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Las Vegas Beyond the Tables: How a Desert Casino Town Became the World’s Leisure Capital

Las Vegas Beyond the Tables: How a Desert Casino Town Became the World’s Leisure Capital

When you picture Las Vegas, the image that springs to mind is usually neon, slot machines and the Strip’s impossible skyline. That shorthand isn’t wrong — gambling is the city’s origin story — but it’s also partial. Over the last century Las Vegas has quietly re-made itself again

Hamas Mobilises Thousands in Gaza as Fears of Internal Violence Mount

Hamas Mobilises Thousands in Gaza as Fears of Internal Violence Mount

WASHINGTON — Hamas ordered thousands of fighters to return to Gaza this weekend, a rapid and public mobilisation that officials and analysts say is aimed at reasserting the group’s authority after an uneasy ceasefire — but which critics warn risks triggering a wave of internal violence as rival militias and clan

Federal Workforce Hit: Administration Starts Layoffs During Shutdown

Federal Workforce Hit: Administration Starts Layoffs During Shutdown

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Friday began carrying out long-threatened layoffs of federal employees, filing court papers and sending reduction-in-force notices to thousands of workers as the stalemated government shutdown entered its second week. The Office of Management and Budget told a federal court that roughly 4,200 positions across

One Post, $2T Lost: How Trump’s Tweet Triggered a Market Rout

One Post, $2T Lost: How Trump’s Tweet Triggered a Market Rout

NEW YORK — Markets reeled on Friday after a terse social-media post from President Donald Trump threatening sweeping new tariffs on Chinese goods and fresh export controls wiped roughly $2 trillion in market value from U.S. equities in a single, volatile session, according to market-cap tallies and sell-side estimates. Investors

Monte Carlo: The History of a Leisure Capital — From Casino to Cultural Icon

Monte Carlo: The History of a Leisure Capital — From Casino to Cultural Icon

Monte Carlo as we know it today — a compact stretch of Belle Époque façades, luxury hotels, Michelin-starred restaurants, glossy boutiques and high-octane sporting spectacles — began life as a deliberate experiment in how a tiny state could buy prosperity with leisure. The story is not glamour alone; it is a calculated

Ukraine Hit by Massive Russian Strikes on Energy Grid, Blackouts Affect Hundreds of Thousands

Ukraine Hit by Massive Russian Strikes on Energy Grid, Blackouts Affect Hundreds of Thousands

KYIV — Ukraine said on Friday that a “massive” overnight Russian assault deliberately struck its energy infrastructure, knocking out power for hundreds of thousands of people, damaging thermal plants and railway links and killing at least one child as the country braces for a perilous winter. Kyiv’s leaders called the

Shutdown Crisis: Do Furloughed Federal Employees Really Get Back Pay?

Shutdown Crisis: Do Furloughed Federal Employees Really Get Back Pay?

WASHINGTON — The deepening government shutdown has begun to bite federal paychecks, as hundreds of thousands of civil servants receive reduced or delayed wages and many more face weeks without pay unless Congress acts — a reality sharpened by a controversial White House legal memo that questions whether furloughed workers are automatically