Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News

By Mary Milliken (Reuters) - Sixto Rodriguez, an American singer-songwriter whose outsized popularity in South Africa inspired the Oscar-winning documentary "Searching for Sugar Man," passed away on T...

By Gram Slattery WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A staff shake-up by 2024 Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis is unlikely to presage a major strategy shift, according to several people close to the ...

By Rich McKay and Julia Harte (Reuters) - Fires fanned by the winds of a distant hurricane devastated parts of Hawaii's Maui and Big Island on Wednesday, forcing some residents to evacuate and turning...

By Zeba Siddiqui SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The White House on Wednesday said it had launched a multimillion-dollar cyber contest to spur use of artificial intelligence (AI) to find and fix security fl...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Jack Smith, the U.S. special counsel who is investigating Donald Trump, obtained a search warrant for the former president's Twitter account in January and the social media plat...

BELEM (Reuters) - Twelve forest countries at the Amazon summit in Brazil on Wednesday called on developed nations to fulfill their climate financing obligations and to contribute $200 billion per year...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - UN human rights chief Volker Turk said on Wednesday said that the extreme summer heat and pollution of southern Iraq where he has been visiting had made it clear "that the era of g...

By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) - A new lawsuit accuses the U.S. military of discriminating against as many as 35,000 veterans who were barred from serving because of their sexual orientation by failing ...

(Reuters) - U.S. passenger railroad Amtrak and Texas Central Partners said Wednesday they are seeking federal grants for proposed high-speed rail service between Dallas and Houston. Amtrak and Texas C...

(Reuters) - Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on Wednesday suspended a county prosecutor after accusing her of being soft on crime, making her the second elected Democratic law-enforcement official to be ...