President Joe Biden will welcome the Las Vegas Aces to the White House on May 9 to celebrate their championship season, according to the White House.
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Voter participation has ranged from around 17 percent to more than 30 percent over the years.
Republican Senate candidates facing off in the June 11 primary are staunch supporters for Israel, but few support sending aid to Ukraine.
Three of Nevada’s congressional members are born and raised in Nevada, while the other three moved to the Silver State. Here’s where your Nevada rep is from.
The Clark County School District is looking to make it easier to hire retired employees to fill “critical” vacant teaching, other jobs.
President Donald Trump’s Pentagon chief shot down his idea of using troops to quell protests across the United States, then reversed course on pulling part of the 82nd Airborne Division off standby in an extraordinary clash between the U.S. military and its commander in chief.
In an extraordinary rebuke, former defense secretary Jim Mattis on Wednesday denounced President Donald Trump’s heavy-handed use of military force to quell protests near the White House and said his former boss was setting up a “false conflict” between the military and civilian society.
One candidate encourages unity and understanding. The other urges a strong response to protests. The partisan divide over civil unrest between the two parties is personified by Joe Biden and Donald Trump.
The City Council unanimously approved with conditions a plan to develop the Black Mountain Golf and Country Club. It comes back to council for final approval this month.
The former president drew parallels between the unrest sweeping American currently and protest movements of the 1960s.
More than 40 members of Congress have called for the establishment of a commission to study the effects of slavery, institutional racism and discrimination against people of color.
Nevada will commit roughly $221 million in mostly federal money through 2021 to rebuilding state protective equipment stockpiles, expanding COVID-19 testing and contact tracing, and preparing a mass vaccination program.
Esper said the Insurrection Act, which would allow Trump to use active-duty military for law enforcement in containing street protests, should be invoked in the United States “only in the most urgent and dire of situations.” He declared, “We are not in one of those situations now.”
The Transportation Department said it would suspend passenger flights of four Chinese airlines to and from the United States starting June 16.
Two Southern Nevada governments on Wednesday followed different courses on a proposal to ban backpacks, purses, luggage and other containers that can conceal dangerous materials at protests.
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