Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House on Monday said President Joe Biden will invite the U.S. Super Bowl champions, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and last season's NBA champions, the L.A. Lakers to the W...

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats in the U.S. Congress are set to release a sweeping plan on Monday to provide more than $50 billion in additional assistance to U.S. airlines, trans...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden's proposal to raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour by June 2025 would reduce employment by 1.4 million jobs that year and increase the U.S. budget def...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, citing steady improvement in the state's measures to curb the spread of the coronavirus, on Monday moved up the date on which New York City restaur...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican U.S. Senator Richard Shelby said on Monday he would not seek reelection for a seventh term in 2022. Shelby, 86, was first elected to the Senate in 1986 as a Democrat ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Political appointees in former U.S. President Donald Trump's administration interfered with public health guidance on the coronavirus to justify reopening schools and businesses...

(Reuters) - The best defense against the evolution of COVID-19 and the emergence of variant strains is getting as many people vaccinated as quickly as possible, top U.S. infectious disease doctor Anth...

By Makini Brice WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Less than five weeks after the deadly assault on the U.S. Capitol that sparked former President Donald Trump's second impeachment trial, the complex is a fortres...

By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former President Trump faced a deadline to submit a pretrial brief on Monday, a day before the Senate is due to begin his second impeachment trial on a charge of...

By Michelle Conlin (Reuters) - As freezing temperatures settled over Kansas City, Missouri, on Jan. 28, Judge Jack Grate opened his online courtroom. The first of 100 cases on his docket was that of T...