Dec
2023
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Politics
Dec
2023
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Service members to get biggest pay raise in 20 years in bill heading to Biden’s desk
While the pay bump will affect the 12,273 active duty service members in Nevada, this year’s National Defense Authorization Act is just the latest example of the increasingly partisan landscape of modern American politics.
Dec
2023
13
Six Nevadans indicted for role in plot to overturn 2020 election
Following the 2020 election, Republicans in seven states attempted to overturn the election results and keep Trump in power by illegitimately pledging him their electoral votes.
Dec
2023
12
Nevada leads nation in clean energy investment, report finds
“Nevada is leading the way in clean energy, bringing in thousands of good-paying jobs and supporting working families throughout my state,” Nevada Senator Catherine Cortez Masto said in a statement in response to the report.
Dec
2023
12
Biden campaign blames Trump for growing anti-abortion extremism
In Missouri, Republicans have introduced bills to charge women who have abortions with murder, while in Texas, a mom was forced to flee the state to get an abortion in order to protect her own health—situations made possible by Donald Trump and the repeal of Roe v. Wade.
Dec
2023
8
VIDEO: Driver arrested after 2 troopers killed in Las Vegas freeway hit-and-run was impaired, police say
Two Nevada state troopers in Las Vegas who had stopped to help a driver on the state’s busiest freeway were killed in the pre-dawn hours Thursday when an impaired driver struck them, authorities said. Las Vegas police Undersheriff Andrew Walsh said at a mid-day...
Dec
2023
8
VIDEO: Dramático testimonio de una madre que buscaba a su hija en UNLV
@nevadannews Dramático testimonio de una madre que buscaba a su hija, luego de tiroteo en UNLV La estudiante de Artes, Carolyn Salvador Ávila fue una de las primeras 100 personas evacuadas del edificio aledaño a Frank and Estella Beam Hall (BEH), donde aconteció el...
Dec
2023
8
UNLV gunman was unemployed professor who had 150 rounds of ammunition and a target list, police say
A 67-year-old college professor who was denied jobs at various Nevada colleges and universities stuffed loaded handgun magazines into his waistband before walking into a University of Nevada, Las Vegas campus building and killing three faculty members, police said....
Dec
2023
7
To lower the cost of expensive drugs, Biden targets Big Pharma’s patents
Under a plan announced Thursday, the government would consider overriding the patent for high-priced drugs that have been developed with the help of taxpayer money and letting competitors make them in hopes of driving down the cost.
Dec
2023
7
Nevadans get relief as Biden cancels nearly $5 billion more in student debt
More than 11,000 Nevadans have had their student debt discharged or have been identified for debt relief due to the Biden administration's reforms of the student loan debt system.
