Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News

By Xiaoyu Yin and Josh Arslan BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese farmer Zhou Lu had raised hundreds of sheep for four years. Now they lie, belly up or on their sides, dead and bloated after drowning in a flo...

By Isla Binnie NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S.-based insurers have invested hundreds of billions of dollars in fossil fuel-related assets which in turn contribute to the risk of climate-related damage to th...

By Liliana Salgado TEMPE, Arizona (Reuters) - The pickleball craze in the U.S. has reached new heights with the opening last weekend of the first "Picklemall," an indoor sports facility inside a mall ...

By Rod Nickel WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - When Canadian dairy farmer Ben Loewith's calves are born next spring, they will be among the first in the world to be bred with a specific environmental go...

By Joseph Ax (Reuters) - Ohio voters will decide in a special election on Tuesday whether to make it more difficult to pass state constitutional amendments, including a November ballot initiative that...

By Nandita Bose and Trevor Hunnicutt GRAND CANYON VILLAGE, Arizona (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden will curb land development on a stretch of nearly 1 million acres (405,000 hectares) near Arizon...

By Timour Azhari, Mohammed Kadhim Atti and Maher Nazeh BASRA, Iraq (Reuters) - With temperatures that can go above 50C (122F), Iraqi building sites have long been a hazardous place to work in summer. ...

By Nandita Bose (Reuters) - President Joe Biden's top labor adviser, Celeste Drake, has stepped down, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter, leaving the administration with one les...

By David Stanway SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Sea ice in the Antarctic region has fallen to a record low this year as a result of rising global temperatures and there is no quick fix to reverse the damage do...

By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Landslides caused by heavy rain have killed at least one person, and blocked a major highway in Nepal this week, officials said on Tuesday, as the death toll from...