I was originally interested in women’s health and pediatrics as an undergraduate, [but] a medical-anthropology course just blew my mind. I fell in love with this notion that to really understand people and how they’re doing, you need to understand them in this broad cross-cultural perspective.

Last time, we were talking about Muhammad Ali … before he was actually Muhammad Ali, just starting out as a professional fighter and winning the seventh bout of his career when he fought for the first time in Las Vegas.

The Thrilla in Manila. The Rumble in the Jungle. The Fight of the Century. Those are the boxing matches for which Muhammad Ali probably will be best remembered. Still others will think of him as a transcendent historic figure—renouncing what he called his slave name, his conversion to Islam, his resistance to the draft during Vietnam, and simply what he represented. For us in Las Vegas, he meant all of that, and more.

You see them at Red Rock and Mount Charleston and everywhere else the impossibly fit and physically active play, those guys and gals who give us ordinary schlubs both the incentive to stay active and the frustration of knowing that we’ll never be like them.

U District beckons UNLV students with glossy pamphlets celebrating college life, a pitch punctuated with images of hip, attractive 20-somethings frolicking and posing for selfies.

In her first speech as Britain’s new prime minister, Theresa May spoke to her country’s working-class families and pledged to build a “better Britain” for them.

MGM Resorts International, which has the largest number of casino venues on the Las Vegas Strip, announced on Wednesday it had launched a mobile gaming platform and online tournament available on the Wi-Fi telecommunications system at nine MGM properties.

It’s been a vision of UNLV leaders for years: A widely supported medical school educating the region’s future doctors and bearing the university’s name.

Every day for the last week and a half, restaurant, hotel, and casino workers clad in red T-shirts have crowded the stretch of Atlantic City's boardwalk between the Trump Taj Mahal and the Steel Pier amusement park.