Monthly Archives: December 2021

Las Vegas-area health officials would like to see more kids vaccinated against the coronavirus as the omicron variant spreads. They would encourage the vaccine regardless of the new variant, but the threat of omicron has upped the concern because it a…

Jussie Smollett’s legal team Thursday will seek to dent the credibility of a star state witness who the day before testified about how he said the former “Empire” actor recruited him and his brother to stage a racist, homophobic attack on Smollett.

Major League Baseball plunged into its first work stoppage in a quarter-century when the sport’s collective bargaining agreement expired Wednesday night and owners immediately locked out players …

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Thursday that China’s pursuit of hypersonic weapons “increases tensions in the region” and vowed the U.S. would maintain its capability to deter potential threats posed by China.

The latest meeting on expanding the College Football Playoff wrapped up without a resolution Wednesday as the people involved agreed to keep talking.

The holly, jolly, best time of the year got a light-filled launch on Wednesday, when the towering Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center was officially turned on.

The parents of a teenager accused of killing four students at a Michigan school were summoned to discuss his behavior just a few hours before the violence, a sheriff said.

The Marine Corps demolition specialist was worried — about America, and about the civil war he feared would follow the presidential election.

The federal government could be heading for a temporary shutdown, with Republicans poised to stall a must-pass funding bill in their effort to force a debate in Congress on rolling back the Biden administration’s COVID-19 vaccine mandates for some wor…

Facing a three-goal deficit, the Golden Knights took a couple of penalties that renewed their comeback hopes. Unfortunately for them, it wasn’t enough. Down 4-1 to the Anaheim Ducks on Wednesday, Vegas scored a pair of short-handed goals …