ATLANTA -- Shocking as it may seem, U.S. government doctors once thought it was fine to experiment on disabled people and prison inmates. Such experiments included giving hepatitis to mental patients in Connecticut, squirting a pandemic flu virus up the noses of prisoners in Maryland, and injecting cancer cells into chronically ill people at a New York hospital.
Mayor Shelley Berkley paused Wednesday’s City Council meeting for a moment of silence to honor two parents that police have said were beaten to death by their son.
Las Vegas planning commissioner Stephen Munford resigns under pressure a day before a City Council vote on his removal after a request from Councilwoman Shondra Summers-Armstrong.
Carrie Cox alluded that she, Councilwoman Monica Larson and others were offered payments from people who had pending business before the City Council, according to an interview transcript.
The Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul have been on edge since DHS announced Tuesday that it had launched the operation.
Mickey Rourke alleged in a video posted on Instagram that he didn’t know who set up a GoFundMe campaign on his behalf over the weekend.
Michele Fiore is officially seeking re-election to her Pahrump justice of the peace seat.
The plan would help pay for 911 infrastructure improvements. Officials said the region’s analog 911 system is long overdue for modernization.
The complaint claims a downtown casino and railroad company’s failure to repair a hole in a fence allowed a California man to crawl through and be hit by a train.
Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok is facing a backlash from governments around the world after a recent surge in sexualized images of women and children generated without consent by the artificial intelligence-powered tool.
Nvidia, AMD and Intel all had important chip and AI platform announcements on the first day of CES 2026, but all audiences wanted to see more of was Star Wars and Jensen Huang’s little robot buddies.
