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9 months, 21 days ago
(AP) A ruling today by the U.S. Supreme Court ending affirmative action, a decades-old norm intended to bolster the number of minority students accepted into universities, won’t change admission practice at UNLV, officials said. That’s because they don’t consider race when ...
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9 months, 28 days ago
(AP) WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled against the Navajo Nation on Thursday in a dispute involving water from the drought-stricken Colorado River. States that draw water from the river — Arizona, Nevada and Colorado — and water districts in California ...
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1 year ago
(AP) WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court seems inclined to side with the federal government and a group of states in a dispute with the Navajo Nation over water from the drought-stricken Colorado River. The high court was hearing arguments Monday in ...
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1 year, 11 months ago
(AP) Over the past 10 days, it seems every major news outlet in the country has weighed in on whether or not protesting outside of the homes of Supreme Court justices is legal. Yet very few of these analyses have discussed ...
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1 year, 11 months ago
(AP) Shanzeh Aslam thought she had met her prince charming nine years ago. Because she had limited health insurance and didn’t want to take hormonal birth control, she got pregnant. Then her partner became abusive. She was able to terminate that ...
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2 years, 11 months ago
(AP) WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is declining to take up a challenge to Maryland’s ban on bump stocks and other devices that make guns fire faster. The high court on Monday turned away a challenge to the ban, which took ...
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3 years, 2 months ago
(AP) RENO — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused a rural Nevada church’s request to enter a legal battle over the government’s authority to limit the size of religious gatherings amid the COVID-19 pandemic — after the church won an ...
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3 years, 5 months ago
(AP) WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans voted overwhelmingly Sunday to advance Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett toward final confirmation despite Democratic objections, just over a week before the presidential election. Barrett's confirmation on Monday was hardly in doubt, with majority Republicans ...
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3 years, 8 months ago
(AP) RENO — A rural church trying to persuade the U.S. Supreme Court to suspend Nevada’s 50-person cap on worship services is accusing Gov. Steve Sisolak of adding the church’s county to a list of those with elevated cases of COVID-19 ...
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3 years, 10 months ago
(AP) Nevada lawmakers and LGBT activists celebrated Monday's historic U.S. Supreme Court ruling that protects LGBT people from employment discrimination. The 6-3 decision means federal laws on sex discrimination also apply to LGBT workers. “As we celebrate Pride Month, it is ...
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