The Strip is about to get a high-digit number on a high-tech billboard. The only problem: It’s not a big slot-machine payout. It’s the national debt.
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Gunmaker Colt says it is suspending its production of rifles for the civilian market including the popular AR-15.
President Donald Trump continued his legal fight against making his tax returns public with filings Thursday in New York and California.
House Democrats unveiled a bill to control the costs of prescription drugs, but Republicans criticized it as the first step in nationalizing the pharmaceutical industry.
President Donald Trump is pouring cold water on prospects for a bipartisan compromise on gun legislation, even as his aides circulate a draft plan on Capitol Hill.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his chief rival, Benny Gantz, on Thursday each called for the formation of a unity government following Israel’s inconclusive national election. But with both men demanding to be prime minister, there were no signs they could break the deadlock.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s campaign moved to contain a growing furor Thursday after a yearbook photo surfaced of him in brownface at a 2001 “Arabian Nights” costume party and two other similar incidents came to light.
President Donald Trump’s director of national intelligence is refusing to turn over to Congress an urgent whistleblower complaint that reportedly concerns Trump making an unspecified promise to a foreign leader, the chairman of the House intelligence committee said Thursday.
The remnants of Tropical Depression Imelda unleashed torrential rain Thursday in parts of Texas, prompting hundreds of water rescues, a hospital evacuation and road closures as the powerful storm system drew comparisons to Hurricane Harvey two years ago.
A powerful suicide truck bomb devastated a hospital in southern Afghanistan early Thursday morning, killing 20 people and wounding 97 others, according to the province’s governor, while a deadly drone strike in the country’s east was blamed on U.S. forces.
Iran’s foreign minister warned Thursday that any attack on his country over a drone-and-missile strike on Saudi Arabia’s oil industry will result in “all-out war,” further pushing up tensions across the Persian Gulf.
A public service announcement released Wednesday by Sandy Hook Advocacy is purposefully grim and shocking.
Threats to the Paiute cutthroat trout included overfishing, disease, interbreeding and competition with non-native trout.
The prime minister, who champions diversity and multiculturalism, said he didn’t consider it racist at the time but said we all know better now.
Just 73 orcas remain in the Pacific Northwest population, the lowest number in more than three decades.
