Locals have jokingly referred to the famous Las Vegas strip as a ghost town as tourists stay away in their droves Eye watering prices are keeping domestic tourists away while international visitors are down in line with the rest of the US (Image: Getty Images/Westend61) Las Vegas is facing a stark slowdown this summer as tourists sharply pull back amid …
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Facebook Tweet Email Link Billionaire Elon Musk donated a total of $15 million in June to super PACs favoring President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans ahead of next year’s midterm elections, new campaign finance reports show. The donations of $5 million each to MAGA Inc., the Senate Leadership Fund and the Congressional Leadership Fund came on June 27 – amid …
Read More »SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge ruled on Thursday against the Trump administration’s plans and extended Temporary Protected Status for 60,000 people from Central America and Asia, including people from Nepal, Honduras and Nicaragua. Temporary Protected Status is a protection that can be granted by the Homeland Security secretary to people of various nationalities who are in the United …
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A common sedative sometimes taken to get high is becoming deadlier. Research out this week finds that annual U.S. deaths caused by nitrous oxide, commonly known as laughing gas or whippits, have significantly spiked over the past decade and a half. Researchers at the University of Mississippi and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign conducted the study, an analysis of …
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We now live in the Pyrocene, a proposed new geologic epoch of high wildfire activity brought about by human-caused climate change. The occurrence of extreme fire weather is now roughly double compared to the preindustrial period, according to a study released just this week. The Pyrocene has brought a long summer of wildfire smoke in 2025 across North America, where plumes …
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A giant blob of abnormally hot rock beneath the Appalachian Mountains formed when Greenland separated from North America around 80 million years ago, new research suggests. Scientists previously thought that this hot zone, known as the Northern Appalachian Anomaly, was left over after North America broke away from Africa 180 million years ago, but this theory does not stand up …
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A Nike and Athleta store. Kylie Cooper | Reuters | Michael Brochstein | SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty Images Gap’s Athleta has tapped the head of Nike’s women’s business in North America as its next CEO, delivering a blow to the sneaker company as it tries to win back more female shoppers. Maggie Gauger, who has spent more than …
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