Новости за 26.11.2015

Former University of Houston men's basketball coach Guy V. Lewis has died. He was 93.

This dream season is starting to get real for third-ranked Iowa. Now that the Hawkeyes (11-0, 7-0 Big Ten) have moved up to No. 4 in the College Football Playoff rankings, destiny is in their hands. Get win No. 12 at Nebraska on Friday and No. 13 next week in the …

Sebastian Coe is giving up his role as a special adviser to Nike Inc. that left the new president of the IAAF open to accusations that he was vulnerable to conflicts of interest.

Hurricane Sandra has strengthened to a powerful Category 4 storm in the eastern Pacific off Mexico's coast.

Through wars, financial panics and a freeze that destroyed its peach crop a century ago, eight generations of the Lyman family have sustained its farm in the hills of central Connecticut.

The slow road to build a permanent memorial at the site of a nightclub fire that killed 100 people 12 years ago is getting shorter, as organizers said they are inching closer to raising the $2 million they need to complete it.

A former administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration whose work is credited with highlighting the fragility of the world's oceans, has died. John A. Knauss was 90.

A black teenager shot 16 times by a white Chicago police officer was a ward of the state when he died, having spent years being shuttled between different relatives' homes and foster care from the time he was 3.

Two brothers survived two massive avalanches while skiing in Colorado's backcountry even though both feared the other was dead.

Giant balloons took to the clear, sunny sky over midtown Manhattan on Thursday for the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, with spectators lining up along the parade route and a heavy police presence keeping a watchful eye. The parade, in its 89th year, included marching bands and floats …

Scientists who've been cultivating gumweed at the University of Nevada Reno think they are on the verge of producing diesel fuel, and perhaps someday jet fuel, from the sticky cousin of the sunflower that grows across much of Nevada's high desert and doesn't compete for …

As we recuperate from an overindulgence later today of turkey and all the trimmings, we have much to be thankful for this holiday weekend: Family, friends, health and being able to live the good life in The Entertainment Capital of the World.

I wasn’t raised in the United States. I’m of the British persuasion, and 50 years into my life in the New World, I still think there isn’t much as nifty as Thanksgiving. But to a point.

Thanksgiving celebrates human cooperation. And even though the European colonization of America was not exactly a cooperative venture, the inaugural 1621 Plymouth Thanksgiving feast certainly was. That historical reality reminds us why Thanksgiving is worth celebrating today — that one of humanity’s best traits is our ability to take something dark and make it bright.

The Bishop Gorman High basketball team may be the four-time defending Division I state champions, but with multiple unproven players expected to contribute, most feel the Gaels can be beat this season. Centennial has one of the nation’s best players in ...

Thanksgiving is about gratitude, which is a disposition, a virtue and a way of thinking all at once.

For a big helping of infectious holiday spirit in The Entertainment Capital of the World, it doesn’t get much better than Human Nature’s “Motown, Christmas & More” at the Venetian with Broadway-bound guest Ruby Lewis.

There is a plaque on Cole Hill in Plymouth, Mass., that reads, “Since 1970, Native Americans have gathered at noon on Cole’s Hill in Plymouth to commemorate a National Day of Mourning on the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday. Many Native Americans do not celebrate the arrival of Pilgrims and other European settlers. To them, Thanksgiving Day is a reminder of the genocide of millions of their people, the theft of their lands and the relentless assault on their culture. Participants in a National Day of Mourning... Читать дальше...

Not to be redundant having already drooled over this game in the pick’em column, but this is really a fantastic spot for the Cowboys. ...

You may not know what tribologists are, but they know Las Vegas. The scientists are among a broad range of groups that hold conventions or trade shows in Sin City, where such other organizations as ...

Temperatures today are expected to dip below 40 degrees at McCarran International Airport for the first time since February, and a freeze warning is in effect late tonight through ...

The NFC East race has come down to the final game of the regular season in four of the past six years. It’s right on pace to happen again ...

Last year, Jordan Spieth played what he called the best round of his life by shooting a record 8-under 63 to win the Australian Open by six strokes ...

Pope Francis told Christian and Muslim leaders in Kenya on Thursday that they have little choice but to engage in dialogue to guard against ...

Atlanta Police Sgt. Warren Pickard says 40-year-old O'Neil Bell was gunned down Wednesday morning. Pickard says Bell and another person were shot while ...