Las Vegas Sun

April 26, 2024

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  • Rate changes are looming: Follow long-term game plan for winning capital decisions
    While basketball fans everywhere are following NBA schedules, business owners are tracking the 2024 Fed meeting schedule.
  • Nevadans lead the charge against antisemitism
    Nevadans lead the charge against antisemitism
    This bill simply says that the United States will adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism for the purposes of the federal anti-discrimination laws ...
  • Hush money trial is already not a good look for candidate Trump
    Whenever he enters or leaves the Manhattan courtroom in the case of People of New York State vs. Donald J. Trump, defendant Trump makes a beeline for the cameras, to rant about the goings-on. But to ...
  • Amanda Zurawski, left, who developed sepsis and nearly died after being refused an abortion when her water broke at 18 weeks, and Samantha Casiano, who was forced to carry a nonviable pregnancy to term and gave birth to a baby who died four hours after birth, right, wait to talk to the media outside the Travis County Courthouse, Wednesday, July 19, 2023, in Austin, Texas. A Texas judge heard testimony from women who say they were told they could not end their pregnancies in Texas even though their lives and health were in danger.
    Decisions about pregnancy should not be made by courts
    The U.S. Supreme Court is once again taking up abortion, this time in a case deciding whether state-level abortion bans can override federal protections for pregnant people and stop doctors from providing life-saving emergency medical care ...
  • Guest Column: Stakes of election could not be higher for Black women in Nevada
    Guest Column: Stakes of election could not be higher for Black women in Nevada
    This past week was Black Maternal Health Week, a time to highlight the importance of Black maternal health. We are in a maternal health crisis in this country and in Nevada. Black women are three times more likely to die from pregnancy-related complications than ...
  • Iowa guard Caitlin Clark walks to the bench during the second half of the Final Four college basketball championship game against South Carolina in the women's NCAA Tournament, Sunday, April 7, 2024, in Cleveland. South Carolina won 87-75.
    Misplaced outrage over WNBA contract should spark change
    America’s gender pay gap is real, extremely real. Women with full-time wages and salaries earned 83.6% of what men did in 2023, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Now, the world is losing its mind over WNBA No. 1 draft pick Caitlin Clark’s rookie contract: four years totaling $338,056 — about $84,500 annually ...
  • No one likes this kind of surprise
    Clinical lab tests are at the top of the chart when it comes to consumers’ ongoing concerns about surprise bills, according to some industry reports ...
  • RFK Jr., like Nader, would help the Republican presidential candidate
    On “Let’s Make a Deal,” either a dream vacation or a worthless “zonk” might be behind Door No. 3. But in November ...
  • A cancer survivor’s advice: Research, persistence and second opinions
    In the fall of 2022, Robin Clough and Dr. Gene Dorio were going about their lives as they had for many years, serving older adults in Southern California. Clough was busy with her work as an administrator at the local senior center while Dorio, a house-call geriatrician ...
  • Group of school children singing in choir together.
    Just say no to Christian chaplains in public schools
    There is a growing movement to install Christian chaplains in public schools. The Washington Post reports that bills are pending in nine states, have passed in one legislative chamber in three states, and Florida has a bill waiting for the governor’s signature. This is clearly unconstitutional; it is bad for ...
  • How can evangelicals tolerate Trump?
    At the 2016 Republican National Convention, when I told Donald Trump’s “God whisperer” Paula White that he referred to her as his pastor, she said she was his spiritual adviser — as if that were some sort of “get out of jail free” card for her. And yet White worked hard in our conversation to convince me that ...
  • A battery of Israel's Iron Dome defense missile system, deployed to intercept rockets, sits in Ashkelon, southern Israel, Aug. 7, 2022. Israel is vowing to retaliate against Iran, risking further expanding the shadow war between the two foes into a direct conflict after an Iranian attack over the weekend sent hundreds of drones and missiles toward Israel.
    History foretells Israeli response to Iran attack
    Israel needs to strike back — hard! Whatever a few countries and the unknowledgeable and gullible left in the United States say about Israel’s right to defend itself against those who would ...
  • One murder changed our view of domestic violence
    Weeks before she was slashed to death outside her Brentwood condo in 1994, O.J. Simpson’s ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, had predicted her own death ...
  • How to create a secure supply chain for rare earth elements
    China’s strong hold on the supply chain for rare earth elements is well known. Beyond stating that we need to shift our reliance on China and begin building robust domestic supply chains, what are the tangible, actionable steps that will get us there? ...
  • Trump’s big lie only hurt himself
    Donald Trump’s takeover of the Republican Party has eviscerated the mail-in voting advantage party leaders spent two decades developing.
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