WASHINGTON - Sally Ride, the first American woman to fly in space, has died. She was 61.
NASA confirmed her death Monday afternoon and President Barack Obama called her a national hero.
Her office in San Diego said she died of pancreatic cancer.
Ride rode into space on the shuttle Challenger in 1983 when she was 32.
A New York Times/Siena College poll published Monday shows Donald Trump leading by 12 points in the Silver State.
Emory University held its undergraduate commencement at Gas South Arena Monday morning — breaking from the tradition of the ceremony at the quad at the school’s Druid Hills campus.
House Republicans are planning a floor vote this week on draft legislation that would seek to force the administration into continuing weapons transfers to Israel.
A controversial plan for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints temple proposed near Lone Mountain will come before the Las Vegas Planning Commission Tuesday evening.
The far-right Georgia congresswoman believes that results don’t matter as long as you fight for the sake of fighting. It has made her a cable news star.
Punxsutawney Phil’s offspring now have names that just might help the famed weather-forecasting groundhog to predict when spring will begin.
Out of the 17 counties in the Silver State, this one has the highest average voter participation rate.
Cohen provided jurors with an insider’s account of payments to silence women’s claims of sexual encounters with Trump, saying the payments were directed by Trump to fend off damage to his 2016 White House bid.
The United Nations now claims that “the fog of war” is to blame for a major overstatement of the number of Gazan children who have been killed in the war.
The National Park Service wants to know who damaged a 113-year-old salt tram tower at Death Valley National Park.
