Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News

(Reuters) -British band The 1975 said on Sunday they has cancelled shows in Taiwan and Muslim-majority Indonesia, a day after Malaysia banned them from performing there after their frontman kissed a b...

(Reuters) - Tropical storm Don became a hurricane on Saturday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said in its latest advisory. Hurricane Don, which is moving in a northwest direction over the ce...

By Matt McKnight SATUS, Washington (Reuters) - A fast-growing wildfire forced residents to evacuate a rural stretch of southern Washington state's Klickitat County on Saturday after it burned more tha...

ATHENS (Reuters) - A wildfire raged uncontrolled on the Greek island of Rhodes on Saturday, forcing hundreds of people to flee affected villages and beaches, authorities said. Coastguard vessels and m...

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Torrential rains lashing the Canadian Atlantic province of Nova Scotia threatened to overwhelm a dam on Saturday and caused major damage in parts of Halifax, the largest city, offic...

By Matt McKnight (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of Taylor Swift fans descended on Seattle on Saturday ahead of the pop star's "The Eras Tour", her latest stop in tourism-boosting concerts across th...

By Rachel Nostrant and Julia Harte (Reuters) - Matthew Keith bought his first Barbie dolls in the 1970s using his allowance money, hiding them from his parents for fear they would say the toys were no...

By Sudarshan Varadhan and Nidhi Verma BAMBOLIM, India (Reuters) - A draft statement by Group of 20 energy officials was edited on Saturday to reflect concerns from some members on phasing down "unabat...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Prince William and his wife Kate have published a new photograph of their eldest son George to mark his 10th birthday on Saturday. The photograph, taken in Windsor earlier...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - The United States commissioned a warship in Sydney, Australia, on Saturday, the first time a U.S. Navy vessel joined active service at a foreign port, as the two close allies step u...