Новости за 06.07.2015

More than 1 million people filled a park in Ecuador's main port city on Monday for Pope Francis' first big event of his three-nation South American tour, hoping for a glimpse of Latin America's first pope returning to his home soil for a Mass dedicated to the family. Many pilgrims spent the night outdoors, and some ...

The touring group of dancers features six mirror-ball champs, including Rumer Willis’ Season 20 partner, Val Chmerkovskiy. Chmerkovskiy, never shy to take off his shirt to show off his muscular body, spent most of the nearly 2-hour show topless as expected.

Former Nevada congressional candidate Dr. Annette Teijeiro says she's planning on running for an open Las Vegas congressional seat. Teijeiro said she'll run in the Republican primary for ...

The depth of support for bringing down the Confederate flag gets its first test in the South Carolina Legislature this week as lawmakers return to Columbia to come up with a specific plan. The General Assembly returns Monday to discuss Gov. Nikki Haley's budget vetoes and what to do with ...

A pregnant woman struck by a car near the Circus Circus last month has died, while the death of her newborn baby has been ruled an accident. The Clark County Coroner's Office said ...

Police say a man was critically hurt in a fall at a Grateful Dead concert at Chicago's Soldier Field. Chicago Police Department spokesman Officer Hector Alfaro says police were called ...

Police say they are checking on a report of a single shot fired at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center outside Washington. Montgomery County police spokeswoman Natasha Plotnikov says a 911 caller reported ...

Authorities say a 7-year-old boy who was celebrating the Fourth of July with his family was among three people who were shot and killed overnight in Chicago. Police say the child, Amari Brown, was shot after someone opened fire just before ...

A 79-year-old driver may have had a medical episode before a car crashed into a house Sunday night, injuring a 12-year-old girl who was sleeping in a bedroom, Metro Police said. The man, identified by the ...

Republican Rep. Joe Heck is entering the race for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Nevada Democrat Harry Reid, setting in motion what could be one of the top Senate races of 2016. Heck made the announcement ...

Carli Lloyd lives for the big moment. She had her biggest on Sunday night — and gave the United States its record third Women's World Cup title. Lloyd scored three times as the U.S. jumped to a four-goal lead in the first 16 minutes, and the Americans overwhelmed ...

U.S. stocks are edging lower after Greeks reject the terms of the country's latest bailout. European markets had bigger losses Monday, but not as bad as ...

Batteries Plus Bulbs provides local consumers and businesses access to more than 50,000 types of batteries, light bulbs and accessories ranging from the common to the obscure ...

Though the unions say they remain undecided about whether to pursue a minimum wage initiative, state Sen. Tick Segerblom, who sponsored the state constitutional amendment to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour, said he wouldn’t be surprised if an initiative appeared on the ballot. “That’s one of the questions: Do you move it up $1 or $2 ...

Nevada is an important state for 2016 presidential candidates, and the casino lobby is trying to make sure its industry is considered important too. If presidential candidates aren’t favorable to casinos, the millions of workers supported by the industry will know it, and that could influence their vote ...

In 1824, in retirement 37 years after serving as the Constitutional Convention’s prime mover, James Madison, 73, noted that the 1787 “language of our Constitution is already undergoing interpretations unknown to its founders.” He knew that the purport of the text would evolve “with the changeable meaning of the words composing it.”

Donnacha O’Dea stood center stage in front of the entire Day 1A starting field of the World Series of Poker Main Event to help commence the game’s world championship. The turnout Sunday afternoon at the Rio was sparse for the $10,000 buy-in tournament’s standards, but still at least 10 times larger than the 104 total entrants when O’Dea debuted in the event. ...

One of the most ironic things about U.S. presidents is how soon after they get comfortable with the job that it’s over.

Micah Bowens has always been one of the youngest players in his class, but that's about to change. His parents decided to hold him back one year so he will repeat eighth grade in order to put him in a better position to earn a scholarship to his dream school, Stanford. His father said, “He’s just 13. Did we want him to go to college as a 17-year-old?”

Floyd Mayweather Jr. claimed the WBO welterweight title with a unanimous decision victory against Manny Pacquiao, but the Puerto Rico-based organization is poised to withdraw its recognition of Mayweather as its 147-pound titleholder after he failed to comply with a deadline Friday to pay his $200,000 sanctioning ...

Officials are looking for a man who was last seen jumping into Lake Mead.

One of my favorite yarns about how Las Vegas used to be was unspooled most unexpectedly, one afternoon at Encore Theater on the Las Vegas Strip. And the revered sheriff Ralph Lamb, who died Friday at age 88, wound up at the center. It was in October 2009, and it started as an offhand comment from ...

The National Weather Service has issued a flood advisory for the northwest part of town as a storm makes it way through the valley. Most of the valley will experience light showers tonight and thunderstorms that will last ...