Sage Steele will not appear on ESPN’s “SportsCenter” the remainder of this week and has been pulled from moderating an upcoming network event following comments she made on a recent podcast.
Monthly Archives: October 2021
Station Casinos gets green light to build southwest valley resort
Plans for a new Station Casinos resort in the southwest Las Vegas Valley were approved during a Clark County Commission zoning meeting Wednesday. The casino and hotel complex, called Durango, is planned for a plot of land near …
Fisk Jubilee Singers celebrate 150 years since first tour
The Fisk Jubilee Singers’ first tour wasn’t an immediate success, but their perseverance through financial hardship to find an audience took them around the world and kept their school afloat.
Judge orders Texas to suspend new law banning most abortions
A federal judge on Wednesday ordered Texas to suspend the most restrictive abortion law in the U.S., which since September has banned most abortions in …
Global Gaming Expo returns, masked and vaccinated, to Las Vegas
Casino industry leaders and vendors riding a resurgence of gambling following coronavirus closures are gathering in-person for an annual conference this week in Las Vegas …
Las Vegas conference shines light on immigration reform
Addressing this week’s National Immigrant Integration Conference in Las Vegas, Rulon Pete spoke about changing demographics. After all, most of everyone else’s ancestors were once immigrants at one point, said Pete, a member of the Las Vegas Paiute tr…
Woman plans to help fellow Rwandan amputees get prosthetics
She was orphaned during Rwanda’s genocide and lost much of one of her legs to childhood cancer, but Claudine Humure has dreams of giving back to her once war-torn homeland.
In budget turning point, Biden conceding smaller price tag
President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats’ push for a 10-year, $3.5 trillion package of social and environmental initiatives has reached a turning point …
Brother, can you spare a coin — a $1 trillion one?
Some politicians think they’ve found a silver bullet for the impasse over the debt limit, except the bullet is made of platinum: Mint a $1 trillion coin, token of all tokens, and use it to flood the treasury with cash and drive Republicans crazy.
Delay after alarm puts California spill response in question
Amplify Energy’s emergency response plan for a major oil spill like the one it’s now dealing with in coastal Southern California depended heavily on a quick shutdown of the San Pedro Bay Pipeline if its sensors picked up a sudden loss of pressure.