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New clean energy funding to make Nevada’s air cleaner and communities safer, advocates say
More than $150 million in recently announced federal funding will help make solar energy more accessible for low-income and disadvantaged communities in Nevada as part of an effort to boost widespread adoption of clean energy.
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Fears about far-right future of Supreme Court grow amid Alito flag controversy
Advocacy groups and lawmakers worry that unchecked bias and a potential second Trump term could greenlight more Supreme Court decisions aligned with far-right interests.
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Sam Brown walks back 2022 comments supporting Yucca Mountain
In a social media post, retired US Army Capt. Sam Brown stated he’s spoken with engineers and experts about the Yucca project over the last month and that ‘it is abundantly clear that the project is dead.’ The frontrunner for the Republican nomination to challenge Nevada Democratic US Sen. Jacky Rosen said he no longer…
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Abortion and birth control could be restricted further if Trump wins, advocates warn
During an event in Las Vegas, two women from states with near-total bans on abortion opened up about their struggle to find treatment in a post-Roe world. In 2022, Kaitlyn Joshua knew something was wrong just a few weeks into the pregnancy of what would have been her and her husband’s second child. Joshua, a…
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Candidato republicano al Congreso de Nevada apunta a la ciudadanía por nacimiento
el ex alcalde de North Las Vegas, John Lee, sugirió, entre otras cosas, que se debería prohibir a los inmigrantes indocumentados poseer propiedades.
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Senate Democrats will hold a vote on birth control protections in June
The Right to Contraception Act would protect access to birth control nationwide as many reproductive rights advocates worry that contraceptive access will be Republicans’ next target after they successfully helped overturn Roe v. Wade.
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Sen. Jacky Rosen backs bill to ban lawmakers from stock trading
While this is the latest effort to bar members of Congress from trading stocks while in office, similar efforts in the past have stalled. Nevada Democratic US Sen. Jacky Rosen has become the latest federal lawmaker to announce their support for legislation that would ban members of Congress and their immediate families from trading on…
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Nevada Republican congressional candidate takes aim at birthright citizenship
During an interview with a local conservative radio station, ex-North Las Vegas Mayor John Lee suggested, among other things, that undocumented immigrants should be barred from owning property. The former mayor of North Las Vegas running to unseat Nevada US Rep. Steven Horsford suggested to a local conservative radio station last month that he favors…
