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Residents of the New Mexico village of Tularosa have long said those living near the site of the world's first atomic bomb test in 1945 weren't told about the dangers or compensated for their resulting health problems. Since then, they say, descendants have been plagued with cancer and other illnesses while the federal government ignored ...

Las Vegas casino mogul and Republican financier Sheldon Adelson will dine with President Trump on Thursday night at the White House, according to ...

Here’s the latest installment of the Play of the Day, which uses odds from the South Point. Our three sports writers started with ...

The White House has "counseled" a top aide to President Donald Trump after she promoted Ivanka Trump's fashion line during a national cable television appearance from the White House. But House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz says ...

Metro Police have arrested a man in the shooting death of a woman in the northeast valley last month. Lun Simon, 43, turned himself in Wednesday at business in ...

Tightrope walker Nik Wallenda promised Thursday that his show would go on, despite a high-wire accident that sent five performers tumbling 30 feet to the ground. Wallenda said doctors told him it's a miracle the five performers escaped more serious injuries. During a news conference ...

A report released Thursday estimates more than 2.5 million immigrants in the country illegally live in the metropolitan areas of New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, which have pledged to fight President Trump's plans to expand deportations. The study by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center provides a glimpse of where immigrants in the country illegally reside and ...

Metro Police said they temporarily evacuated neighboring homes and closed roads as they investigated reports of a male with a gun threatening family members in the northwest valley. A family disturbance was reported about 9 a.m. at ...

Bob Costas is stepping down from his role as prime-time host of NBC's Olympics coverage, where he will be replaced next winter in South Korea by Mike Tirico. Costas has been the on-air concierge to NBC's Olympics 11 times, starting in 1992. He warmed up as the ...

The driver of a car died this morning after being rear-ended while stopped at an intersection in the far northwest valley, according to the Nevada Highway Patrol. The crash happened about ...

Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions has been sworn in as President Donald Trump's attorney general. During an Oval Office ceremony, Trump called Sessions a man of integrity and principal, and someone who has devoted his ...

A powerful, fast-moving storm swept into the Northeast on Thursday with the potential for more than a foot of snow along the heavily populated Philadelphia-to-Boston corridor, making for a slippery commute and giving millions of people weather whiplash a day after ...

Construction of the Dakota Access pipeline under a North Dakota reservoir has begun and the full pipeline should be operational within three months, the developer of the long-delayed project said Thursday, even as an American Indian tribe filed a legal challenge to ...

The White House is rushing to the defense of Ivanka Trump's company — the latest sign the president can't seem to separate the ...

It’s a simple formula for Las Vegas: Fewer visitors to the area mean fewer gamblers and shoppers, which means fewer dollars not coming into the local economy. It has been more ....

In effect, Trump took a real problem, inflated it with hysteria, handled it with incompetence and created an unjust policy that targets seven mostly impoverished Muslim countries that haven’t produced a single person involved in a lethal terrorist attack in America since before 9/11. Islamophobia swirls through the order, and Rudy Giuliani has helpfully explained that Trump asked him to devise a way to create a Muslim ban and “do it legally.” ...

I strongly believe the solution to our immigration issues is to find a pathway to citizenship for those in our country who came here for the same reasons many of our ...

No one likes to think about dying — and that is probably one reason most Americans lack wills ...

Anderson Silva strode onto the stage toward his opponent, extended his hand and went for the hearty shake. He flashed a wide smile and threw his arm around Derek Brunson ...

Despite being more of a facilitator, Tyrell is currently in the top 10 in scoring in the valley with 14.4 points per game. She was named team captain last season in her first year on varsity as ...

Today, U.S. surface ships and submarines alone could deliver dozens of cruise missiles, and each of up to 10 B-2 bombers could carry two Massive Ordnance Penetrators to destroy underground leadership or missile bunkers. But as soon as Kim has one or more ICBMs (probably road-mobile) capable of delivering, on short notice, a nuclear payload to, say, Santa Monica, pre-emptive U.S. action, even just against his nuclear infrastructure, might be too risky. ...

Well, at least Trump didn’t threaten to invade Australia. In his conversation with President Enrique Peña Nieto of Mexico, however, he did just that. According to The Associated Press, he told our neighbor’s democratically elected leader, “You have a bunch of bad hombres down there. You aren’t doing enough to stop them. I think your military is scared. Our military isn’t, so I just might send them down to take care of it.” ...

The Trump White House would like to pretend that this is politics as usual, but it’s not. The American people — many of whom are now protesting Trump’s actions throughout the country — are asking whether the new president will ignore the Constitution’s limits on his power. Despite these looming constitutional crises, Republicans have shown they will not act as a check on the executive branch. With Congress marching to Trump’s orders, the Supreme Court will be crucial to reining in the new president. Читать дальше...

Belgium's prime minister says NATO heads of state and government will meet with U.S. President Donald Trump for the first time in May ...

Chancellor Angela Merkel hopes for progress on deporting more rejected asylum-seekers as she meets with governors of Germany's 16 states Thursday ...