Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News

By Jane Lanhee Lee and Nathan Frandino (Reuters) - Silicon Valley's innovation engine has been slow to produce useful new tools to help firefighters like Dave Winnacker extinguish the deadly blazes th...

By Paresh Dave and Andy Sullivan OAKLAND, Calif./WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When election officials in at least 29 U.S. counties face an expected avalanche of mail-in ballots in the Nov. 3 presidential el...

By Stephanie Kelly and Jarrett Renshaw NEW YORK (Reuters) - President Donald Trump, looking to shore up support in the U.S. Farm Belt during a tight race for re-election, is taking steps to help produ...

By Phil Stewart (Reuters) - Once one of President Donald Trump's most senior military advisers, retired General Paul Selva is joining a large group of former Pentagon leaders to publicly endorse Democ...

By James Oliphant WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With speculation swirling over his pick for the U.S. Supreme Court, President Donald Trump heads to Florida on Thursday, hoping to shore up support in that hot...

By Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The bitter confirmation battle over President Donald Trump's last Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, looms large for the Senate Judiciary Committee as it ...

By Julie Gordon and Fergal Smith OTTAWA/TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada's vow to double down on pandemic-related spending to keep the economic recovery under way in the face of a second wave of COVID-19 in...

By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As businesses shuttered and millions hit the unemployment line last spring, the most dour predictions saw the United States heading for another Great Depress...

By Valerie Volcovici and David Stanway WASHINGTON/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - After several years of dismissing global action to fight climate change, U.S. leadership was formally challenged this week by Chi...

(Reuters) - Facebook Inc's long-delayed independent Oversight Board plans to launch in mid-late October, just before the November U.S. presidential election, although a board member said he did not kn...