Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News

By Jeff Mason and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Flags are lowered, sorrowful statements are issued, pleas to lawmakers are made, again. In the wake of two mass shootings in California this week...

By Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris will host a summit at the White House on Friday to speed up the removal of lead pipes across America - an issue she has previou...

By Tim Reid WEARE, New Hampshire (Reuters) - When Donald Trump trounced his Republican rivals in New Hampshire's 2016 primary, the stunning win announced to other states the reality TV showman was a s...

By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two men will be sentenced on Friday for their roles in the pepper-spray assault of a U.S. Capitol police officer who died the day after the Jan. 6, 2021, riot,...

By Alyssa Pointer and Steve Gorman MEMPHIS, Tenn. (Reuters) - The police department in the city of Memphis was set on Friday to release body-camera video of a violent confrontation between a Black mot...

By Jarrett Renshaw and Jeff Mason (Reuters) -U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan is considering stepping down, according to four sources familiar with the matter. Regan ha...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Five Chinese citizens were among the victims in a shooting in the California town of Half Moon Bay, the Chinese Consulate General in San Francisco said. The Half Moon Bay shooting ...

By David Thomas (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Thursday sentenced disbarred lawyer Colinford Mattis to one year and one day in prison for his role in setting fire to an empty New York City police car wit...

(Reuters) - Anti-abortion protesters broke into the room where Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc held its annual shareholders meeting in Newport Coast, California on Thursday for its decision to start sell...

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers pressed the acting head of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Thursday on steps the agency was taking to ensure there would be no repea...