Wall Street joined in a worldwide cascade of despair today over the financial crisis, driving the Dow Jones industrials to their biggest loss ever during a trading day. Even a big afternoon rally failed to keep the Dow from its first close below 10,000 since 2004.
U.S. airlines canceled more than 2,700 flights on Sunday as Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy warned that air traffic would “slow to a trickle” if the government shutdown lingered.
Typhoon Fung-wong blew out of the northwestern Philippines on Monday after setting off floods and landslides, knocking out power, killing at least two people and displacing more than 1.4 million.
A group of moderate Democrats has a tentative deal to reopen the government if Republicans promise to hold a vote on expiring health care subsidies by December, a potential breakthrough as lawmakers seek to end the shutdown.
Paul Tagliabue, who helped bring labor peace to the NFL during his 17 years as commissioner but was criticized for not taking stronger action on concussions, died Sunday from heart failure.
Air traffic in the could “slow to a trickle” if the federal government shutdown lingers into the busy Thanksgiving travel holiday season, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy warned Sunday.
A 65-year-old man slipped and fell to his death in the Guano Point area of the Hualapai Reservation near Grand Canyon West in Arizona on Thursday, according to the Mohave County Sheriff’s Office.
The woman’s ex-boyfriend shot at her vehicle on Boulder Highway near Galleria Drive on March 8, hitting the boy in the leg, her attorney said.
Assemblyman Reuben D’Silva, a Democrat who represents a district that includes parts of Las Vegas and North Las Vegas, said lawmakers have been told a special session could start Thursday.
According to FlightAware, an online flight-tracking service, over 20 flights had been canceled, and 130 flights have experienced delays at Harry Reid International Airport
Nevada has found itself in a unique position of being the only state with two Democratic senators who have split votes on a funding bill.
