Myanmar military television said Monday that the military was taking control of the country for one year, while reports said many of the country’s senior politicians including Aung San Suu Kyi had been detained.
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After days of frigid temperatures, the Northeast braced for a whopper of a storm that could dump well over a foot of snow in many areas, create blizzard-like conditions and cause travel problems for the next few days.
The United States urged Russia to release Alexei Navalny and criticized the crackdown on protests.
Projections from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation show Lake Mead is in danger of dropping low enough to trigger its first federally declared water shortage next year.
At least two people were killed after a winter storm that flooded areas and buried the Sierra Nevada in snow, authorities said.
To target the socioeconomically disadvantaged community, public health officials used a senior center membership roster to fill appointments at the “pop-up” immunization site.
House Democrats moved Friday to expel a freshman Republican who has called recent mass shootings — including the Oct. 1 tragedy — fake events that are part of a government plot to confiscate guns.
Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene stirred more controversy with a social media post claiming the Las Vegas mass shooting may have been part of a plot to get Republicans to give up their guns.
New highly-contagious coronavirus variants have intensified concerns about spread across the U.S. One strain was reported in Nevada this week.
Nevada’s 2021 Legislature is set to begin Monday, with mostly virtual sessions because of the coronavirus.
Evacuations were ordered Thursday in wildfire burn areas prone to mudslides as an atmospheric river storm pumped drenching rain into Southern California while blizzard conditions buried the Sierra Nevada in snow.
The names of Abraham Lincoln, George Washington and other prominent figures including California Sen. Dianne Feinstein will be removed from 44 San Francisco public schools, a move that stirred debate Wednesday on whether the famously liberal city has taken the national reckoning on America’s racist past too far.
People seeking a coronavirus vaccine may have to wait for months to get it, according to an adviser to the White House COVID-19 response task force.
He could be found on social media timelines taking a seat on the subway, the moon and the couch with the cast of “Friends,” among other creative locales.
While the state has made progress in gun violence legislation, the authors note Nevada’s gun death rate and gun suicide rate remain 40 and 60 percent higher than the national average.
The new briefings, beginning just a week into the president’s tenure, are meant as an explicit rejection of his predecessor’s approach to the coronavirus outbreak.
“If it doesn’t get fixed, it’s going to get worse,” said Rep. Mark Amodei, R-Nev., who blamed a cumbersome bureaucratic process for creating a delay in delivery of vaccines.
The 55-45 procedural vote to set aside an objection from Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul puts the Senate on record as declaring the proceedings constitutional.
Gov. Steve Sisolak has asked the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for more vaccine, with local and federal officials echoing the call.
The DMV is running at a 50 percent no-show rate, with half of customers who make an appointment in Las Vegas and Reno area offices aren’t showing up for their appointments.