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Sisolak’s top lawyer steps down

J. Brin Gibson, general counsel to Gov. Steve Sisolak, is stepping down to a take a job in the private sector after serving for a year in the governor’s office.

 
Trump administration OKs new water rule

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler announced a new rule on navigable waters that farmers and real estate developers found burdensome, but environmental groups supported.

US proposes visa rules aimed to restrict ‘birth tourism’

The Trump administration on Thursday published new visa rules aimed at restricting “birth tourism,” in which women travel to the United States to give birth so their children can have U.S. citizenship.

‘Sopranos’ actress confronts Weinstein about alleged rape from stand

For more than a quarter-century, Annabella Sciorra told only few friends that the once-revered producer had pinned her to a bed and violated her, until she came forward publicly in 2017.

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3 Americans die after firefighting plane crashes in Australia

Three people died Thursday when a C-130 Hercules aerial water tanker crashed while battling wildfires in the Snowy Monaro region of Australia’s southern New South Wales state, officials said.

1 dead, 7 wounded in downtown Seattle shooting

Seattle Fire Chief Harold Scoggins said authorities began receiving calls at about 5 p.m. Wednesday of multiple gunshot victims.

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