A deal within reach, President Joe Biden and Congress’ top Democrats edged close to sealing their giant domestic legislation, though the informal deadline appeared to slip as they worked to scale back the measure and determine how to pay for it.
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Golden Knights preaching progress, not panic, after loss to Oilers
It’s too early in the Golden Knights’ season to panic. Two weeks ago we were still watching preseason games, after all. Vegas is missing three of its scoring forwards and its top defensive pair at this early juncture of the season, and the absences ar…
Adventuredome to debut new kids attraction on Halloween
A new ride coming to a resort on the Las Vegas Strip is debuting just in time for Halloween.
Adventuredome to debut new kids attraction on Halloween
A new ride coming to a resort on the Las Vegas Strip is debuting just in time for Halloween.
Golden Knights focused on recouping defensive prowess vs. Oilers
Entering the season, the Golden Knights were the betting favorite to win the NHL’s Pacific Division. Not far behind was tonight’s opponent, the Oilers. So with Vegas struggling and Edmonton surging …
Baldwin was told gun was ‘cold’ before movie set shooting
As a film crew and actors in Western garb prepared to rehearse a scene inside a wooden, chapel-like building on a desert movie ranch outside Santa Fe, assistant director Dave Halls stepped outside and grabbed a prop gun off a cart.
Congressional leaders ask NFL for documents from probe involving Gruden
Two members of Congress have asked the NFL for documents related to the league’s investigation of widespread harassment and misconduct …
Alec Baldwin fired shot on movie set that killed woman, authorities say
Alec Baldwin discharged a prop firearm on the set of a Western he was making in New Mexico on Thursday, killing the film’s director of photography and wounding the movie’s director, the authorities said.
It will take more than rain to end drought in Western U.S.
Californians rejoiced this week when big drops of water started falling from the sky for the first time in any measurable way since the spring, an annual soaking that heralds the start of the rainy season following some of the hottest and driest month…
COVID vaccine: CDC expands booster rollout, OKs mixing shots
Millions more Americans can get a COVID-19 booster and choose a different company’s vaccine for that next shot, federal health officials said Thursday.