Новости за 19.05.2016

Tony Bennett gets a 21-champagne magnum salute on the Brooklyn Bridge outside New York-New York as marquees on the Strip switch from regular neon lighting to a portrait of the superstar entertainer whose career began 70 years ago.

Resorts World Las Vegas took a big step forward today when Nevada gaming officials gave a key regulatory approval to the $4 billion project. The Nevada Gaming Commission ...

Roger Federer pulled out of the French Open on Thursday, ending his record streak of appearing in 65 consecutive Grand Slam tournaments — every one since the start of 2000. The 17-time major champion, who had a knee operation this year but ...

A recent national poll finds that nine of 10 Native Americans aren't offended by the Washington Redskins name. The poll conducted by the Washington Post indicated ...

Two motorcyclists were killed in separate wrecks Wednesday in the central valley, according to Metro Police. A 65-year-old Las Vegas man was riding ...

Any doctor who performs an abortion in Oklahoma could be charged with a felony and punished with up to three years in prison under a bill that the Legislature passed Thursday. The measure is the first of its kind in the nation, according to abortion rights group Center for Reproductive Rights. The bill also would restrict any ...

Democratic congressional candidate Lucy Flores released her first television ad today, a little more than a week before early voting begins. The ad highlights her positions on ...

CBS says veteran journalist and "60 Minutes" correspondent Morley Safer has died at age 84. Safer was equally at home reporting ...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau apologized before the Canadian Parliament for a third time Thursday, saying he expects better behavior of himself after elbowing a female lawmaker in the chest and ...

Authorities say a woman hit by a vehicle near the Las Vegas Strip was taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries. Metro Police say the crash happened about 5:15 a.m. today on ...

Former "Saved by the Bell" star Dustin Diamond says his time behind bars on disorderly conduct and concealed-weapon convictions isn't like "what you see on TV." Diamond says in an interview with Extra's Mario Lopez that jail was "daunting" and "scary," but he says "you can get in and out unscathed" if ...

How do you teach the history of the world in California schools, where nearly two-thirds of students are Latino or Asian, many from newly immigrated families? That's the challenge facing a California panel charged with ...

As soldiers searched Thursday for hundreds of people missing after landslides swallowed three central Sri Lankan villages, family members huddled in crowded shelters waiting for news about the ...

Not so long ago (Sunday, to be exact) in a small town far, far to the east of Atlanta (actually about 50 miles), a man spent the night in jail for ...

The House has voted to ban the display of the Confederate flag on flagpoles at Veterans Administration cemeteries. The 265-159 vote would block descendants and others seeking to ...

A judge aggressively questioned prosecutors Thursday about why they charged an officer with assault in the arrest of Freddie Gray, and asked whether every officer who makes an arrest without probable cause should be charged with a crime. Baltimore Circuit Judge Barry Williams grilled ...

In any given week, teams of high-priced lawyers fan out across the country to defend Bill Cosby amid a cascade of sexual assault allegations, defamation claims and insurance disputes. The disgraced TV star is spending millions in ...

Republicans controlling both the House and the Senate are facing tricky negotiations with each other and the White House over how to handle the public health threat posed by the Zika virus. In the House, a partisan 241-184 vote Wednesday night to ...

Police in North Las Vegas say a man is dead after a shooting involving police officers at a casino. Officer Ann Cavaricci says the shooting happened about 5:45 a.m. Thursday at ...

The Securities And Exchange Commission is filing a complaint against professional golfer Phil Mickelson related to insider trading. The SEC says a gambler named William Walters received tips and ...

The weekend melee at the Nevada Democratic convention continued to echo across the nation on Wednesday. In a storyline playing out in national media, the clash spiraled into ...

After an 11-year tenure at UW-Milwaukee abruptly ended in March, Rob Jeter took a little time to figure his next step. Turned out a few weeks of full-time duty checking off the honey-do list at home was all he needed to get the coaching juices flowing again, so when he started figuring out job opportunities the process went rather quickly.

Sen. Bernie Sanders’ relationship with the leadership of the Democratic Party and his colleagues on Capitol Hill was strained further Wednesday as he and his campaign ...

Chinese billionaire Jia Yueting had a roughly 94 percent stake in a company that has been buying Clark County land and working with officials on behalf of ...

Supporters of the country’s most sweeping school choice program finally have a reason to celebrate. On Wednesday, following months of back and forth in Las Vegas courtrooms ...