In The News: Honors College

PBS

B-boy sensation JD Rainey goes from leg braces to the Vegas stage of Magic Mike Live. Then he takes us backstage to meet the Lady performers and get their take on the show's empowering message. Explore the Sahara Casino's history at the Neon Museum. Meet Chuck Frommer, owner of John Mulls Meats and Road Kill Grill, tracing his family legacy from the Hoover Dam to BBQ fame.

The National Desk

Boeing has had a tumultuous several years after a pair of its signature 737s crashed in 2018 and 2019 in Indonesia and Ethiopia. Concerns about the safety of the plans have gotten worse in recent months after a door panel blew off during an Alaska Airlines flight in January.

Washington Examiner

Despite being known for its gaming industry and casinos, Nevada is one of five states without a statewide lottery. That’s by design. A statewide lottery is banned in Nevada’s 159-year-old constitution. The constitution was written when lotteries were seen as corrupt and coincided with a series of national reforms, most famously abolition, that swept the United States in the 1800s.

KLAS-TV: 8 News Now

Built in 1957, the Tropicana Hotel is a staple on the Las Vegas Strip, and guests are feeling nostalgic as the legendary resort will soon close its doors. “I think it’s pretty cool to be one of the last people to stay here,” tourist Dawn Baptist told Nexstar’s KLAS.

Fox 5 San Diego

Built in 1957, the Tropicana Hotel is a staple on the Las Vegas Strip, and guests are feeling nostalgic as the legendary resort will soon close its doors. “I think it’s pretty cool to be one of the last people to stay here,” tourist Dawn Baptist told Nexstar’s KLAS.

Fox 5 San Diego

A local museum was praised as one of the best in the country by a globally recognized magazine. According to Travel + Leisure, a travel magazine based in New York, the San Diego Air and Space Museum has been named one of the “10 Best Aviation Museums Around the U.S.“

MSN

Nothing lasts forever, and that's certainly true of airplanes. Most contemporary aircraft have a lifespan of at least 30 years, but when their time is up, where do they go?

Travel + Leisure

Nothing lasts forever, and that's certainly true of airplanes. Most contemporary aircraft have a lifespan of at least 30 years, but when their time is up, where do they go?

The Sun

Have you ever stopped to wonder why you always exit a plane on the left side? It turns out there is a reason why this is the case - and it’s not just planes who have this procedure.

Travel + Leisure

In this contemporary age of commercial aviation, it's easy to forget just how amazing it is that we can fly around the globe with ease. And that's why it's so important to visit aviation museums across the country. All 50 states, plus Washington, D.C., have at least one institution dedicated to flying, whether that's a major air and space museum, an aviation hall of fame, or an exhibit about various flight-adjacent topics, like famous aviators or iconic airlines.

The Road to Now

The Presidential election of 1860 is one we Americans know well. That election sent Abraham Lincoln to the White House, southern enslavers to the exit door, and the United States into a bloody Civil War. Lincoln’s leadership in those years and his tragic assassination in the last days of the war propelled the railsplitter into the pantheon of American Presidents.

Scientific American

“Hoots and derision—which did not worry me at all,” Lilian Bland wrote, describing her visit to an air show in Blackpool, England, in 1909. She’d been telling everyone there that she intended to build and fly her own airplane. They were unimpressed. Bland was undeterred. She built a DIY plane of bamboo, wood and fabric, with a bicycle handlebar for steering and an engine she carried from England back to her home in Ireland. But would the Mayfly, as she called it, fly?