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With the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) being held virtually this week, hotel-casino room rates in Las Vegas have dropped by hundreds of dollars compared to last year.
Henderson-based conservative social media app Parler is fighting to get back online after Amazon Web Services removed it from its platform Sunday night.
“Great,” I thought to myself the other day when I first learned of a new Netflix movie about an open relationship. “Here’s finally a story about people like me.” But it turns out the only thing worse than very rarely seeing the kind of life you live depicted in a movie is to see it grossly misunderstood and judged. Newness turned out to be nothing more than a morality play warning people of how vapid and doomed to failure open relationships are, and presenting the relative boredom (as they depicted it) of monogamy to be worth the price of love.
Nye County officials on Monday attempted to distance themselves from a conspiracy-laden letter written last week by the chairman of the Nye County Republican Party Central Committee.
Sheldon G. Adelson, a billionaire casino tycoon and free-spending political donor who helped bankroll conservative candidates in the United States and Israel, and who pushed the governments of both countries to reject the establishment of a Palestinian state alongside Israel, died Jan. 11 in Malibu, Calif. He was 87.
The Elon Musk-designed underground transport system under the Las Vegas Convention Center was to be unveiled for the opening of the new West Hall and the annual CES this month. But of course the pandemic intervened, the 170,000 people who were expected to attend CES 2021 stayed home and both the West Hall and the tunnels have gone unused.
51ԹϺ professor David Schwartz joins us on phone this morning for some perspective on Mr. Adelson and the Sam's corporation in Las Vegas.
Starting Monday, Jan. 11, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas will be the newest COVID-19 vaccination site in Las Vegas.
