Gov. Steve Sisolak on Monday night responded to President Donald Trump hours after the president said many governors were weak in dealing with Black Lives Matter protesters.
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National and state Republican officials sued Clark County on Monday, accusing officials of making a “shady backroom deal” with Democrats over the conduct of the June 9 mail-in primary election.
Nevada will vastly expand its COVID-19 testing and contact tracing abilities under a framework announced Monday by Gov. Steve Sisolak, an effort funded by federal dollars.
The Henderson City Council will consider a development plan with 1,275 homes, a project that has drawn opposition from neighbors.
Despite the angry denunciations of brutal police tactics and racism that led to weekend riots, it may take time for Congress to react with legislation to curb the violence.
Earlier in the day during a conference call, Trump unloaded on the nations’ governors, telling them, “most of you are weak.”
Federal health authorities have received reports of nearly 26,000 nursing home residents dying from COVID-19, according to materials prepared for the nation’s governors. That number is partial and likely to go higher.
An autopsy commissioned for George Floyd’s family found that he died of asphyxiation due to neck and back compression when a Minneapolis police officer held his knee on Floyd’s neck until he stopped breathing, ignoring his cries of distress, the family’s attorneys said Monday.
Spurred largely by George Floyd’s death, protesters have taken to the streets to decry the killings of black people by police. Minneapolis Officer Derek Chauvin has been charged with murder, but protesters are demanding that three of his colleagues be prosecuted, too.
New data posted by the Southern Nevada Health District pushed the total number of cases reported in the county to 6,719 and raised the death toll to 343.
Health experts need newly infected people to remember and recount everyone they’ve interacted with over several days in an effort to prevent them from spreading the disease further. But contact tracing, relies on people knowing who they’ve been in contact with — a daunting task if they’ve been to a mass gathering.
Over the last decade, 51 people were killed in crashes involving teen drivers in Nevada during the period between Memorial Day and Labor Day, according to AAA.
With cities wounded by days of violent unrest, America headed into a new week with neighborhoods in shambles, urban streets on lockdown and shaken confidence about when leaders would find the answers to control the mayhem amid unrelenting raw emotion.
