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March 29, 2024

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  • Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), joined by Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) and Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, on Oct. 10, 2018. The race to replace McConnell between Cornyn and Thune is a throwback to an earlier era.
    New Senate leadership tussle is a throwback to the old days
    When Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., the longest-serving Senate leader, decided to step aside from his leadership role at the end of the year, it signaled the turning of a new page in the chamber.
  • A rainbow over San Francisco following heavy rains on Feb. 5, 2024. Before the state’s rainy season officially ends on Sunday, March 31, 2024, another storm is headed for the California coast.
    Just how wet has California’s rainy season been?
    On Sunday, California’s rainy season officially comes to an end.
  • Biden administration restores wildlife protections weakened under Trump
    After three years of planning and navigating the slow bureaucracy of federal rule-making, the Biden administration is restoring a series of protections for imperiled animals and plants that had been loosened under President Donald Trump.
  • Orepa and Kaino Tauiliili are seen in this family photo. Kaino died in 2021 from COVID-19; Orepa died earlier this month.
    Chaparral senior finds solace on volleyball court amid great personal loss
    Ioane Tauiliili nearly cried when seeing the support from friends at the Chaparral High School volleyball match. He also nearly cried when he glanced over to the spot where his mom always sat in the bleachers and realized she wasn’t there ...
  • Offices for the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department are seen on July 16, 2022. The department was involved in at least eight non-shooting deaths during police encounters from 2012-2021, according to an investigation by The Associated Press and the Howard Centers for Investigative Journalism. Despite extensive police use-of-force data on its website, the department does not publicly report on the number of in-custody, non-shooting deaths.
    Nonshooting deaths involving Las Vegas police often overlooked
    When a Las Vegas police officer shoots and kills someone, the death sparks a clear review process: from providing information to the public to evaluating whether policies should be changed ...
  • Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., responds to a question from a reporter after touring the UNLV School of Nursing Clinical Simulation Center Thursday, March 28, 2024. Rosen is promoting her bipartisan Train More Nurses Act that was recently passed by the U.S. Senate.
    Congress can show commitment to veterans by following Rosen’s lead
    Kudos to Nevada’s own U.S. Sen. Jacky Rosen, who this week introduced the Veterans Assistance Helpline Act. The bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to permanently maintain a toll-free telephone help line that connects military veterans ...
  • Beneficiaries owe reparations
    I found Rebecca Clarren’s March 24 guest column, “We now know that free land wasn’t free,” an interesting and historical perspective about parcels of land she claims her Jewish ancestors acquired in South Dakota over 100 years ago ...
  • Former President Donald Trump’s scheme soaks donors
    Former President Donald Trump has always preferred to live off someone else’s money. He’s proud of it. He’s bragged about using clever schemes to avoid paying taxes, which shifts the tax burden to the rest of us ...
  • Starve liars of any attention
    Why do the media continue to give a lying, cheating, criminal oxygen? Cut him off and he will die like a weed ...
  • A diner checks her TikTok account at a restaurant in Washington, Sept. 9, 2022. The video social media app isn’t disappearing from smartphones any time soon. The legislative process is still in its early stages after the House’s passage of a bill mandating a sale by the app’s Chinese owner, ByteDance, or be banned.
    Georgia joins states seeking parental permission before children join social media
    Georgia could join other states in requiring children younger than 16 to have their parents’ explicit permission to create social media accounts.
  • A person holds up a sign reading, "Trans People Belong in Alabama," during a rally outside the Alabama Statehouse in Montgomery, Ala., on International Transgender Day of Visibility, March 31, 2023. Sunday, March 31, 2024 is International Transgender Day of Visibility, a day full of events around the world to bring attention to a population that's often ignored or disparaged or victimized.
    What to know about Day of Visibility, designed to show the world 'trans joy'
    Sunday is International Transgender Day of Visibility, observed around the world to bring attention to a population that's often ignored, disparaged or victimized.
  • In this photo provided by The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), new weapon detectors that can be deployed at subway entrances are displayed during a news conference in New York, March 28, 2024. New York City officials announced a pilot program on Thursday to deploy portable gun scanners in the subway system, part of an effort to deter violence underground and to make the system feel safer.
    NYC will try gun scanners in subway system in effort to deter violence underground
    New York City officials announced a pilot program on Thursday to deploy portable gun scanners in the subway system, part of an effort to deter violence underground and to make the system feel safer.
  • This image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows Godzilla, left, and Kong in a scene from "Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire."
    In ‘Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire,’ the Titans are the stars
    There was no question who the stars were on “Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire." It wasn’t Rebecca Hall, Brian Tyree Henry, Dan Stevens or any of the humans. As actors have known since the early days of cinema, the star is the one with their character’s name in the title, even if in this case they never actually, technically, came to set. “They are the stars of the movie,” Hall told The Associated Press. “We’re the scale.” Or, as Stevens put it: “We’re just the side show.” The film, in theaters everywhere March 29, is a sequel to “ ...
  • Fresh Dungeness crabs are displayed at Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco, Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024. The commercial Dungeness crab season in California will be curtailed to protect humpback whales from becoming entangled in trap and buoy lines, officials announced Thursday, March 28, 2024.
    California's commercial Dungeness crab season will end April 8 to protect whales
    The commercial Dungeness crab season in California will be curtailed to protect humpback whales from becoming entangled in trap and buoy lines, officials announced Thursday.
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