Thousands of delayed COVID-19 vaccine doses were delivered to the Southern Nevada Health District on Monday, allowing the agency to resume administering first shots by midweek.
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Merrick Garland appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee and is widely expected to sail through his confirmation process with bipartisan support.
The updated numbers from the state Department of Health and Human Services brought statewide totals to 291,145 cases and 4,882 deaths.
In a significant defeat for former President Donald Trump, the Supreme Court on Monday declined to step in to halt the turnover of his tax records to a New York state prosecutor.
Boeing has recommended that airlines ground all 777s with the type of engine that blew apart after takeoff from Denver this weekend, and most carriers with the planes in their fleets said they would temporarily pull them from service.
Despite the rollout of vaccines since mid-December, a closely watched model from the University of Washington projects more than 589,000 dead by June 1.
The decision to rename McCarran International Airport to Harry Reid International Airport last week caught some residents off guard.
Much of the West is mired in drought, with New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada and Utah being among the hardest hit.
The first known deaths from the virus in the U.S. happened in early February 2020, both of them in Santa Clara County, California.
California’s death toll during the coronavirus pandemic remains alarmingly high, topping 49,000 this weekend, even as the rates of new infections and hospitalizations continue to plummet across the state.
Federal aviation regulators are ordering United Airlines to step up inspections of all Boeing 777s equipped with the type of engine that suffered a catastrophic failure over Denver on Saturday.
Nearly 230,000 customers across the South were still without power as of Sunday, according to PowerOutage.us, a website that tracks power outages.
The plane landed safely at Denver International Airport, and no one on board or on the ground was hurt, authorities said.
A skateboarding world champion is among five people prosecutors in Southern California have charged with organizing parties that were possible superspreader events amid the pandemic.
A suspect fatally shot two people at a gun store in a suburb of New Orleans on Saturday afternoon, and the shooter also died during gunfire as others engaged the suspect both inside and outside the outlet, authorities said.