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U.S. Senate Moves Forward On Gun Safety Legislation
If passed, it would provide $750 million for states to enact “red flag laws,” which allow the courts to temporarily remove a firearm.
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Tribal Leader In NV Named To First-Ever Interior Tribal Advisory Panel – And She Has A To-Do List
Amber Torres will serve as the main representative for the Western region, which includes Nevada and most of Utah and Arizona.
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Trump Led Pressure Campaign On State Election Officials, Jan. 6 Panel Says
Trump and his attorneys knew that several claims of fraud were untrue, but pushed them anyway.
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Clark County Passes STR Law Amid Allegations Of Payoffs, Pressure From Lobbyists
The ordinance will permit about 2,800 rentals and presumably crack down on the remaining properties operating illegally.
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U.S. Supreme Court Ruling On Public Money For Private Schools Prompts Cheers, Jeers In NV
The National Education Association described the Carson v. Makin ruling as “radical” and an attack on public education.
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Nye County In Need Of Foster Parents
Families interested in helping foster children can learn how Saturday, June 25 at a community forum in Pahrump.
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The District Of Columbia Allows Incarcerated People To Vote, A Rarity In The U.S.
“Over 2 million people are incarcerated at the moment and those are a lot of voices that need to be heard.”
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Nevada Food Bank Kicks Off Summer Meals Program For Kids
Community initiatives complement each other in fight against hunger.
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Infrastructure Law Funds Nevada Sagebrush Restoration Projects
Funding from the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act signed into law last year will support 15 projects across the state.
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Interior To Launch Mental Health Program For Wildland Firefighters, Boost Wildfire Spending
The programs are critical now, with climate change making fires frequent and intense, Secretary Deb Haaland said.
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McMahill Wins Sheriff's Race Outright, And Other Down-Ballot Primary Results
Below are primary election results for Clark County commission, judicial, and other county offices.
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On Juneteenth, The History Of How Emancipated People Were Kept Unfree Needs To Be Remembered, Too
The emancipations shared three common features that, added together, merely freed the enslaved in one sense, but reenslaved them in another.
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Pence Was Within 40 Feet Of Mob Inflamed By Trump, Jan. 6 Committee Reveals
As the mob approached the U.S. Senate chamber in the Capitol, the vice president’s Secret Service retinue hustled him into a secure location
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Labor Leaders Attack Laxalt As Pawn Of Big Oil
Now that Cortez Masto's opponent in November has been decided, her supporters are wasting no time turning up the heat on Laxalt.
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North Las Vegas Ballot Proposal Seeks To Rework Restrictions On Transitional Housing
The city's current policy requires that the facilities must be at least 1,500 feet from religious institutions, daycares, schools and parks.
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FDA Greenlights Emergency Use Of COVID Vaccines For Kids Under 5
The decision leaves just one hurdle, a recommendation from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Yes, Actually, The January 6 Hearings Are More Important Than The Price Of Gas
Just as the GOP is the party of Trump now, during the Bush-Cheney years it was the party of war.
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Nevada Tribe, Conservationists Urge 9th Circuit To Halt Geothermal Plant Construction
Advocates say the project in Churchill County threatens to destroy a sacred site and drive the rare Dixie Valley toad to extinction.
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Did The Assault Weapons Ban Of 1994 Bring Down Mass Shootings? Here's What The Data Tells Us
Researchers compared what happened with mass shooting deaths before, during and after the prohibition was in place.
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Effects Of Gun Violence On Kids Probed By U.S. Senate Committee
“Guns are killing our kids at a devastating rate,” Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., chair of the committee, said in his opening statement.
