Author: Regina Garcia Cano
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White House: Venezuela has freed 2 detained Americans
WASHINGTON • The Venezuelan government has freed two jailed Americans, including an oil executive imprisoned alongside colleagues for more than four years, as it seeks to improve relations with the Biden administration amid Russia’s war with Ukraine, the White House announced Tuesday night. Gustavo Cardenas was released following a secret weekend visit to Venezuela by…
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Powerful Democratic Congressman Elijah Cummings has died
BALTIMORE — Maryland U.S. Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, a sharecropper’s son who rose to become a civil rights champion and the powerful chairman of one of the U.S. House committees leading an impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump, died Thursday of complications from longstanding health problems. He was 68. Cummings was a formidable orator who…
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U.S. Catholic bishops convene to confront sex-abuse crisis
BALTIMORE • The nation’s Roman Catholic bishops convened a high-stakes meeting Tuesday under pressure to confront the ever-widening child sexual abuse crisis that has disillusioned many churchgoers. A key question at the four-day gathering: How willing are the bishops to give lay experts a major role in holding the clergy accountable? Francesco Cesareo, an academic…
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Giant bong, huggable buds: Marijuana museum opens in Vegas
LAS VEGAS — A glass bong taller than a giraffe. Huggable faux marijuana buds. A pool full of foam weed nuggets. Las Vegas’ newest attraction — and Instagram backdrop — is a museum celebrating all things cannabis. Nobody will be allowed to light up at Cannabition when it opens Thursday because of a Nevada ban…
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Historic Las Vegas neon signs set to shine bright once again
LAS VEGAS — As Frank Sinatra asks Lady Luck to stick around, the neon red lights of one of Las Vegas’ most famous towering signs appear to dance under the night sky, revealing a beating heart and the rest of the marquee of a famed casino-hotel. Other rusted, dusted and broken neon signs in a…
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Las Vegas hotels bet on technology to attract, dazzle guests
LAS VEGAS — It takes just minutes for a room service attendant to respond to a text message asking for a soda, bringing the Diet Coke on a tray with a glass of ice and lime wedges, no need for the modern hassle of placing a phone call. Thousands of guests at some of Las…
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Las Vegas looks outside the casinos to draw in millennials
LAS VEGAS — Casinos in Las Vegas are upping the ante in their pursuit of coveted millennial visitors with new attractions designed to wow them, provide them Instagram-worthy moments and maybe even get them to gamble a little. In 2018, a zip line across the street from Caesars Palace and an e-sports arena at the…
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Gunman’s brother in Vegas as police seek to find motive
LAS VEGAS — Investigators met with the brother of the Las Vegas gunman while friends and relatives of the 58 killed and other concert-goers who survived the deadliest shooting in modern U.S. history returned Monday to reclaim baby strollers, shoes, phones, backpacks and purses left behind in the panic as they fled. The interviews with…
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Sheriff: Shooter shot guard before he fired on concert-goers
LAS VEGAS— Law enforcement authorities on Monday made a significant change to the timeline of the Las Vegas mass shooting, saying the gunman shot a hotel security guard before he opened fire on concert-goers. Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo had previously said the guard was shot after gunman Stephen Paddock fired at the country music…
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Lost items from Las Vegas shooting returned to some who fled
LAS VEGAS — The abandoned baby strollers, shoes, phones, backpacks and purses strewn for days across the huge crime scene of the Las Vegas massacre were slowly being returned to their owners Sunday to become sad souvenirs of a horrific night. One week ago, the same scene was home to a happy day of country…