Новости за 31.12.2015

An ex-con seeking to prove he was worthy of joining the Islamic State group planned to carry out a New Year's Eve attack at an upstate New York bar using a machete and knives provided by an FBI informant, federal authorities announced Thursday. Emanuel Lutchman, 25, of Rochester, was charged with ...

Facebook's making some of its users feel a lot older than they really are. The social network sent automated messages Thursday inviting some users to celebrate "46 years of friendship on Facebook" with one or more of their online friends. That's odd, since Facebook only started in 2004. And some people who got the message ...

Democratic presidential candidate Martin O'Malley failed to qualify for Ohio's primary ballot after falling short of the signatures needed to appear before the state's voters, a spokesman for the state's elections chief said Thursday. O'Malley needed 1,000 valid signatures ...

The U.S. stock market took investors for a wild ride in 2015, but in the end it was a trip to nowhere. Despite veering between record highs and the steepest dive in four years, the stock market is on track to end the year essentially flat. That means if you invested ...

A 72-year-old inmate convicted of sexual assault against a minor died Tuesday at the Northern Nevada Correctional Center. According to the Nevada Department of Corrections, Robert Veach ...

Haven’t committed to New Year’s Eve plans yet, and don’t want to spend hundreds of dollars on dinner and a show/nightclub? Here’s one last-minute option, as the Linq Promenade is offering three options to ring in 2016.

The largest container ship to visit the U.S. has passed under the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco en route to the Port of Oakland. The nearly quarter-mile-long megaship named the Benjamin Franklin set sail from China earlier this month with a stop in Los Angeles after Christmas. It cleared the famous ...

Heavy rains caused an industrial fire at the low-level radioactive waste disposal site near Beatty in October, the state Department of Public Safety said today. There were no injuries and ...

A fire at an apartment building this morning left 38 people without a home, according to Clark County Fire Department officials. Firefighters responded about 2 a.m. to the blaze at the ...

A man was stabbed this morning when he returned home to find an intruder inside his house in the northeast valley, according to Metro Police. The man walked ...

Fire engulfed a luxury building near the world's tallest skyscraper in Dubai on Thursday, where tens of thousands of people had gathered for a massive ...

A Clark County School District custodian accused of leaving bodily fluids on a teacher’s personal items at an elementary school pleaded guilty today in Las Vegas Justice Court to ...

Target's efforts to draw shoppers back into its stores are paying off. Take Annabel Bernardo, who once bought trendy clothes at Target but cut back after she felt it lost its fashion edge. Now, Bernardo, who lives in Rockville Center, Maryland, is back: "The store is looking ...

A Palestinian attacker was shot and killed Thursday after he rammed his car into a group of Israeli soldiers on patrol in the West Bank, the military said. One Israeli soldier was wounded in the attack. The army says the Palestinian driver barreled into the soldiers as ...

Arizona authorities say the highway that is the main route between Phoenix and Las Vegas has reopened after being closed near Kingman several hours ...

Authorities are investigating after a body was found along a highway near Mountain Springs. The body was found Wednesday along State Route 160 at mile marker 22. Nevada Highway Patrol Trooper Loy Hixson says ...

Bill Cosby's lawyer charged on Thursday that the sexual assault case against the comedian was politically motivated, brought by a newly elected district attorney to make good on a campaign pledge. "What we have is not the effectuation of justice. What we have is the ...

Belgian authorities on Thursday announced the arrest of a 10th person in connection with last month's bloodbath in Paris and said six others have been detained for questioning over a suspected plot to stage new attacks ...

In Bangkok, police-flanked partygoers will ring in the new year at the site of a deadly bombing that took place just months ago. In Paris, residents recovering from their city's own deadly attacks will enjoy scaled-back celebrations. And in Belgium's capital ...

The mother of a fugitive Texas teen known for using an "affluenza" defense in a fatal drunken-driving accident is jailed in Los Angeles on Thursday after being deported from Mexico, police said. An LAPD fugitive task force ...

Nobody — and nowhere — on Earth throws a bigger or better New Year’s Eve Weekend celebration than Las Vegas, and this year as we end the madness of 2015 and I hope welcome a sane 2016, our hometown reigns supreme in the 96-hour nonstop “Auld Lang Syne” sweepstakes.

White Castle, check. Chick-fil-A, in the works. And now, Cracker Barrel is reportedly on its way to the Las Vegas Valley. But while several chain restaurants either waded into Southern Nevada for the first time in 2015 or announced plans to do so, here are several more we'd like to see ...

In Las Vegas, food, landscape of restaurants and talent change as quickly as casinos update headlining acts. This year, I spent the better part of 2015 eating my way through greater Las Vegas becoming familiar with some of the best food I’ve ever tasted.

There’s a reason that CG Technologies releases point spreads on every NFL game except for Week 17 contests as part of its full-season lines revealed every spring ...

In his show "Failure is an Option," Strip performer Tom Rubin takes on a Tony Robbins-like persona to spoof motivational speakers and the self-help industry. So who better to ask for his take on New Year's resolutions? Rubin said ...