Gamal Abdelaziz, a former Strip casino executive, and John Wilson argued in appeals filed Monday that they believed they were making legitimate donations, not bribes, to get their children into elite universities.
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A New York judge found former President Donald Trump in contempt of court and set in motion $10,000 daily fines Monday for failing to adequately respond to a subpoena issued by the state’s attorney general as part of a civil investigation into his business dealings.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin informed Ukraine’s president of a more than $300 million package of foreign military financing and a $165 million sale of ammunition.
Construction has begun on what is billed as the world’s largest wildlife crossing for mountain lions and other animals caught in Southern California’s urban sprawl.
Gusts were forecast to batter parts of Arizona and New Mexico through the weekend. Firefighters are battling a half-dozen wildfires in the Southwest.
The Central Sierra Snow Lab at the University of California, Berkeley said Friday that more than 16 inches of snow fell in the past day.
Heavy snow and rain fell across Northern California on Thursday as a substantial spring storm moved through the state after a dry winter.
Firefighters attacking blazes across the Southwest are preparing for winds to strengthen. One of the largest outside of Flagstaff, Arizona, has grown to more than 32 square miles.
Jay Wright shocked college basketball Wednesday night with his immediate resignation at Villanova, the Big East program he led to two national championships and four Final Fours in a Hall of Fame career.
An Arizona wildfire has more than tripled in size after tearing through two dozen structures and forcing the evacuation of more than 700 homes.
New snow is covering parts of the Sierra Nevada and rain has fallen elsewhere in Northern California as spring delivers a taste of the kind of weather that was mostly absent during winter.
Homes on the outskirts of Flagstaff were being evacuated Tuesday as high winds whipped a wildfire, shut down a major highway and grounded firefighting aircraft.
The Nevada office of the FBI has a new special agent in charge, with the announcement Monday that Spencer Evans will head the bureau’s Las Vegas field office.
A spring storm brought several feet of snow to the Sierra Nevada and rain to parts of the San Francisco Bay Area, with more stormy weather expected this week.
With missiles and rockets also battering other parts of the country, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Russian soldiers of carrying out torture and kidnappings in areas they control.
