Новости за 29.01.2016

For the first time since the death of her husband and former manager, Rene Angelil, and the two-day funeral observances last week in Montreal, Caesars Palace headliner and global superstar singer Celine Dion has reached out to fans and friends.

Police captured one of three fugitive inmates on Friday after they escaped a week ago from a California jail while facing charges involving violent crimes. Bac Duong, 43, was arrested by police in Santa Ana, the same city where ...

President Barack Obama sought to showcase progress on his watch on closing the pay gap for women while keeping up the pressure on business, Congress and individuals to tackle an issue he said was still far from being solved. Marking the seventh anniversary of signing ...

A wrongful death lawsuit has been dropped against the U.S. Bureau of Land Management and two federal agents who shot and killed a man on a highway outside Las Vegas in 2014. U.S. District Court records show no recent case ...

The northbound lanes of Interstate 15 near the Las Vegas Motor Speedway were temporarily shut down today after a crash involving a car and two semitractors, according to the Nevada Highway Patrol. The trucks ...

Crews are tearing down a multimillion-dollar San Francisco house that is sliding off a hill, threatening other homes. Homeowner Ronald Martell says the house has separated more than a foot from the curb ...

Ammon Bundy and his followers made ample use of social media and videos to summon armed recruits to join their takeover of a wildlife refuge and to declare their readiness to stand their ground. Now federal authorities are using ...

Ted Cruz spoke of millions losing health coverage — but more than 16 million people have gained it, shrinking the pool of uninsured like never before. Donald Trump laid roughly the entire U.S. trade deficit at the feet of China, botching the numbers. Chris Christie overlooked ...

A U.S. appeals court on Friday gave new life to a lawsuit by a group of Holocaust survivors seeking damages from Hungary for its role in the deaths of more than 500,000 Jews during World War II. The ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit said ...

Members of a satanic group will give the opening prayer at an upcoming Phoenix City Council meeting. Some council members have objected, but city attorney Brad Holm says the government cannot exclude a ...

Top House Democrat Nancy Pelosi is praising Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders for getting more young people "interested in the political process" as he mounts a surprisingly strong race for the Democratic presidential nomination. The California congresswoman says ...

A 20-year-old man died early today in a single-car crash in the east valley, according to Metro Police. About 1:40 a.m., the man ...

Reigning NBA MVP Stephen Curry and likely next NFL MVP Cam Netwon have become friends over the former’s fandom of the Carolina Panthers. Curry and Newton will turn to adversaries in at least one Las Vegas sports book next weekend. ...

State officials say Nevada gambling revenue was up 1 percent in calendar year 2015 compared with 2014. The Nevada Gaming Control Board said Friday that the state's casinos won $11.1 billion last calendar year. Slot machines ...

Donald Trump held court in New Hampshire Friday, while his presidential competitors in both parties hustled through Iowa in a last-minute scramble to win over fence-sitters before the state's crucial caucuses. Hundreds of voters waited Trump's arrival in Nashua for a rally scheduled the morning after a Fox News debate the Republican front-runner shunned ...

The Mexican national charged with fatally shooting a young San Francisco woman walking on a city pier is seeking dismissal of his criminal case, which added to the national debate over illegal immigration. Juan Francisco Sanchez-Lopez and his lawyer Matt Gonzalez are expected to ...

Two men who helped engineer a secret Navy contract to build hundreds of untraceable rifle silencers are being sentenced in federal court. Race-car mechanic Mark Landersman of Temecula, California, received the no-bid contract. Naval intelligence officer Lee Hall of Sterling was ...

The probable mastermind in the brazen escape of three inmates from a California jail had help from a woman whose English classes he was taking while locked up, authorities allege. Escapee Hussein Nayeri, 37, came to know Nooshafarin Ravaghi, 44, during ...

Police say a suicide car bomber has blown himself up outside the gate of an army facility in southwest Pakistan, wounding at least five people. Senior police officer Zahid Afzal says the attacker detonated ...

The Texas teenager who used an "affluenza" defense in a fatal drunken-driving wreck is expected to learn Friday whether he'll be moved to an adult jail as he awaits a judge's ruling on transferring ...

The U.S. economy's growth slowed sharply in the final three months of 2015 to a 0.7 percent annual rate. Consumers slowed spending, businesses cut back on investment and ...

Iran flew a surveillance drone over a U.S. aircraft carrier and took "precise" photographs of it as part of an ongoing naval drill, state media reported Friday. The U.S. Navy said an unarmed Iranian drone flew near a French and American carrier ...

I love poetic justice. This wild and wacky Republican presidential campaign deserved Sarah Palin, and now it’s got her.

The former publisher of USA Today will lead the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the newspaper announced Thursday. Craig A. Moon, the R-J's new publisher, said in an interview that he would work for the company backed by family members of casino magnate Sheldon Adelson and ...

In the letter to the editor “PUC doesn’t act in public’s benefit” (Las Vegas Sun, Jan. 16), the writer repeats the oft-misunderstood idea that the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada’s prime objective should be as a protector of consumer rights. That would be the role of the Bureau of Consumer Protection in Carson City.