Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News

By Hilary Russ and Lisa Baertlein NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Just as American steakhouses are recovering from the first wave of COVID shutdowns, the Delta variant threatens to diminish the appet...

By Tim Reid MIAMISBURG, Ohio (Reuters) - Jill Stephenson lost her only child Ben Kopp, a 21-year-old U.S. Army Ranger, when he was shot during a 2009 firefight with Taliban forces in Afghanistan. For ...

(Reuters) - Nevada governor Steve Sisolak said late on Monday that large event operators will be allowed to opt out of the state's mask requirements if they can verify that attendees are fully vaccina...

(Reuters) - Former U.S. President George Bush said he and former First Lady Laura Bush feel "deep sadness" over the events unfolding in Afghanistan. "Laura and I have been watching the tragic events u...

By Tim McLaughlin BOSTON (Reuters) - A South Carolina paper mill, whose foul smell has triggered more than 30,000 complaints, has become one of the dirtiest polluters in the United States since being ...

(Reuters) - The administration of U.S. President Joe Biden has decided that most Americans should get a booster shot of a COVID-19 vaccine eight months after they completed their initial vaccination, ...

By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) - Real estate heir Robert Durst testified to chopping up the body of a Texas neighbor he killed in self-defense and to abandoning the body of his best friend after discoveri...

(Reuters) - An unnamed woman has sued folk singer-songwriter Bob Dylan alleging he sexually abused her after giving her drugs and alcohol in 1965 when she was 12 years old. A spokesman for Dylan, now ...

By Alexandra Ulmer and Nathan Frandino SAN FRANCISCO/FREMONT, Calif. (Reuters) - As the Taliban took over Kabul on Sunday, Besmellah Khuram sat in his living room in Sacramento and video-called his fa...

By Steve Gorman (Reuters) - Strike teams battling a mammoth wildfire displacing thousands of northern California residents braced for a resurgence of high winds on Monday, as the state's largest utili...