The unemployment rate edged up to a still-low 4%, from 3.9%, ending a 27-month streak of unemployment below 4%, the Labor Department said Friday.
Politics and Government
The Henderson City Council on Tuesday approved giving a 3.5 percent bonus to City Manager Richard Derrick.
Henderson and North Las Vegas soon will be able to sponsor and oversee charter schools, after the Nevada Department of Education gave its blessing this week.
A political action committee says Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is ineligible to appear on the November ballot unless he resubmits his petition to comply with Nevada law.
The Henderson City Council on Tuesday approved Resolution 48, which adds a ballot question asking residents whether they want to fund Fire Department improvements and maintenance.
Joseph R. Biden took the oath of office and became the 46th president of the United States on Wednesday following the bitterly fought 2020 election.
His campaign and his allies have now filed roughly 50 lawsuits alleging widespread voting fraud.
A Clark County district court judge on Friday denied two attempts by Republicans to overturn the Nov. 3 election results in Nevada’s most populous county.
Democrats have a lead of 43,600 votes over Republicans in Clark County, largely thanks to mail voting.
With more than two weeks until the election, more than twice as many Nevada voters have returned ballots by mail than in the entire 2016 election.
Lara Trump, the president’s campaign adviser and daughter-in-law, urged Republicans to vote early and criticized Democrat Joe Biden during a small rally in Las Vegas Tuesday.
She joins Maine Sen. Susan Collins among Republicans opposed to confirming a successor to the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg before the election.
Joe Biden accepted the Democratic nomination for president Thursday with a message of unity and hope for a nation battered by racial strife and a pandemic that has left death and economic insecurity.
Former pro wrestler Dan Rodimer is going up against freshman Rep. Susie Lee in the 3rd Congressional District, with plenty of outside money set to influence the race.
Joe Biden warned Wednesday that those “tasked with enforcing the law are abusing their powers,” offering a measured critique of the Trump administration a day after he declined to respond to President Donald Trump’s attacks directly.
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