If the squabbling ever stops over Elon Musk’s renewed bid to buy Twitter, experts say he still faces a huge obstacle to closing the $44 billion deal: Keeping …
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K-pop group BTS members face possible military conscription
South Korea’s military appears to want to conscript members of the K-pop supergroup BTS for mandatory military duties, as the public remains sharply divided over whether they should be given exemptions. Lee Ki Sik, commissioner of the Military Manpowe…
Michael Flynn’s ReAwaken roadshow recruits ‘Army of God’
By the time the red, white and blue-colored microphone had been switched off, the crowd of 3,000 had listened to hours of invective and grievance. “We’re under warfare,” one speaker told them. Another said she …
Ukraine city takes more hits as apartment attack deaths rise
The death toll from a missile attack on apartment buildings in a southern Ukrainian city rose to 11 as more Russian missiles and — for the first time — explosive packed drones targeted …
Thais mourn dozens, mainly kids, killed in day care attack
Relatives wailed and collapsed in grief before the small coffins of children Friday after a fired police officer stormed a rural Thai day care center at …
Nobel Peace Prize to activists from Belarus, Russia, Ukraine
Human rights activists from Ukraine, Belarus and Russia won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, a strong rebuke to Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose invasion of Ukraine has ruptured decades of nearly uninterrupted peace in Europe, and to the …
Biden: Nuclear ‘Armageddon’ risk highest since ’62 crisis
President Joe Biden is declaring that the risk of nuclear “Armageddon” is at the highest level since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, as Russian officials speak of using tactical nuclear weapons after …
Another month of solid U.S. hiring suggests more big Fed hikes
America’s employers slowed their hiring in September but still added 263,000 jobs, a solid figure that will likely keep the Federal Reserve on pace to keep raising interest rates aggressively to …
Rod Woodson returns to the gridiron as Las Vegas XFL football team’s head coach
Legendary NFL defensive back Rod Woodson moved to Las Vegas three years ago thinking his seven-year run coaching professional football had ended. That all changed late last year when he got a call from several executives from the reformed XFL.
The Sahara marries new experiences and past successes as it turns 70 on the Las Vegas Strip
This storied property has evolved through the years, but the current and future face of the Sahara takes a modern approach centered around service, with whispers of a bygone but celebrated era of classic Las Vegas.