Ex-Las Vegas student returns with 3 degrees to aid education

Zhan Okuda-Lim has been fighting for education since he was a Valley High School freshman. Now the Ivy League educated scholar is back in his hometown, working for the Public Education Foundation.

 
Starbucks closing stores for racial bias training on Tuesday

Starbucks, trying to put to rest an outcry over the arrest of two black men at one of its stores, is closing more than 8,000 stores for an afternoon of anti-bias training, a strategy some believe can keep racism at bay.

 
Sesame Street makers sue over R-rated puppet movie

The makers of “Sesame Street” are suing the promoter of a new Melissa McCarthy movie, saying it’s abusing the famed puppets’ sterling reputation to advertise the R-rated film.

Indiana teacher who stopped shooting praises wounded student

A teacher who was shot while tackling and disarming a student at an Indiana school said Monday that his swift decisions “were the only acceptable actions” to save his seventh-grade classroom.

Stabbing suspect in custody after standoff in east Las Vegas

A standoff in east Las Vegas ended about 4:30 a.m. after Las Vegas police and Metro SWAT negotiators worked into the early morning hours Monday trying to persuade a man to surrender after a stabbing.

 
Malian migrant offered French citizenship after saving baby

President Emmanuel Macron on Monday lauded as a hero a migrant from Mali who scaled an apartment building to save a child dangling from a balcony, and rewarded the young man’s bravery with an offer of French citizenship and a job as a firefighter.

 
Soldiers still haunted by forgotten bloody battle of WWII

The battle for the Aleutian island was one of the deadliest in the Pacific in terms of the percentage of troops killed. Nearly all the Japanese forces, estimated at about 2,500 soldiers, died with only 28 survivors. About 550 or so U.S. soldiers were killed.

 
Alberto downgraded to depression, scattering storms in South

Subtropical Storm Alberto lumbered ashore Monday on the U.S. Gulf Coast, pelting white sand beaches with blustery winds and stinging rain that kept the usual Memorial Day crowds away.

 
US team in North Korea trying to resurrect Trump-Kim talks

A U.S. team was in North Korea to plan a summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, according to President Donald Trump, raising expectations that the on-off-on meeting would indeed take place.

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