The Sahara Hotel & Casino, located on the busy strip of Las Vegas, is closing after almost six decades of business. Many other casinos established from the early days of gambling in the city of sin have already been rebuilt into top megaresorts. However, owners of Sahara Hotel & Casino have no plans yet for […]

Rising rivers caused by several days of continued rain forced hundreds of families out of their homes in Maine and Maryland on Friday. However, flooding across the East is still far from a widespread catastrophe. Currently waning out from the snowy winter season, areas outside of the city of New York were the most affected. […]

Plans to build a London sculpture using girders retrieved from the World Trade Center, which was destroyed after a terrorist attack on September 11, 2001, have been set aside after it received complaints from the 9/11 victim’s families. The artwork is designed by Miya Ando, a Japanese-Russian artist. It was to be made out of […]

The U.S. government has allowed eight additional airports to provide charter flights going to and from Cuba. This is part of the most recent small opening in the U.S. trade embargo against the Caribbean country. On Tuesday, Customs and Border Protection said Cuba flights will now be permitted from airports in Puerto Rico, San Juan, […]

A new exposition was held last week at New York’s exhibition space, Discovery Times Square. The exhibit, which came all the way from Italy, captured the last glimpse of the old city of Pompeii. The city of Pompeii is a partially buried region in Rome. It was covered with 4 to 6 inches of mud, […]

A massive amount of dead sardines were found drifting in a harbor marina located just south of Los Angeles. The incident puzzled authorities who initiated a huge cleanup drive. News footage that aired on television showed piles of dead fish, which was about a foot deep from the surface, according to a police spokesman. It […]

Washington’s cherry blossoms may bloom earlier this year as temperature increases in the district, an expert from National Park Service said on Thursday. He said cherry trees may come to a full blossom in late March. Rob DeFeo, chief horticulturist, said that cherry blooms might bloom best starting March 29 until April 3. However, the […]

A college student who recently became the youngest female police chief in Mexico received death threats and is currently in United States to seek for asylum, an advocate for human rights reported on Friday. Gustavo de la Rosa Hickerson, an official of the Human Rights Commission in the state of Chihuahua, said that Marisol Valles […]

The United States advised citizens currently staying in Yemen to consider leaving the country since protests to oust President Ali Abdullah Saleh are obtaining momentum. It says the safety of the citizens in the state is highly risky. Thousands of protesters have gathered around major cities in Yemen. On Sunday, violence emerged as loyalists of […]

The yearly horticultural festival bids goodbye to the fierce winter storms as it brings Paris to Philadelphia. Themed “Springtime in Paris,” the Philadelphia International Flower Show welcomed visitors with over 25,000 tulips displayed under an artificial Eiffel Tower on Sunday. The colorful floral exhibits overwhelm the senses of tourists as they mingle with mimes and […]