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A lot of meals don’t get served without them.”Some 24% fewer Canadians visited Las Vegas overall last year. Canadians first began going to Las Vegas around the 1950s, hopping on air junkets organized by Las Vegas casinos to entice high rollers, Firestone said. The Vegas Golden Knights reached the Stanley Cup final in their first season and turned Las Vegas into “hockeytown.”The Vegas Golden Knights have made the Stanley Cup Final twice since 2017. Ethan Miller/Getty Images‘Everything is going backwards’The sharp drop in Canadian tourism has also hit workers and Las Vegas’ tourist-dependent economy. Cooks are usually in high demand in Las Vegas, but he is only getting two or three days a week at the Cosmo.

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I and the others present, including Bob Woodward and Ben Bradlee (who was still a vice-president of the Washington Post Co.), left in a state of exhilaration. That night he told Case, “I want to be publisher of The Washington Post.” She offered to introduce him to Bezos. A new, conservative opinion editor was hired, and nine decades of Washington Post editorial tradition went up in smoke. The movie came out in January, the month before staff cuts crippled the Post. In the thirteen years since Bezos bought The Washington Post, he has become a remote proprietor.

The Trump administration is proposing a new rule on how the government conducts mass layoffs after last year’s cuts led by Trump adviser Elon Musk were mired in legal challenges and confusion. The Office of Personnel Management, the federal government’s HR arm, published a proposed rule Thursday that it says will streamline the layoff process and put a new emphasis on job performance rankings rather than seniority. If finalized, the proposed rule would require agencies to sort employees with a rubric that prioritizes their three most recent ratings, with a preference for veterans. The proposed rule also would exclude probationary employees from layoffs, after the Trump administration had conducted a massive purge of those employees last year. The administration has also proposed transferring responsibility for reviewing federal employee appeals of proposed layoffs.

LOADING ERROR LOADINGFox News’ Dana Perino is defending the “mainstream media” amid the Trump administration’s ongoing criticisms of its coverage of the war in Iran. Perino’s comments on the coverage of the Iran war can be found around the 6:00 mark. “I get it, the press only wants to make the president look bad. But try for once to report the reality.”AdvertisementLater on Wednesday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt doubled down on Hegseth’s stance when questioned in a separate press briefing about the defense secretary’s remarks. In a post on his Truth Social platform on Monday, he placed the blame on his predecessors, former President Barack Obama and former President Joe Biden.

LOADING ERROR LOADINGWASHINGTON – Republicans in the House of Representatives on Thursday voted down a bipartisan resolution directing President Donald Trump to end his new war in Iran. The resolution failed by a vote of 219 to 212, with two Republicans in support and four Democrats against. AdvertisementBut Massie said there’s an even more important question: “Why are we going to war with Iran? This week, Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters the attack was necessary because Israel planned to attack Iran first, and then Iran would attack the United States. (Trump later said it was his decision to strike first based on an intuition that Iran was planning an attack.)

Democrats cheered her departure but said it wasn’t enough to end the DHS shutdown that will soon enter its fourth week. “This is a problem of policy, not personnel,” Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-New York) told reporters Thursday. Congressional Democrats have swapped offers with the White House, but an agreement remains elusive. Noem’s chosen replacement, former House member and now-Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Oklahoma), is a known quantity to both chambers. “The White House and Republicans have been willing to codify reforms and changes that Democrats have asked for, but right now it’s never enough,” said Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-South Dakota).

Eight players were ejected and a referee was knocked to the ground during an altercation between South Alabama and Coastal Carolina players. ›A brawl broke out during a Sun Belt Conference women's basketball tournament game between South Alabama and Coastal Carolina, leading to the ejection of eight players and an injured referee. Coastal Carolina forward Tracey Hueston has been suspended for the rest of the postseason, while three South Alabama players received one-game suspensions. The detailsThe brawl occurred with 5:39 remaining in the fourth quarter of the game, which South Alabama won 80-70. Amyah Sutton A South Alabama player who was ejected from the game and received a one-game suspension from the Sun Belt Conference.

Mullin would need to be confirmed by the Senate, but under federal law is allowed to serve as acting Homeland Security secretary while his nomination is pending. “President Trump should have made it explicit, rather than disguising it with another position of public trust.”Noem was also criticized over how her department spent billions of dollars allocated by Congress. Early criticism of Noem came last June, as DHS was scaling up raids throughout Los Angeles. Angelica Salas, executive director of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights in Los Angeles, said Noem’s departure was long overdue. ___Andrea Castillo and Ana Ceballos; Los Angeles Times; (TNS) ; ©2026 Los Angeles Times.

For months, former residents of the Pacific Palisades Bowl Mobile Estates have feared the uncommunicative owners of the property would seek to displace them in favor of a more lucrative development deal after the Palisades fire destroyed the rent-controlled, roughly 170-unit mobile home park. A confidential memorandum listing the Bowl for sale indicates the owners intend to do exactly that. Fire debris at Pacific Palisades Bowl in January 2026. Ross said she approached the owners with independent mobile home park developers who were interested in buying the fire-destroyed lot and letting residents rebuild within months. She also approached the owners with a proposition that the former residents band together to buy the park.

The strike was part of attacks by Iran on energy infrastructure in Qatar and fellow U.S. ally Saudi Arabia. Qatar Energy, which produces and exports LNG, said in a statement Monday that it “ceased production” at the facility. It is unclear how long it will take Qatar Energy to repair the plant. In India, the second-largest importer of Qatari LNG, gas supplies to industrial users are being cut, according to local media reports, leading ceramics manufacturers in that country to pause operations. “Any wind farm, any solar installation in Europe is less natural gas they have to import.”“Europe is the only major economy in the world using less natural gas today than they did a decade ago,” he said.

Trump announced the decision on social media and said Noem would be replaced by Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Oklahoma), effective at the end of this month. In his post, Trump praised Noem as having “served us well” and praised her for “numerous and spectacular results (especially on the Border! Noem was attending a conference in Nashville when Trump made the announcement, delivering the keynote address at the Sergeant Benevolent Association Major Cities Conference. She mentioned that she would join Trump and two other Cabinet secretaries Saturday to announce an agreement to combat drug cartels. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) — another Trump ally — praised the announcement, saying “it was time for a change.”Democrats were more circumspect.

President Trump declared he would be “personally involved” in selecting Iran’s next leader as U.S. and Israeli forces continued their bombardment of its government Thursday, even as officials in Tehran insisted they could withstand the ongoing war. Iran continued retaliatory missile and drone attacks against Israel and U.S. military sites across the region. People arrive to sign a condolence book in memory of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at the Embassy of Iran in New Delhi, India, on Thursday. The conflict threatens to stoke longstanding tensions between Tehran and Kurdish groups opposed to the Iranian government. Iranian forces have already launched missile and drone strikes against Kurdish-controlled areas in northern Iraq following the initial U.S.–Israeli assault on Iranian targets.

Iran said the U.S. would “bitterly regret” torpedoing an Iranian warship near Sri Lanka a day earlier. AdvertisementAll the while, the U.S. and Israel battered Iran with nationwide strikes, targeting their military capabilities, leadership and nuclear program. “Or you’ll face absolutely guaranteed death.”AdvertisementIn the Axios interview, Trump derided 56-year-old Mojtaba Khamenei, who has never been elected or appointed to a government position, as “a lightweight.”“We want someone that will bring harmony and peace to Iran,” Trump said. Ambassador Mojtaba Ferdousi Pour denied comments by Trump that Iran wants to negotiate. AP Photo/Konstantin ToropinThe war keeps expandingThe U.S. military said early Friday that an Iranian drone carrier was attacked and set ablaze.