Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Administration will award $3.7 billion to help rebuild Puerto Rico's water and wastewater treatment plants, pumping stations, dams and rese...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The office of the U.S. Director of National Intelligence on Tuesday said Russia was "likely" behind a string of hacks identified last month that it said breached fewer than 1...

By Ernest Scheyder (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's outgoing administration plans to approve a land swap on Jan. 15 that Rio Tinto Ltd and partners need to build a copper mine in Arizona, cle...

By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Justice Department on Tuesday tapped a new top federal prosecutor to preside over the Atlanta office, a day after the Trump-appointed U.S. Attorney there a...

(Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it had administered 4,836,469 first doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country as of Tuesday morning and distributed 17,020,575 dose...

By Jonathan Allen (Reuters) - Lawyers for Lisa Montgomery, a convicted murderer and the only woman on federal death row, asked U.S. President Donald Trump to halt her execution scheduled for next week...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic President-elect Joe Biden plans to name U.S. foreign policy veterans Wendy Sherman and Victoria Nuland to be the No. 2 and No. 3 officials at the State Department, Po...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Total bankruptcy filings for 2020 hit their lowest level since 1986 as a flood of government support programs offset at least temporarily the economic damage from the coronaviru...

By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump is seeking the dismissal of a lawsuit claiming he defrauded his niece out of an inheritance worth tens of millions of dollars, accu...

By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. factory activity accelerated to its highest level in nearly 2-1/2 years in December as the coronavirus pandemic continues to pull demand away from service...