Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News

By Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden on Wednesday urged the U.S. Senate to quickly confirm Julie Su as Labor Department secretary and hailed his nominee for her past work to incr...

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Senate committee will vote next week on issuing a subpoena for Starbucks Corp Chief Executive Howard Schultz to testify at a hearing on the company's ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee voted on Wednesday to give President Joe Biden the power to ban Chinese-owned social media app TikTok and other apps. Lawmakers voted 24...

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Norfolk Southern Chief Executive Alan Shaw has agreed to testify before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee next week on a Feb. 3 Ohio train de...

By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) - The Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives voted on Tuesday to block a Biden administration rule allowing employee retirement plans to consider environmental, soci...

By Nathan Layne (Reuters) - Closing arguments are set to start on Wednesday in the trial of Richard "Alex" Murdaugh, the now-disbarred South Carolina lawyer charged with gunning down his wife and son ...

By John Kruzel and Andrew Chung WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The skepticism expressed by conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices toward President Joe Biden's move to forgive $430 billion in student debt no...

By Sarah N. Lynch and Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) - Massachusetts U.S. Attorney Rachael Rollins has hired a former Justice Department inspector general to defend her in a widening ethics investigati...

By Brad Brooks (Reuters) - Los Angeles County will pay the wife of late basketball star Kobe Bryant nearly $29 million to settle a lawsuit over allegations that sheriff officers and firefighters share...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Ghislaine Maxwell asked a U.S. appeals court to throw out her conviction for helping the financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse teenage girls, saying she was immune from prosecu...