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August 10, 2008 - 9:00 pm

Joan Jett rocking after 30 years

After better than 30 years in the music biz, Joan Jett still looks like she feasts on broken glass for breakfast.

Lean, sinewy and tougher than an overcooked rib-eye, Jett's gone from teen guitar queen to rock radio staple to punk progenitor over three decades, resonating with everyone from the gray-bearded classic rock set to the fresh-faced Warped Tour crowd.

Jett may have grown up, but she's never grown old.

See her at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday at the South Point pool, 9777 Las Vegas Blvd. South. Tickets are $40; call 797-8055.

-- By JASON BRACELIN

Jennifer Vasquez Sura, left, hugs her husband Kilmar Abrego Garcia at the Immigration and Custo ...

SAUNDERS: Why Team Trump wants to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia

By Debra J. Saunders / RJ

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The president wants him out, but the Salvadoran illegal immigrant wants to stay in a country he calls “corrupt.”

FILE - Susan Monarez, President Donald Trump's nominee to be director of the Centers for Diseas ...

CDC director out after less than a month on the job, federal officials say

By Mike Stobbe The Associated Press

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Susan Monarez, 50, was the agency’s 21st director and the first to pass through Senate confirmation following a 2023 law.

Cars are seen at a Las Vegas car dealership on Sahara Avenue, Wednesday, March 5, 2025. (Sam Mo ...

How car buyers, dealerships are being impacted by Nevada cyberattack

By Emerson Drewes / RJ

August 27, 2025 - 4:25 pm

Buyers could face delays getting their new vehicles registered because of the cyberattack

‘Malicious actors’ moved data out of network, Nevada officials say

By Jessica Hill and McKenna Ross / RJ

August 27, 2025 - 4:40 pm

Investigators found evidence indicating some data was moved outside of Nevada’s networks by “malicious actors” during a “sophisticated, ransomware-based” cyberattack first identified Sunday, officials confirmed Wednesday.

This photo provided by Pfizer in August 2025 shows a vial of the updated COVID-19 vaccine Comir ...

New COVID shots approved, but FDA limits access for many Americans

By Matthew Perrone Associated Press

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U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro speaks with reporters in the James Bra ...

Prosecutors fail to indict sandwich thrower in Trump’s DC public safety operation

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press

August 27, 2025 - 9:01 am

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‘Absolutely incomprehensible’: 2 children, shooter dead after attack at Minneapolis Catholic school

By Steve Karnowski, Mark Vancleave and Giovanna Dell’Orto The Associated Press

August 27, 2025 - 2:24 pm

The children who died were 8 and 10. Fourteen other kids and three octogenarian parishioners were wounded but expected to survive, the chief said.

Smoke from the Dragon Bravo fire settles into the Grand Canyon along the South Rim near Mather ...

How a ‘good fire’ in the Grand Canyon exploded into a raging inferno

Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times

August 27, 2025 - 6:28 am

The modest, 120-acre controlled burn exploded into a “megafire,” destroying a historic lodge and other buildings on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon.

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Was state of Nevada hit by a ransomware attack? ‘Symptoms line up’

By Jessica Hill, McKenna Ross and Ricardo Torres-Cortez / RJ

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CCSD director of family engagement Denise Diaz, superintendent Jhone Ebert and board of trustee ...

‘We care’: CCSD superintendent, others knock doors to get students back in school

By Spencer Levering / RJ

August 27, 2025 - 9:39 am

About 500 families have students who were enrolled in CCSD schools last year but did not re-enroll for classes this year, according to the school district.