Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News

By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate energy committee on Thursday voted 11-9 to advance Representative Deb Haaland to the full Senate to confirm her as Interior Secretary, a key hurd...

By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett on Thursday authored her first ruling since joining the U.S. Supreme Court in October as the court handed a defeat to a...

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden will meet Thursday with a bipartisan group of lawmakers on the White House's planned push for a massive jump in spending on projects to r...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden will sign a sweeping election reform bill after it is refined and passed by Congress, he said on Thursday, a day after it passed the U.S. House of Representa...

By Julia Harte WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Security has been tightened around the U.S. Capitol in Washington - scene of a deadly assault in January - after police warned that a militia group might try to a...

By Makini Brice WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate is expected to begin debating President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package on Thursday after agreeing to phase out payments to ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday passed H.R. 1, its flagship election reform bill that would update voting procedures and require states to turn over the task of r...

(Reuters) - Texas' power grid manager Bill Magness was fired amid growing calls for his ouster following February's deadly blackouts, the Associated Press reported on Wednesday. Magness, chief executi...

By Makini Brice and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill on Wednesday banning controversial police tactics and easing the way for lawsuits against offic...

By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The 13 people killed in a Southern California highway crash were part of a group of nearly four dozen migrants suspected of slipping through a hole cut by human...