Новости за 21.01.2017

The unflattering depiction of police was too much for some members of Congress to take. Three times, Republican lawmakers (Rep. Duncan Hunter of California, Doug Lamborn of Colorado and, as a team, Dana Rohrabacher of California and Brian Babin of Texas) have taken the painting down and delivered it to the office of Rep. William Lacy Clay, a Missouri Democrat whose district includes Ferguson. ...

I’ve been writing about sex trafficking since the 1990s because at its worst it’s an echo of slavery. It’s also a topic rife with hypocrisy. We denounced the Catholic Church and Penn State for tolerating child sexual abuse, but we have collectively tolerated websites such as Backpage that sell children for sex. ...

I don’t mean to hold up the movies as some uniquely enlightened antidote to the ugliness elsewhere. Meryl Streep’s Hollywood-flattering speech at the Globes conveniently overlooked the industry’s habit of pairing male stars with female ones half their age, thwarting female directors, stereotyping minorities, glamorizing reprobates and putting money above morality time and again.

Trump did not “drain the swamp” as promised. He fortified it and made it deeper than ever. ...

Already, airline mergers have left us with four airlines that control 80 percent of the U.S. market. In the meantime, routes to small- to midsized markets have been cut by 20 percent; domestic fares climbed 5 percent over the past 10 years, and seat space on airplanes has reached near inhumane standards. ...

Cimarron-Memorial’s Demarco Alexander put in extra work this offseason, spending hours in the gym working on his jump shot ...

President Donald Trump, proudly unpresidential in word and tweet during the transition, readily embraced the pomp-and-patriotism visuals of the presidency Friday ...

While Airbnb is growing exponentially every year — with some markets seeing triple-digit growth in the number of units — the home-sharing units represent less than 4 percent of room nights sold and less than 3 percent of revenue in ...

With Dwayne Morgan officially sidelined for the season, UNLV’s best player is now … Jovan Mooring? The very notion would have been scoffed at before the season, or even as recently as a month ago. But despite Mooring’s humble beginnings ...

In an opening salvo against "Obamacare," President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday night that appears aimed squarely at ...

Citizens of China's capital Beijing are expressing doubts about President Donald Trump's ability to steer the U.S. economy and manage ...

Vietnamese gamblers will soon be allowed into local casinos under a three-year pilot project ...

In the heart of bustling lower Manhattan sits one of the country's most secure federal lockups — and the new home of Mexican drug lord Joaquin ...

A bomb exploded Saturday in a market in a northwestern tribal region that borders Afghanistan, killing at least 18 people and wounding at least ...

Police are investigating a shooting Friday night near the Denny's on Fremont Street in downtown Las Vegas. At least one round was fired but ...

The Clark County Clerk’s Marriage License Bureau and the local business community helped make a Colorado couple's wedding extra special ...

Nevada's new U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto was one of 11 Democrats who voted against President Trump's nominee for secretary of the Department of Homeland Security ...

More than 20 people escaped injury Friday when a flood swept cabins and vehicles down a coastal canyon as the second in a trio of storms drenched California with ...

A postdoctoral fellow who lost her right arm in a University of Hawaii laboratory explosion has sued the school and the researchers she worked for ...

The Republican-led Senate, taking little time to fill two critical national security posts, overwhelmingly confirmed ...

America is getting what it ordered on Election Day. If anyone was expecting an evolution from Donald Trump the candidate to Donald Trump the president, never mind. The new president delivered an inaugural address Friday that was ...

President Donald Trump has reportedly picked a fierce critic of the Obama-era "net neutrality" rules to be chief regulator of the nation's airwaves and internet connections. Citing unidentified people, Bloomberg and Politico both reported Friday that the next chairman of ...

John Moxley, serving a prison term of 30 years to life in the death of his 2-year-old son, has died at a Las Vegas hospital, according to the state Department of Corrections. Moxley, 53, had been imprisoned at the High Desert State Prison until his ...

Gov. Brian Sandoval is setting a goal that by 2025 all third-graders will be able to read proficiently. And by 2020, he wants the state’s high school graduation rate to ...

The website for Nevada’s medical marijuana program, which was shut down in December after a cyberattack, is back up running. The state Division of Public Behavioral Health said ...