Stocks resume rise, gold to record $1,940 ahead of busy week

The S&P 500 was 0.4% higher in midday trading following mixed, modest moves for stocks overseas. Nervousness was still hanging over markets, though, and gold shot above $1,940 per ounce to touch its highest-ever price

Intense, violent protests rock Portland, other US cities

A night that started with a reported shooting and a bag found with loaded rifle magazines and Molotov cocktails amid a peaceful protest morphed into an intense early Monday morning confrontation between demonstrators and law enforcement in Oregon’s largest city.

New study may predict ‘worst case’ climate scenario for Nevada

UNLV researchers took samples from stalagmites in Leviathan Cave revealing one of the hottest and driest periods the state had ever gone through — thousands of years ago. The worry is it could happen again.

Coronavirus vaccine test of 30K volunteers begins Monday

The world’s biggest COVID-19 vaccine study got underway Monday with the first of 30,000 planned volunteers helping to test shots created by the U.S. government.