Two oil tankers near the strategic Strait of Hormuz were attacked on Thursday, an assault that left one ablaze and adrift as sailors were evacuated from both vessels and the U.S. Navy rushed to assist amid heightened tensions between Washington and Tehran.
President Trump welcomed Polish President Andrzej Duda to the White House, where he announced the United States will send another 1,000 troops to Poland. President Duda will visit Reno this weekend.
Governor Steve Sisolak signed a bill to raise the minimum wage to $12 per hour by 2024, as well as bills aimed at fair pay for women and one to ensure all workers at companies with 50 or more employees get a week’s paid sick leave each year.
A man walked into a Jack in the Box in suburban Alhambra on Monday and shot Solano in the head as he was waiting for his food order, authorities said.
Defying Republican promises of a lawsuit, Gov. Steve Sisolak signed a bill that extends a business payroll tax to pay for education and social services.
Clark County School District secondary principals passed the no confidence vote after the superintendent announced he would eliminate dean positions.
Officers were called about 3:40 p.m. to the intersection of Eastern Avenue and Rochelle Avenue, just south of Flamingo Road, after a report that a woman on a bicycle was struck by a car, Metropolitan Police Department Lt. Ken Romane said.
Some carcasses had lost hair, and NOAA Fisheries will try to determine if that was due to decomposition or abnormal molting.
Dallas police homicide Maj. Max Geron says Kendrell Lavar Lyles was arrested June 5 based on tips linking him to two homicides.
The paltry turnout underscores the challenge of engaging voters to participate in contests during odd-numbered years, with no state or federal races driving them to the polls.
The Army’s War Relocation Authority held about 120,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans in “relocation centers” during the war with Japan.
Democrats in Congress continued to highlight damaging material in special counsel Robert Mueller’s report in committee hearings Wednesday.
Oregon was the first state to legalize such assistance, in 1997, and it took over a decade for the next state, Washington, to follow suit.
Former White House Communications Director Hope Hicks has agreed to a closed-door interview with the House Judiciary Committee, the panel announced Wednesday.
He appeared in response to a subpoena from the panel’s Republican chairman as part of the committee’s investigation into Russian interference.
