Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives sought to defend Donald Trump against his latest criminal indictment on Wednesday, by casting the former president as the victim...

MCLEAN, Virginia (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Wednesday voiced more objections to Fitch Ratings' downgrade of the main U.S. credit rating, calling it "entirely unwarranted" beca...

(Reuters) - After more than a year of search, the Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank has a new leader: Jeffrey Schmid, a former banking executive who ran three different financial institutions over a fo...

(Reuters) - A federal jury on Wednesday voted to sentence Robert Bowers to death for killing 11 worshippers at Pittsburgh's Tree of Life synagogue in 2018, the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. his...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives Oversight Committee said Wednesday it is opening an investigation into China's suspected involvement in recent breaches of Commerce and State d...

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Wednesday said that next week's summit of Amazon region nations will seek to draw up a common policy for the first time to protect th...

By Davide Barbuscia NEW YORK (Reuters) -Fitch made its decision to downgrade the U.S. credit rating due to fiscal concerns and a deterioration in U.S governance as well as polarization which was refle...

TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan will shut markets and schools in northern parts of the island including the capital Taipei on Thursday as slow-moving Typhoon Khanun was expected to brush past amid warnings ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China will allocate 432 million yuan ($60 million) in flood relief funds to support agricultural output hit by heavy rainfall in eight provinces including Hebei, the agriculture mi...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. private payrolls increased more than expected in July, pointing to continued labor market resilience that could shield the economy from a recession. Private payrolls rose b...