Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News

By David Morgan and Katharine Jackson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans who control the U.S. House of Representatives face an uphill battle this week passing their first two fiscal 2024 spending bill...

By Jacqueline Thomsen (Reuters) - Rudy Giuliani, onetime attorney for former U.S. President Donald Trump, admitted in a court filing late Tuesday that he made defamatory statements about a pair of Geo...

By Kate Abnett BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union wants to sign contracts this year for up to 12 firefighting planes, the first it would fully own, to improve its ability to fight blazes fuelled ...

By Joseph Ax (Reuters) - A coalition of booksellers, authors and publishers has sued Texas seeking to block a new state law that bans "sexually explicit" books from public schools. The law, which was ...

By Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden has picked former Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley to lead the massive, financially challenged U.S. agency that distributes Social ...

GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations body responsible for assessing the latest climate change science on Wednesday elected Jim Skea of the United Kingdom as its new chair. The Intergovernmental Panel...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sales of new U.S. single-family homes fell in June, but the trend remains strong as an acute shortage of previously owned homes underpins demand. New home sales dropped 2.5% to ...

By Luc Cohen and Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) -British billionaire Joe Lewis has surrendered to U.S. authorities in Manhattan and is expected to appear in court later on Wednesday to face insid...

LISBON (Reuters) - As Lisbon gears up for a long visit by Pope Francis next week, a local pastry shop has rolled out a brand-new treat to mark the occasion: a cookie with the pontiff's picture on it t...

TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisian firefighters have completely contained the fires that broke out in a number of regions of the country, with the help of members of the Algerian army and firefighting planes ...