Новости за 29.01.2017

Seven adults and two children were displaced after an apartment complex caught fire this morning in North Las Vegas ...

A 56-year-old man was killed this morning in a rollover accident in the central valley ...

The commitment ends an active month for the 6-foot-4, 290-pound senior who also visited Auburn and played in the Polynesian Bowl in Hawaii ...

A man who was confronted by a homeowner when he and a group of people cased a west valley neighborhood was shot and ...

Whether it’s a small apartment or a million-dollar mansion, every home comes with its own specific challenges. The new Living Spaces in Summerlin’s Boca Park gives us a platform to start stylishly tackling them ...

This dinner favorite takes almost three hours to prepare and has many steps, but it’s not so complicated that a seasoned home cook can’t re-create it for a special occasion.

The Boulder Pines Family Apartments will feature an innovative campus environment that includes a number of Southern Nevada nonprofit groups collaborating to provide a range of family and community services.

Feeling lucky? Gaming establishments throughout Southern Nevada offer deals and promotions for gamers ...

Audi says 2013-2017 model year A5, A5 Cabriolet and Q5 SUVs with 2.0-liter turbocharged engines may have an electric coolant pump that can get blocked with debris. If that happens, the pump can overheat and cause a fire. The recall affects 342,867 vehicles. ...

"The prognosis for Governor Brown is excellent," Small added in a brief statement released by Brown's office. He said 78-year-old governor is not expected to experience any significant side effects.

What better Christmas present to Nevadans and all Americans than the new designation of Gold Butte National Monument! I am grateful to Sen. Harry Reid, Rep. Dina Titus, former Rep. Steven Horsford, and newly elected Rep. Ruben Kihuen and Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto for their support of Gold Butte. ...

The order drew sharp and widespread condemnation Saturday from Democrats, religious groups, business leaders, academics and others, who called it inhumane, discriminatory and akin to taking a “wrecking ball to the Statue of Liberty.” Thousands of professors, including several Nobel laureates, signed a statement calling it a “major step towards implementing the stringent racial and religious profiling promised on the campaign trail. ...

U.N. humanitarian chief Stephen O'Brien visited a local camp for displaced persons on Saturday, saying that "these people are really struggling to survive." He cautioned, however, against "dramatizing by saying this may degenerate into famine." ...

The United States of America is an amazing country. I live in a safe country where I can express my feelings and not be afraid. In many other countries, people do not have the options to live the lives they want. Some governments do not allow free speech and restrict the rights of women and other people they think should not have authority. In many countries, I would be considered to be useless or of less value to my family and community simply because I was born with a disease. ...

He has flouted the norms of regular pool reporting and news conferences. He has herded his traveling reporters into a pen at his rallies and jeered them as “scum,” “absolutely dishonest” and other choice Trumpisms, just to thrill the crowd.Such antics only underscore the goofy relationship between Trump and the media that Salena Zito captured so well in her Trump coverage for The Atlantic: “(The) press takes him literally but not seriously; his supporters take him seriously but not literally.” ...

To crib a line from the movie “Tombstone,” if you want a fight, Sandoval’s your huckleberry. ...

With Donald Trump surprisingly winning the presidential election, add the White House to the Republican-controlled list on the federal level, joining both chambers of Congress. The U.S. Supreme Court also will be a member of that list ...

So how will Trump handle the bad news of rising unemployment, plunging health coverage and little, if any, crime reduction? That’s obvious: He’ll deny reality, the way he always does when it threatens his narcissism. But will his supporters go along with his fantasy? ...

My head is swirling from “alternative facts,” trade deals canceled, pipelines initiated, Obamacare in the Twilight Zone, and utterly bizarre rants about attendance on Inauguration Day and fake voters on Election Day. Whatever this cost Vladimir Putin, he’s already gotten his money’s worth — a chaos president. Pass the vodka. ...

“Alternative facts?” Call me old fashioned, but is that a euphemism for lying? I’m just asking. ...

Beyond this civic interest in honest athletics, there is a matter of justice. Many former ballplayers missed having major league careers, or longer major league careers with larger contracts, because they competed honestly against cheating opponents, or lost playing time to cheating teammates. These handicapped-because-honorable players could have leveled the playing field only by using dangerous PEDs, thereby jeopardizing their physical and mental health and forfeiting their integrity. ...

The most important announcement of Trump’s first week in office, however, may very well be that he soon plans to name his selection to fill Justice Antonin Scalia’s still-vacant Supreme Court seat. According to reports by The New York Times and Politico, among other outlets, Trump has narrowed his search to two or three, with the Times reporting 11th Circuit Court of Appeals Judge William Pryor and 10th Circuit Judge Neil Gorsuch the most likely to be chosen. Based on what we know about the two jurists, whom is Trump likely to pick? Читать дальше...

I think we are seeing the effects of the Affordable Care Act as this program matures and people who would be visiting the emergency room as a last resort, and as nonpaying patients, take advantage of their new medical insurance. They are either seeking non-emergency care or are covering the emergency care with insurance. ...

An estimated 7,000 people, many of them wearing air masks and gas masks underneath thick winter hats, braved temperatures that fell below minus 20 degrees Celsius (minus 4 Fahrenheit). Standing in the city's central Sukhbataar Square, they held black balloons and protest signs. One banner read: "Wake up and smell the smog." ...

Here’s why you should believe in, and doubt, both teams’ chances to cash in the biggest betting event of the year. ...