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Haiyun Jiang / New York Times

President Joe Biden is greeted by Mayor London Breed as he walks from Marine One in San Francisco, Calif., on Thursday, May 9, 2024. President Biden began a fund-raising swing through California and Washington on Friday, courting an elite subset of donors in a string of campaign events hosted by wealthy backers.

Biden campaign courts wealthy donors on West Coast fundraising trip

May 11, 2024 (2 a.m.)

By Zach Montague, The New York Times Company

President Joe Biden began a fundraising swing through California and Washington on Friday, courting an elite subset of donors in a string of campaign events hosted by wealthy backers.

Nevada GOP nominates indicted ‘fake electors’ for national convention

By Ayden Runnels

Five of the six Nevada Republican Party officials accused of submitting “fake elector” ballots in a scheme to swing the 2020 presidential election for Donald Trump will be delegates to this summer’s Republican National Convention; two of them have also been nominated to be among the party’s ...
Nevada Supreme Court dismisses teachers’ appeal of sickout injunction

By Hillary Davis

The Nevada Supreme Court won’t decide whether a lower court erred last year when it stepped in to stop large-scale sickouts by teachers during a labor dispute with ...
HUD acting secretary praises Las Vegas, Clark County for housing programs

By Grace Da Rocha

Affordable housing has been a focal point for President Joe Biden and his administration, with HUD instituting various programs to increase the number of new units built across the nation. But Todman, who has been in her position since March 22, said it’s not ...
Vice President Kamala Harris headed back to Las Vegas

By Las Vegas Sun Staff

Vice President Kamala Harris will be in Las Vegas on Saturday for “political events,” the White House said this morning. It will mark her fifth visit to Nevada this year and her ...
‘Latino Loud’ campaign looks to amplify Latino voices in Nevada elections

By Grace Da Rocha

Latino voters could change the tide of this year’s elections as a growing wave becomes eligible to vote, and local organizations are joining together to ensure that all of Nevada’s Latino voters ...
Biden cuts into Trump’s lead in Nevada, new poll finds

By Ray Brewer

A new poll conducted with 1,000 would-be voters in Nevada found what has been long suspected about November’s presidential race: President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are ...
Post-Roe challenges in focus as abortion rights advocates navigate the future in Nevada

By Ray Brewer

Fifteen percent of the women seeking abortion care in Las Vegas since the U.S. Supreme Court in 2022 reversed its ruling in the landmark Roe v. Wade case are from out of state, according to data from Planned Parenthood. And, Planned Parenthood says, many of those women are ...
EU ambassador stresses teamwork to build economy, fight climate change

By Katie Ann McCarver

Nevada is one of about a half-dozen states that Jovita Neliupšienė, the European Union’s ambassador to the United States, is visiting in the first few months of her tenure ...
Group recruiting military veterans as poll workers

By Ayden Runnels

National voting advocacy group Vet the Vote held an event today alongside state and Clark County officials to encourage veterans to become poll workers. Joined by Nevada Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar and ...
USPS commits to rerouting Reno-area mail despite bipartisan pushback and mail ballot concerns

By Gabe Stern, Associated Press

The USPS announced on Tuesday it will follow through with its plan to reroute Reno-area mail processing to Sacramento, a move that drew bipartisan ire from Nevada lawmakers ...
In Nevada GOP Senate primary, a long shot goes after the front-runner

By Kellen Browning, The New York Times Company

Nevada’s once-sleepy Republican primary for Senate, which has been dominated by Sam Brown, a U.S. Army veteran, was jolted to life in the past week, when a deep-pocketed rival took aim at the front-runner.
Nevada Supreme Court rulings hand setbacks to gun-right defenders and anti-abortion activists

By Scott Sonner, Associated Press

Nevada's Supreme Court upheld a state ban on ghost guns Thursday, overturning a lower court's ruling that sided with a gun manufacturer's argument that the 2021 law regulating ...
DA office won’t pursue charge against Clark County GOP chair

By Ayden Runnels

The chairman of the Clark County Republican Party isn’t being charged by the district attorney's office following a weekend arrest on suspicion of domestic battery, court records show.
‘It doesn’t have to be this way,’ vice president tells Las Vegas audience about gun violence

By Emma Brocato

Harris asked the crowd of high school students how many of them have had an active-shooter drill. Many raised their hands. “It doesn’t have to be this way,” she said in a somber voice ...
Las Vegas program seeks to prepare LGBTQ+ candidates for future runs

By Ray Brewer

A Las Vegas nonprofit is planning a summer leadership academy for political hopefuls from the LGBTQ+ community looking to launch a campaign …
Las Vegas businessman Bigelow co-chairs Florida fundraiser for Trump

By Associated Press

Donald Trump's campaign said it raised $50.5 million on Saturday, a staggering reported haul as his campaign works to catch up to the fundraising juggernaut of President Joe Biden and the Democratic Party ...
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