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Las Vegas Review Journal

The UNLV Rebel Girls & Company captured two national championships for the second straight year at the 2026 Universal Dance Association College Nationals in Orlando. UNLV won the Division IA Hip Hop and Division IA Game Day Dance titles, earning the program's seventh national championship in each of the two categories. 

Las Vegas Sun

Rabbi Cookie Olshein of Congregation Ner Tamid and the Rev. Adrian Doll, senior pastor of Green Valley Presbyterian Church, stood together to light three tall blue candles adorned with the Star of David at King David Memorial Chapel’s Holocaust Remembrance Garden.

Indica News

Over the past couple of years, the popularity of GLP-1 receptor agonists, which are a class of typically injectable medications that simulate the glucagon-like peptide-1 hormone, to treat type 2 diabetes and obesity, has gained enormous popularity.

Las Vegas Review Journal

UNLV in May launched the Artificial Intelligence Research Hub (AiRHub) to tackle issues involving the pros and cons of AI in gaming, and researchers expect to deliver papers this year on whether regulatory guardrails should be implemented to prevent hurting consumers who play in the state’s casinos and employees who work there.

Las Vegas Review Journal

UNLV in May launched the Artificial Intelligence Research Hub (AiRHub) to tackle issues involving the pros and cons of AI in gaming, and researchers expect to deliver papers this year on whether regulatory guardrails should be implemented to prevent hurting consumers who play in the state’s casinos and employees who work there.

N.B.C. Sports

Perhaps no U.S. Olympian has had quite the meteoric rise as bobsled star Kaysha Love. Before 2020, the Utah native had not even competed on the ice track, but entering the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics, Love has as much momentum as any athlete in the sport.

 

Las Vegas Review Journal

On a fall night in 1982, mob figure Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal was almost blown up outside a Tony Roma’s in Las Vegas – a harrowing attack portrayed in the opening scene of “Casino.”

More than 40 years after the infamous car bombing, the Tony Roma’s building is home to a sex-toy shop, and a neighboring former Marie Callender’s is boarded-up. Now the plaza itself where Rosenthal was nearly killed in a suspected mob hit has been sold.

 

M.S.N.

Looking to revitalize your fitness routine? A straightforward yet impactful method could be to start walking backwards. While a brisk forward walk offers myriad benefits – strengthening bones, building muscle, boosting cardiovascular health, and easing stress – its familiar rhythm can become monotonous. This is where retro walking, or reverse walking, presents a compelling alternative.

 

Las Vegas Review Journal

Money from a spending package signed by President Donald Trump on Tuesday will go toward a permanent Holocaust and genocide research center at UNLV, a member of the governor’s Holocaust education advisory council said.

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