate issue of evacuatio...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican U.S. Senator Roger Wicker tested positive for COVID-19 on Thursday and is experiencing mild symptoms, his office said in a statement. Wicker, the ranking member of th...

By Maria Chutchian (Reuters) - The judge overseeing the Boy Scouts of America bankruptcy is poised to rule Thursday afternoon on the youth organization's request to sign off on a $850 million settleme...

By Julio-Cesar Chavez and Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Law enforcement officials surrounded a man with possible explosives sitting in a vehicle near the U.S. Capitol on Thursday, as nearby bui...

By Alicia Powell NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York marks its emergence from the worst of the coronavirus pandemic with a star-studded free concert in Central Park on Saturday. "We're reopening New York Ci...

By Alwyn Scott NEW YORK (Reuters) - Insurers are quietly gearing up for a potential ten-fold increase in sales to the booming $17.6 billion-a-year cannabis industry as Congress inches closer to legali...