Fifty-eight people killed. More than 500 injured. And yet, nearly a month after the Las Vegas Strip experienced the worst mass shooting in modern American history, local and federal authorities are refusing to fill in the blanks. In the days after Oct. 1, when Stephen Paddock opened fire on the Route 91 Harvest festival crowd from his Mandalay Bay corner suite, Las Vegas police were hosting multiple news conferences a day. They released a comprehensive timeline, which ended up being wrong. They took it back, and tried to clarify the errors, but instead caused more confusion. At least twice this week, the Las Vegas Review-Journal has asked to speak with Sheriff Joe Lombardo about the shooting investigation. Both times, reporters were told by Carla Alston, the Police Department’s director of communications, that the sheriff “will not be conducting interviews.”
Aces star A’ja Wilson achieved a special milestone Sunday at Michelob Ultra Arena in a win against the Dallas Wings.
Boosted by southwest winds and the center of high pressure moving into central California, the record of 117 was tied at 1:56 p.m. Just over 30 minutes later it rose to 118
Washington again falls down on the job.
Supreme Court opens a can of worms. Careful. The dog might just have caught the car.
The presidential interview the American public needs to hear isn’t with George Stephanopoulos but Robert Hur.
The national debt is imprudent and immoral. Last month, the federal government added $347 billion to the debt, which will cross $35 trillion in short order.
President Joe Biden’s open borders policy isn’t just endangering Americans. It’s raised housing prices too.
Lessons from an earlier time. Zelensky might do well by studying the career of Mannerheim and how, with dignity, he saved Finland from the Russian meatgrinder.
Joe Biden’s closest confidants are wrestling with the same questions that 81.2 million of us who voted for him in 2020 have been mulling since the president’s disastrous debate against Donald Trump.
Put down the devices and linger in a good book this summer.