Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News

By Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden celebrated new U.S. citizens at an event at the White House on Friday, the same day his administration rolled out a government-wide strat...

(Reuters) - The reigning queen of Washington's annual July Fourth burger eating contest had to share her championship trophy on Friday with last year's second place winner, as the two each ingested 34...

By Jonathan Allen and Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - Alvin Bragg, a former federal prosecutor and civil rights lawyer, looked likely to become the next Manhattan district attorney after his main rival...

By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - Lawyers for Ghislaine Maxwell said the overturning of Bill Cosby's 2018 sexual assault conviction justifies throwing out sex trafficking and other charges stem...

By Arshad Mohammed WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden plans to nominate Mallory Stewart to be assistant secretary of state for arms control, a key job at a time when Washington and Moscow...

By Mark Hosenball and Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal prosecutors are discussing possible plea bargains with members of a group of defendants in the U.S. Capitol storming accused of links wit...

By Daniela Desantis ASUNCION (Reuters) - At 49 years old, Juana Villalba will leave Paraguay for the first time. But it is a trip she never wanted to make. Juana, who resides in a small rural town abo...

By Andrew Chung (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday turned away a case challenging libel protections for journalists and media organizations, but conservative justices Clarence Thomas and Nei...

By Sharon Bernstein (Reuters) - On Sept. 14, Californians will vote on whether popular Democrat Gavin Newsom should be removed as governor. While Newsom retains support among most voters, the recall p...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden on Friday backed a recommendation that U.S. military prosecutions of sexual assaults be taken away from the chain of command and given to independent prosecut...