Images of the young boy wearing a bunny hat and Spider-Man backpack and surrounded by immigration officers drew outrage about the Trump administration’s crackdown in Minneapolis.
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The strike came days after U.S. President Donald Trump said the Kremlin had agreed to temporarily halt the targeting of the Ukrainian capital and other cities.
Israel’s announcement came a day after Israeli strikes killed at least 30 Palestinians including several children, according to hospital officials.
A 5-year-old boy and his father must be released by Tuesday from the Texas center where they’ve been held after being detained by immigration officers in Minnesota, a federal judge ordered Saturday.
Some Republicans are raising the possible of a prolonged shutdown fight when the House returns Monday to vote on the funding package.
A poll of 300 likely Nevada voters suggests that state lawmakers could suffer at the polls come election time next year if they do not support expanding rooftop solar efforts through a net metering program.
Key employees at swanky nightclubs in casino resorts in Nevada would be required to register with state gambling regulators under a bill designed to prevent unsavory workers from club-hopping and taking trouble with them.
Labor groups said Friday that if Nevada lawmakers want to require local governments to publicize proposed union contracts before ratifying them, the mandate should be extended to all contracts.
Las Vegas is losing ground as the “wedding capital of the world” as more destinations around the globe try to tap into the business of love and money.
A bill that proponents say would bring balance to a law protecting the free speech rights of critics from punitive and meritless defamation lawsuits was opposed Friday by representatives of the press and other First Amendment advocates.
It’s the Nevada Assembly’s turn to be the grown-ups in Carson City when it decides whether to gut the anti-SLAPP law, which is meant to deter lawsuits filed to punish and silence critical commentary and investigative journalism.
A Republican-backed bill that would make sweeping changes to Nevada gun laws received a generally favorable reception Thursday in an Assembly committee after it was amended and passed by the state Senate.
With drought gripping Nevada and much of the West, the state’s top water official and a state senator said it’s time to inventory just how much water there is and who owns what.
Business groups that backed a bill changing Nevada’s overtime law balked Wednesday at a last-minute amendment added in the Senate to raise the minimum wage for some workers to $9 per hour.
A long-stalled bill that aims to combat human trafficking passed the Senate on Wednesday with the fingerprints of several Nevada lawmakers.