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Tight security greets New Year’s revelers on Las Vegas Strip

Heavy doses of anxiety, security and elation greeted the imminent arrival of 2018 in Las Vegas. A crowd of 330,000 visitors was expected to fill the Strip and Fremont Street downtown, as a record contingent of law enforcement officers kept the peace. This year’s massive outdoor party unfolded in the shadow of the Oct. 1 mass shooting that left 58 people dead. Several people said they came to celebrate in spite of what happened three months ago Monday.

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Sports on TV in Las Vegas

Here’s today’s local and national sports schedule, including television and radio listings.

COMMENTARY: ‘Lived experience’: Is it right for you?

Every time some blowhard wants to identify as an expert and shut down all dissent, they appeal to their years of “lived experience.”

BYRON YORK: New York on the brink

Next year will bring the 25th anniversary of 9/11, and with it an irresistible angle for journalists and commentators.

EDITORIAL: When debate leads to death

Americans long ago decided to trade bullets for ballots. But this exchange isn’t the norm around the world — and isn’t inevitable here either.

LETTER: Liberals aren’t cheering Kirk’s killing

Victor Joecks’s Sept. 14 commentary on Charlie Kirk sadly embodies what is wrong with the headline “Why the left celebrates Kirk’s murder.”