As federal unemployment benefits begin to run out and as states struggle to balance budgets amid the coronavirus, Democrats on Monday urged Republicans to pass additional relief.
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As the coronavirus ravages state budgets, Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto plans to push for the Senate to take up a House bill to provide local governments with federal assistance.
House Democrats used the anniversary of George Floyd’s death under the knee of a Minneapolis policeman to pass a sweeping law enforcement reform bill Thursday that would ban tactics such as chokeholds and make it easier to prosecute officers for misconduct.
Because of ridership reductions in the coronavirus era, Amtrak is reducing passenger rail service, including a line that runs between Salt Lake City and Reno and serves rural Nevada.
Democratic senators blocked a Republican police reform bill from advancing to a vote, while Democrats in the House prepared their own bill on the subject.
A group of prominent scientists urged Congress to halt renewed nuclear weapons testing in Nevada after funds were tucked into a Senate version of the defense bill.
Changing public attitudes about racial inequality could propel a legislative effort to designate Juneteenth, which recognizes the end of slavery, as a federal holiday.
The Small Business Administration has revised the rules governing the Paycheck Protection Program to allow those with certain criminal convictions in the recent past to participate.
Democrats in Congress have introduced bills that would deny funding to the Trump administration to resume nuclear weapons testing in Nevada ahead of an expiring arms reduction treaty.
Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said he’s cancer-free and credits a California firm that has landed a contract to develop a vaccine to fight the coronavirus.