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Avoiding media, Trump disbands advisory councils and signs new GI bill

Avoiding a repeat confrontation with the media, President Donald Trump signed a bill to improve education benefits for veterans in a closed event Wednesday at his Bedminster golf course in New Jersey.

Forum participants back Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program

Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients and American citizens with immigrant family members from across the West Coast are stationed at the Stratosphere over the next two days to learn how they could use their stories to shift opinions in DACA’s favor.

 
Stakeholders fume over Zinke’s shortened Nevada monuments visit

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s cancellation of planned meetings with tribal leaders and Rep. Dina Titus prompted an angry news conference Monday at which they accused him of not wanting to hear “the whole story.”

 
Zinke caps review of Nevada monuments with Bunkerville visit

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke spoke to reporters Sunday evening in Bunkerville as he wrapped up a much-anticipated visit to Southern Nevada that included a hike at Gold Butte National Monument and a stop at Basin and Range National Monument to see American Indian rock art.

DREAMers worry for undocumented parents despite new act

Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D. Ill. introduced the American Hope Act Friday early morning, which would allow DACA recipients and other undocumented children who entered the U.S. prior to their 18th birthday to apply for conditional permanent resident status.

Weather ‘curveballs’ fail to halt Red Flag exercise at Nellis

Despite thunderstorms that forced cancellation of Red Flag missions Tuesday and Wednesday, pilots of F-35 joint strike fighter jets and F-22 Raptors have made significant strides in the ongoing air combat exercise that ends Friday at Nellis Air Force Base.

 
Air Force chief objects to Yucca Mountain nuclear routes

U.S. Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson objects to proposed Yucca Mountain nuke waste rail routes that she said would encroach on the Nevada Test and Training Range.

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