The son-in-law of billionaire casino owner Sheldon Adelson arranged the $140 million purchase of the Las Vegas Review-Journal on Adelson’s behalf, sources confirmed Wednesday.
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Nine candidates will debate at 6 p.m. Tuesday at The Venetian for the final Republican presidential primary debate of 2015, a critical event that will help shape the contest heading into the Iowa caucuses.
Nevada’s medical marijuana industry has barely gotten off the ground. But already, people on both sides are quietly preparing for a public fight over what would be an even bigger revolution.
Five Democratic presidential contenders will take the debate stage Tuesday at the Wynn Las Vegas. It’s a venue that gives both Southern Nevada and the candidates an elevated national profile, broadcast on CNN and sponsored by the cable network and Facebook.
A new statewide coalition has been formed to get the country’s presidential candidates to focus on chronic disease as the real driver of increasing health care costs.
The U.S. House last week voted to end the National Security Agency’s mass collection of telephone records, a piece of the Patriot Act decried as a privacy invasion but which the Obama administration says is crucial to detect potential terrorist attacks.
Don’t know if they are going to need many podiums, but Democrats on Tuesday said one of their presidential primary debates will be held in Nevada.
North Las Vegas Mayor John Lee made good on his promise to change his city — it’s whether his leadership has the city on the road to reform or the fast track to failure that people can’t agree on.
Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman easily won a second term Tuesday, holding off a ferocious challenge from Stavros Anthony. Incumbent council members in Las Vegas, as well as North Las Vegas and Henderson, also won decisively.
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, an independent populist who may challenge Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination, said if he runs it will be to take on “the billionaire class” getting richer while America’s middle class declines.