Clark County added 423 new cases and 14 new deaths Friday, according to health district data. As of Friday the county reported 489,011 cases and 7,552 deaths.
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Economic sanctions are crippling Russia, but more needs to be done to curtail the military invasion and aggression in Ukraine, Roman Popadiuk says.
Israel’s prime minister returned from a surprise trip to Russia where he met President Vladimir Putin and discussed the war in Ukraine. Naftali Bennett flew to Moscow on Saturday, where he met the Russian leader for three hours. The trip was made “in coordination and with the blessing” of the Biden administration, according to Bennett’s office.
Those targeted by the new U.S. sanctions include Putin’s press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, and Alisher Burhanovich Usmanov, one of Russia’s wealthiest individuals and a close ally of Putin.
The bill, backed by casino industry groups, would raise the trigger for IRS reporting of winnings from $1,200 to $5,000.
The attack on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant unfolded as the invasion entered its second week and another round of talks between the two sides yielded a tentative agreement to set up safe corridors to evacuate citizens and deliver humanitarian aid.
“The Select Committee also has a good-faith basis for concluding that the President and members of his Campaign engaged in a criminal conspiracy to defraud the United States,” the committee wrote in a filing.
A Nevada PAC launched an effort last month to build support for an initiative that would force lawmakers to consider legally requiring doctors to notify parents when a minor plans to have an abortion.
Hawaii plans to lift its COVID-19 quarantine requirement for travelers this month, meaning that starting on March 26 those arriving from other places in the U.S. won’t have to show proof of vaccination or a negative test to avoid sequestering themselves for five days.
Authorities seized nearly $3 million worth of methamphetamine, hidden among a shipment of onions, during a tractor-trailer’s inspection at federal facility in San Diego, officials announced Friday.
The moon is about to get walloped by 3 tons of space junk, a punch that will carve out a crater that could fit several semitractor-trailers.
After seven days of Russian assault, the United Nations announced that 1 million people have fled Ukraine since the invasion, the swiftest exodus of refugees this century.
Los Angeles County is set to lift its indoor mask mandate this week as coronavirus case rates and hospitalizations plummet, the county’s top health official said Tuesday.
Drought-stricken California’s winter mountain snowpack is far below average after two historically dry months that reversed gains from storms late last year, officials said Tuesday as they urged the nation’s most populous state to conserve water.
A new internal state audit raps the Department of Corrections for overcharging prisoners on supplies and medical co-pays, high overtime costs during the pandemic, and lax oversight on how it assigns state-owned vehicles to staff.