President Donald Trump said Sunday he will move to close Washington’s Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for two years starting in July for construction.
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Top Justice Department official plays down chance for charges arising from Epstein files revelations
Department officials said over the summer that a review of Epstein-related records did not establish a basis for new criminal investigations.
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.
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.
Republican lawmakers made it clear in the first week of the 2015 Nevada legislative session that there is a new sheriff in town.
Nevada Sen. Debbie Smith was awake, talking and eating Saturday at a Houston hospital, one day after undergoing surgery for a brain tumor.
A panel of lawmakers spent Friday afternoon learning about Nevada’s live entertainment tax, a levy that generates more than $150 million a year but is filled with loopholes.
A bill that would exempt school and university construction projects from Nevada’s prevailing wage law was passed by a Senate committee Friday, just two days after a contentious hearing.
Two gun-related bills, including a measure that would do away with a handgun registration requirement in Clark County, were introduced Friday in the Assembly.
The Nevada Senate on Thursday appointed alternates to three committees while Sen. Debbie Smith undergoes treatment for a brain tumor.
Republican Assemblyman Chris Edwards, the possible victim of an alleged extortion attempt, is facing the potential prospect of a recall launched by Mesquite residents.
A bill that would expand the types of health professionals who can initiate involuntary commitments and identify those deemed not a danger and eligible for release would help alleviate overcrowding at hospital emergency rooms, a state health official told Nevada legislators Wednesday.
A lot of bipartisan support was expressed at a legislative hearing Wednesday for a bill that would expand rollover bond authority for local school construction without raising property taxes, but provisions in Senate Bill 119 that would exempt school and university projects from Nevada’s prevailing wage law were a “poison pill” for many Democrats and labor groups.
Gun owners packed an Assembly hearing Wednesday to support a bill that would allow people to lock their weapons in a vehicle on school grounds.