Pope Francis has blasted conservatives in the U.S. Catholic Church, saying they have replaced faith with ideology.
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The worst disruptions continued to be along the East Coast, which has been pummeled by thunderstorms.
Two federal advisory committee members say evidence doesnt support a need for four shots.
A 25-year-old Washoe County man is the nation’s first COVID-19 patient proven to have been reinfected by the new coronavirus, according to the Nevada State Public Health Laboratory in Reno.
U.S. health officials are expanding their checks of international travelers for signs of a worrisome new virus from China, even as they say the risk to Americans so far is very low.
The FDA in June legalized a drug called Epidiolex, which is used to treat epilepsy in children.
Days after Zion National Park announced it would stop issuing permits for a popular trail, the “top-down” hike through the Narrows will be reopened — at least for the rest of 2018.
Climbers on North America’s tallest mountain may have to start packing out more of their poop after a researcher determined a glacier in which much of it has been dumped over the past decade probably is not decomposing the human waste.
The nation’s political leaders bowed their heads for a solemn salute Wednesday to the Rev. Billy Graham in the soaring Capitol Rotunda, paying tribute to a man who ministered to presidents and other Americans of both parties.
Tim Freriks blazed from the North Rim to the South Rim at a blistering pace on Oct. 1, crossing the 21-mile chasm to claim what is called the “fastest known time.” There was no prize, only bragging rights to the unofficial record.
Clark County ranked in the top 20 U.S. counties for sexually transmitted diseases in 2016, while Nevada as a whole came in No. 2 in the nation for its rate of syphilis, according to new federal data released this week.
For the first time, the federal government is proposing cutting the nicotine level in cigarettes so they aren’t so addictive.
U.S. Homeland Security officials are announcing on Wednesday new enhanced security measures for flights arriving in the United States from around the world, but are not announcing an immediate expansion of an in-cabin ban on large electronic devices including laptops, sources briefed on the matter said Wednesday.
A man yelled “Freedom!” as he crashed his vehicle into Arkansas’ new Ten Commandments monument early Wednesday, nearly three years after he was arrested in the destruction of Oklahoma’s monument at its state Capitol, authorities said.
Pope Francis came to Egypt on Friday for a historic visit to the Arab and Muslim-majority nation aimed at presenting a united Christian-Muslim front to repudiate violence committed in God’s name.