Throughout the two years of COVID-19, there was a familiar pattern: A rise in cases, followed by a rise in hospitalizations, and then a rise in deaths.

On June 30, the Supreme Court handed down its last and virtually only uplifting decision in an otherwise regressive and chilling term. After killing Roe v. Wade and the constitutional right to abortion, limiting Miranda Rights protections, and delivering a blow to climate action, the conservative supermajority decided not to add the rights of immigrants to their list of casualties—at least not entirely—and gave a rare win to the Biden administration.

Thousands of miles and circumstances separate a Jewish clergyman based in Maryland and a death row inmate in Texas. But the two men’s lives have become enmeshed through dozens of handwritten letters over the past year. One sticks out to cantor and chaplain Michael Zoosman: a February 2021 response from the Polunsky Unit prison in which Ramiro Gonzales offered to donate a kidney to one of Zoosman’s congregants.

Macau would “forever be” the largest single-jurisdiction casino gaming market in the world, suggested the boss of United States-based MGM Resorts International, majority owner of Macau operator MGM China Holdings Ltd.

A little over 6 months into 2022, the United States has surpassed 300 mass shootings nationwide, according to the Gun Violence Archive.

Eliza Wiggins has recently joined the International Gaming Institute (IGI) of the University of Las Vegas, Nevada (UNLV) as Community Programs Manager.

Amanda Belarmino, an assistant professor at UNLV’s Harrah College of Hospitality, spent more than two decades helping to manage casinos, hotels and restaurants before a move into higher education.

We’ve been dealing with COVID-19 for more than two years now. Now we’ve got monkeypox.

For senior Merci Silva-Acosta, a Spanish linguistics and literature major, life at UNLV has been good since she transferred in 2020.