Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News

(Reuters) - A fire broke out at Dow's Plaquemine chemical facility in Louisiana, the U.S. chemical maker said in a statement late on Friday. Everyone at the facility was accounted for and the fire was...

(Reuters) - U.S. Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson is stepping down as head of the Chicago-based Rainbow PUSH Coalition he founded, according to remarks he made during a recent broadcast. Jackson, 81,...

(Reuters) - Mountain Valley Pipeline LLC asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to vacate stays imposed by a federal court halting construction of a portion of its West Virginia-to-Virginia natural ga...

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives is set to vote next week on legislation to raise the mandatory commercial pilot retirement age to 67 from 65 and make other...

By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) - A federal judge in Kentucky ruled Friday that the state can enforce its law banning the use of puberty-blocking drugs and hormones for transgender children while it appe...

By Karen Freifeld and Andrea Shalal (Reuters) - Two U.S. senators are pursuing a legislative plan to track U.S. investments in China, as the White House works to complete long-awaited action that woul...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Virgin Islands said it wants JPMorgan Chase to pay $150 million in civil penalties plus additional damages to resolve a lawsuit accusing the largest U.S. bank of ignoring...

By Josephine Walker WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate in the coming days is expected to consider a bipartisan measure that would compel the U.S. government to publicly release records relating to poss...

(Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Friday temporarily blocked a lower court order that had sharply limited certain Biden administration officials' and agencies' contacts with social media companies w...

By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury said on Friday that nearly half of the $350 billion in COVID-19 assistance to state, local, tribal and territorial governments was budgeted as ...