The Trump administration is energizing its campaign to counter China’s growing global influence as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo heads to Europe this week on a four-nation trip that will also highlight disputes with Russia over Venezuela and elsewhere as well as deep U.S. isolation on the cause and impact of climate change.
President Donald Trump turned up the pressure on China on Sunday, threatening to hike tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods.
A concentrated effort in Congress to address the growing national stockpile of nuclear waste is underway and Nevada is bracing for a wave of new legislation and efforts to bury radioactive materials in the desert north of Las Vegas.
Search and recovery personnel found the body of another worker Sunday in the rubble of a northern Illinois silicone plant that exploded and burst into flames two days ago, bringing the death toll to three employees with one more body believed to be in the debris, a fire official said.
Gaza militants fired hundreds of rockets into southern Israel on Sunday, killing at least four Israelis and bringing life to a standstill across the region in the bloodiest fighting since a 2014 war.
Bettors who wagered on Maximum Security in the Kentucky Derby only to see the colt get disqualified for interference will receive refunds.
A man is dead after a motorcycle-car crash Sunday morning in the southeast valley, according to Las Vegas police.
A stretch of road in Los Angeles has been renamed after former President Barack Obama.
A passenger shouted “Watch out! Watch out!” as other passengers and crew members cautiously walked out on a wing of the Boeing 737, just moments after it had landed at a Florida military base, crashed through a stone seawall, and ended up in a river.
Diana Ross says she feels “violated” by an airport screener who touched her between her legs after she performed at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.
Russian officials have given out conflicting numbers on a fiery airline accident at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport, but they indicate at least 40 people died.
The worst toll evader in Pennsylvania is being ordered to pay up.
Venezuelan authorities are investigating the cause of a helicopter crash that killed seven military officers while they were while heading to a state where President Nicolás Maduro was visiting troops.
A perennially challenged Atlantic City casino will finally turn a profit this month and chart the way forward under the ownership of a New York hedge fund.
A Walmart heir, a wealthy governor and energy companies profiting from North Dakota oil could fund a big chunk of the private money needed by developers of a presidential library for Theodore Roosevelt in the western Badlands where he hunted and ranched before becoming the 26th U.S. president.
“Avengers: Endgame” has crossed the $2 billion mark at the global box office in record time and is leaving newcomers in its dust.
President Donald Trump is tapping a former border patrol chief who served in the Obama administration to lead Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
President Donald Trump said Sunday that special counsel Robert Mueller should not testify before Congress, abandoning his previous declaration that he would leave that decision to his attorney general.
Clear skies early in the week in the Las Vegas Valley should give way to possible storms, according to the National Weather Service.
Maximum Security co-owner Gary West criticized race stewards’ disqualification of his horse’s KentuckyDerby victory as “egregious” and said he was pondering his next step, including a possible appeal.
Facing one of the worst affordable housing shortages in the country, Nevada lawmakers are hoping the 2019 Legislature can mark a turning point.
Center for Biological Diversity says it will seek federal endangered species protection for the white-margined beardtongue in an effort to block Clark County plan to open roughly 40,000 acres of federal land to development.
The Las Vegas Science and Technology Festival capped more than a week of educational events with its Giant Science and Technology Expo.
You’re not beating the A side — especially when it’s Saúl Canelo Alvarez — by taking off the middle rounds of a mega-middleweight fight that unified three championship belts in the division, but that’s what Jacobs did and he rightly paid for it.
Red Bull KTM rider Cooper Webb clinched his first AMA Supercross title by finishing ?? in Saturday’s 450 class main event in front of a sellout crowd at Sam Boyd Stadium.
Jose Marmolejos singled home the go-ahead run in the seventh inning Saturday night as the Fresno Grizzlies handed the Aviators their ninth loss in 11 Pacific Coast League games with a 10-7 victory at Las Vegas Ballpark.
UNLV freshman Connie Li rebounded from a 6-3 tiebreaker deficit to win 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 (7) in the decisive match, lifting the Rebels past Texas Tech 4-3 in the first round of an NCAA women’s tennis regional Saturday in Los Angeles.
Justin Bourke, 17, and India McCarty, 16, were last seen about 10:30 p.m. Wednesday in the area of North Rampart and West Lake Mead boulevards, according to a Metropolitan Police Department flyer.
Saul “Canelo” Alvarez scored a unanimous decision victory over Daniel Jacobs to unify the world middleweight boxing titles Saturday night at T-Mobile Arena.
