Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. judge has refused Donald Trump's bid to dismiss writer E. Jean Carroll's original lawsuit accusing the former U.S. president of defaming her in June 2019 by denying he rape...

By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House Republicans sought testimony on Thursday from more than a dozen officials from the Justice Department, FBI and other government agencies involved in t...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Donald Trump and other top U.S. Republican leaders hailed the Supreme Court's rejection on Thursday of race-conscious student admissions programs at two universities, with the f...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Thursday said it condemned the burning of a Koran outside a mosque in Sweden a day before, even though it added that issuing the permit for the demonstratio...

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Christine King Farris, the sister of slain U.S. civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr and a prominent activist herself, died on Thursday at the age of 95, ...

By Karl Plume CHICAGO (Reuters) - The most intense drought to hit the U.S. Midwest farm belt since 2012 deepened over the past week, sapping soil moisture and threatening crop yield potential in the h...

By Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden on Thursday urged colleges to take into account challenges that applicants face - including racial discrimination - during the admissions proc...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Michael Bennet, a Democrat who is active in artificial-intelligence issues, wrote to leading tech firms on Thursday to urge them to label AI-generated content and l...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Harvard University said on Thursday it will comply with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down its race-conscious student admissions programs in a way that will preserve...

By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department this week charged the top law enforcement official in Culpeper County, Virginia, with fraud, conspiracy and bribery, alleging he ab...