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Senators grill social media companies on Russian interference

Lawmakers demanded answers Wednesday from leading social media companies about why they haven’t done more to combat Russian interference on their sites, and said congressional action might be needed in response to what one Democrat called “the start of cyberwarfare” against American democracy.

Conservationists fight Ruby Mountains oil development

Conservationists are bashing the latest move to open more federal land in Nevada to oil exploration, this time in the Ruby Mountains of Elko County.

 
Facebook says Russian ads seen by as many as 126M users

Major tech companies plan to tell Congress Tuesday that they have found additional evidence of Russian activity on their services surrounding the 2016 U.S. election.

 
Saudi Arabia denies women rights but makes robot a citizen

Until recently, the most famous thing that Sophia the robot had ever done was beat Jimmy Fallon a little too easily in a nationally televised game of rock-paper-scissors.

Stephen Hawking thesis crashes Cambridge University website

As soon as physicist Stephen Hawking’s doctoral thesis became available online, thousands of people immediately downloaded it – so much demand that it crashed the website that Cambridge University posted it on.

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Butterfly prompts Girl Scouts to close camp near Las Vegas

The Girl Scouts of Southern Nevada is abandoning its longtime camp in the mountains west of Las Vegas, in part because of restrictions placed on the property to protect the endangered Mount Charleston blue butterfly.

Moose making themselves at home in Northern Nevada

The Silver State now appears to be home to a resident population of moose, which have been sighted and photographed with increasing regularity in northern Elko and Humboldt counties.

The world’s deadliest killer? Pollution, it’s not even close

Environmental pollution — from filthy air to contaminated water — is killing more people every year than all war and violence in the world. More than smoking, hunger or natural disasters. More than AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined.

Las Vegas lags in startup business growth, report says

A lot of new companies are getting started in Las Vegas, but they lag in how much and how fast they grow when compared to other metropolitan areas, a new study finds.

Crazy weather under watchful eye of next-generation satellite

Between the raging hurricanes and the massive wildfires, 2017 has been quite a year for weather in the United States. And watching it all unfold is a new, next-generation, multimillion-dollar satellite.

 
In Las Vegas, Al Gore says renewable energy economy ‘taking off’

The Strip was hit by “An Inconvenient Truth” Friday, as former Vice President Al Gore opened the National Clean Energy Conference in Las Vegas with an alarming vision of an unfolding global climate crisis.

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