Emeril Lagasse toasts Mario Batali during the Lagasse Foundation’s 5th anniversary “Carnivale du Vin" at The Venetian and The Palazzo on Saturday. A crowd of 700 guests gathered for an evening of food, wine and music for children’s causes. Batali was recognized as the 2009 Carnivale du Vin honoree. Other attendees included Daniel Boulud, Wolfgang Puck, and Charlie Trotter. (Courtesy photo)
The exodus of Palestinians from Rafah accelerated Sunday as Israeli forces pushed deeper into the southern Gaza city.
A seventh grade Jewish student at Roosevelt Middle School in San Francisco grew accustomed to seeing her classmates display their support for Palestinians.
A tiny contingent of Duke University graduates opposed pro-Israel comedian Jerry Seinfeld speaking at their commencement with about 30 students chanting “free Palestine” amid a mix of boos and cheers.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s message to Netanyahu about Gaza.
Plans to turn Yucca Mountain into the nation’s nuclear waste repository have long received opposition from both sides of the aisle. But, is that changing?
Farmers have shown overwhelming interest in getting paid to retire rights to pump groundwater in rural Nevada. Could a state-run program save the water below us?
Debates and protests sparked by Israel’s war in the Gaza Strip have worked their way into seemingly every corner in the world — even the free-spirited desert festival in Nevada known as Burning Man.
Swiss singer Nemo won the 68th Eurovision Song Contest Saturday night
Ilya Tarshansky, a survivor of the Oct. 7 surprise Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel, spoke to an audience of about 100 people at the Folsom Community Center on Thursday.
A European naval force detained six suspected pirates on Friday after they opened fire on an oil tanker traveling through the Gulf of Aden, officials said.
