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.
State Sen. Ruben Kihuen may have stated quite simply Wednesday why Nevada should adopt driving privilege cards for undocumented residents: Every state that has adopted them has shown a drop in accidents and a drop insurance premium costs.
Amanda Collins, who was raped at UNR in 2007, testified before an Assembly committee Wednesday in support of Assembly Bill 143, which would allow permit holders to carry their guns on campus.
Assembly Speaker Marilyn Kirkpatrick insisted Tuesday that police departments in Clark County specify how many additional officers they will hire before she backs a bill that could impose an additional quarter-cent “More Cops” sales tax.
A plan by state Senate Republicans to spend $600 million to $800 million more a year on education starting in 2015 might be derailed by a secretary of state’s legal opinion released Tuesday.
Rep. Steven Horsford told a joint session of the state Assembly and Senate on Tuesday that the sequester mandating across-the-board federal spending cuts is creating severe economic consequences for Nevada.
Ousted Nevada Assemblyman Steven Brooks pleaded not guilty Tuesday in San Bernardino County Superior Court in California to three felony charges and one misdemeanor in connection with a freeway chase Thursday night.
The letter sent to state employees from Gov. Brian Sandoval on Monday was not an April Fool’s joke. Sandoval announced that due to efficiencies and reduced costs expected in his proposed budget, he will seek to eliminate state worker furloughs beginning July 1, 2014.
CARSON CITY — The state Senate voted 17-4 Monday for a proposed constitutional amendment that would allow the Legislature, with voter approval, to set taxes on gold and other minerals.
At a hearing Friday on a bill to establish dispensaries for medical marijuana in Nevada, state Sen. Ruben Kihuen, D-Las Vegas, made it official: He did not bring back any samples from a Senate Judiciary Committee trip to Arizona last week to view the operation of a dispensary in Phoenix.
CARSON CITY — State legislators will reach the 60th day, or halfway point, of the 2013 legislative session on Thursday.