Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News

By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - Lawyers for the British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell have accused the U.S. government of prosecuting her for aiding Jeffrey Epstein's sexual abuses only because...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden's administration on Friday announced that the Pentagon had approved the deployment of 1,100 active-duty troops to assist with COVID-19 vaccination efforts in...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A senior U.S. House lawmaker told reporters that a COVID-19 relief package would include a new round of payroll assistance for U.S. airline workers. Representative Peter DeFazio...

By Jonnelle Marte (Reuters) - President Joe Biden is presenting his plan on Friday for addressing one of the greatest challenges created by the COVID-19 pandemic - how to get millions of out-of-work A...

By Steve Keating (Reuters) - America's biggest sporting spectacle will play out in a mostly empty stadium in Tampa, Florida, on Sunday with more cardboard-cutout fans than real ones taking in the Supe...

By Rod Nickel WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - Canadian fashion designer Peter Nygard was denied bail on Friday by a judge in Winnipeg, Manitoba, on a U.S. extradition request over charges of sex traffi...

(Reuters) - The U.S. National Labor Relations Board on Friday denied Amazon.com Inc's motion to halt the union election at the company's Bessemer, Alabama warehouse and its request to review the decis...

By Brendan O'Brien and Jonathan Allen (Reuters) - Lawmakers in Virginia are expected to vote on Friday to make it the first Southern state to abolish the death penalty, a significant sign of the wanin...

(Reuters) - The United States Air Force is investigating an intruder at Joint Base Andrews, the military facility in Maryland that is home to Air Force One, the aircraft that flies the president. "An ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - The German government welcomed U.S. President Joe Biden's announcement that his administration would suspend any planned troop withdrawals from Germany in another sign of thawing re...