Cambridge Analytica, the Trump-affiliated data firm at the center of Facebook’s worst privacy scandal in history, is declaring bankruptcy and shutting down.
Las Vegas moved one step closer Wednesday to getting its own art museum, slated to be built just east of the Smith Center for the Performing Arts.
Technical director Jose Luis Sanchez Sola and coach Isidro Sanchez were both suspended by the United Soccer League for Monday’s game at Real Monarchs SLC and any additional punishment will be announced this week.
The union representing thousands of housekeepers in Las Vegas on Wednesday said Caesars Entertainment has rejected a proposal to include language in a new contract that would protect workers if a “Do Not Disturb” sign has been hanging on a doorknob for more than 24 hours.
A former member of the Nevada Athletic Commission has been appointed to the Nevada Gaming Commission.
The McCaw School of Mines welcomed its 100,000th visitor on April 30, but the educational attraction in Henderson has its sights set on even bigger treasure.
Taste of the Town readers clearly like their Italian sausage , and they have a number of suggestions for Betty Davis, who’s looking for an exceptional version, like she used to get at Montesano’s.
Sprouts Farmers Market will open its new store near the intersection of North Decatur Boulevard and the 215 Beltway in August.
The first death has been reported in a national food poisoning outbreak linked to romaine lettuce.
Republican legislators sent Iowa’s governor a bill early Wednesday that would ban most abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected, usually around six weeks of pregnancy, propelling the state overnight to the front of a push among conservative statehouses jockeying to enact the nation’s most-restrictive regulations on the procedure.
Las Vegas police released body camera footage on Wednesday that depicts the moment officers breached the Oct. 1 gunman’s Mandalay Bay suite.
Tacos will be frying and tequila flowing all over Southern Nevada on Saturday — Cinco de Mayo — and here are five sure bets for your celebration.
LAKE MEAD — Anglers are finding shad early in the morning and using the bait fish to catch striped bass. Coves around Government Wash have been producing quality fish, including largemouth, smallmouth and striped bass. In addition to live shad, various lures and reactions baits have caught fish. Catfish are biting anchovies at night right below the shelves.
The Las Vegas Bowl will be Saturday, Dec. 15 at 12:30 p.m. and will be televised on ABC. It’s the seventh consecutive year the game, which will be at Sam Boyd Stadium, will be on a Saturday and the sixth year in a row on ABC.
The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas is calling it an “urban market,” although it sounds a lot like a high-end food court. Either way, Block 16 Urban Eatery & Bar will bring six dining concepts from across the country together this fall. The collection on the second floor of the resort’s Boulevard Tower will feature Lardo and Pok Pok Wing from Portland, New Orleans’ District: Donuts. Sliders. Brew, a local outpost of New York’s Ghost Donkey tequila and mezcal bar, Hattie B’s Hot Chicken from Nashville and the locally conceived Tekka Bar: Handroll & Sake.
Sam Fox’s collection of almost 50 restaurants covers 14 concepts and spans 6 states, but he finds himself dining at one of them an average of three times a week: Flower Child, which opens in Las Vegas on Wednesday. Flower Child is dedicated to healthy eating, with a mission “to revitalize body, mind and soul.” With an emphasis on fresh vegetables, fruits and lean proteins, it’s clear how it may benefit the body, but as for the mind and soul? Fox says that revitalization comes through the restaurant’s vibe, which he said is “very casual, fun, energetic.” Besides, he says, “When you eat healthy, you feel better mentally and physically.”
Reasearchers announced Wednesday that the Kilopower fission reactor performed better than expected during a 28-hour, full-power test completed on March 21 inside a vacuum chamber at the Nevada National Security Site.
Need help handicapping the 20-horse field in Saturday’s 144th running of the Kentucky Derby?
Thousands of foodies will descend on Las Vegas on Mother’s Day weekend for Vegas Uncork’d, a collection of 27 high-profile dining events where guests will pay big bucks to rub elbows with celebrity chefs such as Gordon Ramsay, Giada De Laurentiis and Nobu Matsuhisa.
United Airlines plans to resume shipping pets as cargo in July but will ban animals such as snub-nosed dogs that face bigger health risks during flights.
Spencer Gallagher was on top of the world Saturday after winning his first NASCAR Xfinity Series race. On Wednesday, the 28-year-old Las Vegan was suspended from NASCAR for violating its substance abuse policy.
White House lawyer Ty Cobb will retire at the end of the month, the White House said Wednesday, further shaking up President Donald Trump’s legal team as the president intensifies his attacks on the special counsel’s Russia investigation.
Two black men arrested for sitting at a Philadelphia Starbucks without ordering anything settled with the city for a symbolic $1 each Wednesday and a promise from officials to set up a $200,000 program for young entrepreneurs.
A crew of nine Puerto Ricans were flying an Air National Guard C-130 into retirement in Arizona when it crashed onto a highway in Georgia on Wednesday, and authorities said there appeared to be no survivors.
A Southwest Airlines plane flying from Chicago to New Jersey was forced to land in Cleveland on Wednesday after one of its windows cracked.
A family spokesman says former President George H.W. Bush will remain hospitalized at least another day, but that doctors “are very pleased with his progress.”
Wednesday’s headlines: Botched robbery attempt leaves a man dead, officer breaching Oct. 1 gunman’s Mandalay Bay suite did not activate body camera, and a wanted man has been arrested.
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