Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News

By Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Nearly 14% of U.S. President Joe Biden's 1,500 federal agency appointees identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer, he said on Tuesday in a procl...

(Reuters) - Florida on Tuesday became the latest and by far the largest state to ban transgender women and girls from participating in school sports, part of a campaign in statehouses nationwide this ...

By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday endorsed Native American tribal police powers, backing the authority of a tribal officer in Montana to stop and search a non...

By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear Johnson & Johnson's bid to overturn a $2.12 billion damages award to women who blamed their ovarian cancer on...

(Reuters) - One young woman grew alarmed when she saw Confederate flags pop up around her small town. Another student often quietly knitted to persevere through stress. A Black teenager in the South f...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden will host Republican U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito on Wednesday for infrastructure talks, the White House said, as the Democratic administration works wi...

By Ned Parker NEW YORK (Reuters) - Tucson hired a forester. Miami named a heat officer. And Los Angeles appointed a climate emergency mobilization director. Across the United States, cities have launc...

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Cruise LLC, the autonomous vehicle (AV) company majority-owned by General Motors Co, has urged President Joe Biden to back efforts to speed thousands of self...

By Stephanie Keith PAWHUSKA, Okla. (Reuters) - Native American tribes from the United States and Canada converged on Oklahoma for the Indian Relay Horse Race this weekend, helping to revive horse heri...

By Norma Galeana and Christopher Walljasper FIREBAUGH, Calif. (Reuters) - Joe Del Bosque is leaving a third of his 2,000-acre farm near Firebaugh, California, unseeded this year due to extreme drought...