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May 4, 2024

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  • Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump sits in the courtroom at his criminal trial at Manhattan state court in New York, Monday, April 22, 2024.
    Could Trump go to jail for next contempt charge?
    May 4, 2024
    By Harry Litman
    Judge Juan Merchan has, in his soft-spoken but hard-nosed way, told Donald Trump something no other court has over the course of his many civil and criminal cases: He’s down to his last chance ...
  • From left, Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. President and Chief Financial Officer Joe Berchtold, SeatGeek, Inc. Chief Executive Officer Jack Groetzinger, Jam Productions LLC Chief Executive Officer and President Jerry Mickelson, The James Madison Institute Senior Vice President Sal Nuzzo, American Antitrust Institute Vice President For Legal Advocacy Kathleen Bradish, and singer-songwriter Clyde Lawrence appear before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing to examine promoting competition and protecting consumers in live entertainment on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2023.
    Antitrust case against Live Nation and Ticketmaster is a tightrope act
    May 4, 2024
    By Jessica Towhey
    The Justice Department has opened an investigation into claims that Live Nation and Ticketmaster are violating antitrust laws and will be filing a lawsuit soon. Maybe. Justice won’t comment on an open investigation, but The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg have both ...
  • Jon Batiste performs during the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival on Friday, April 26, 2024, at the Fair Grounds Race Course in New Orleans.
    Genre-busting musician dares to try to heal nation’s divide
    May 4, 2024
    By Roy Johnson
    Born into a Louisiana family steeped in music, instruments were never far from reach. Jon Batiste picked up drumsticks and percussion and performed with the family band, had his own band by the age of 14. Yet as ...
  • Immunization funding is vital
    May 4, 2024
    By Priyambda Kumra, Las Vegas
    When is the last time you contacted your member of Congress, whether through email, phone or in person? It may seem intimidating, but the truth is they work for us ...
  • DMV aims for smooth transition
    May 4, 2024
    By Tonya Laney, Carson City
    At the Nevada DMV, we’ve recently heard lots of feedback about the decision to relocate the Henderson location. The new Silverado Ranch facility will still be equipped to handle all ...
  • Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump, left, embraces South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem at a campaign rally Saturday, March 16, 2024, in Vandalia, Ohio.
    Women of Trump’s GOP jockey to be the most macho
    May 3, 2024
    By Robin Abcarian
    Slaughtering wolves from helicopters? Castrating hogs? Shooting up Priuses with assault weapons? Murdering misbehaving puppies? Is this what it takes for a Republican woman to be a credible candidate for higher office? ...
  • Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump sits in Manhattan state court in New York, Monday, April 23, 2024.
    Our heroes often let us down
    May 3, 2024
    By Solomon Stevens
    Donald Trump is in court right now. But not everyone understands that this is not a “hush money” case. He isn’t charged with being unfaithful to his wife or even with paying a woman to keep quiet about his affair. He is charged with falsifying ...
  • Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor attends a panel discussion at the winter meeting of the National Governors Association, Friday, Feb. 23, 2024 in Washington.
    Calls from the left for Sotomayor to retire are absurd
    May 3, 2024
    By Stephen Carter
    The left’s absurd calls for Justice Sonia Sotomayor to step down so that President Joe Biden can name a younger replacement should be roundly condemned. To be sure, such pressure is an American tradition in the never-ending battle to “control” the Supreme Court. But the tactic is ...
  • Supreme Court endangers us all
    May 3, 2024
    By Dana Rideout, North Las Vegas
    There is a clear and present danger that our democracy is in jeopardy, a threat to America as we know it. The questions directed to the Justice Department attorney by ...
  • Biden stacking clean energy wins
    May 3, 2024
    By Rita Ransom, Las Vegas
    According to a report from the American Lung Association, nearly 40% of people in the U.S. — 131 million—live with unhealthy air pollution. Extreme heat, drought and ...
  • Civics education strengthens democracy
    May 2, 2024
    By Mary Smith
    A survey from the American Bar Association shows that most Americans are pessimistic about our nation’s democracy and are worried about the coming election. It is another reminder of the fragility of our democratic system at this ...
  • We pay a price for upper-class state legislators
    May 2, 2024
    By Jamelle Bouie
    There is a coordinated, nationwide effort to roll back child labor laws, part of a broader campaign to concentrate even more power into the hands of employers ...
  • Who’s to blame for gas prices?
    May 2, 2024
    By David Gilyan, Las Vegas
    Gas prices have risen since March 2020. It’s all President Joe Biden’s fault for halting drilling and I’m not voting for him ...
  • Palliative care is a worthy pursuit
    May 2, 2024
    By Deidra Hamilton, Las Vegas
    The Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act (PCHETA) is a bipartisan bill that aims to tackle some of the obstacles preventing patients from accessing palliative care, which aims to relieve suffering and ...
  • Yes, you should tip, but you shouldn’t have to tip
    Yes, you should tip, but you shouldn’t have to tip
    May 1, 2024
    By Scott Maxwell
    The topic of tipping has generated intense debate lately as an increasing number of restaurants impose “service charges” on top of regular bills ...
  • Republican U.S. Senatorial candidate Sam Brown, with his wife Amy Brown, signs in at the Secretary of State office as he arrives to files his paperwork to run for the Senate, Thursday, March 14, 2024, at the State Capitol in Carson City, Nev. Brown is seeking to replace incumbent U.S. Sen. Jacky Rosen.
    Nevada can’t abide a senator who wants state to be nuclear waste dump
    May 1, 2024
    The federal government’s cavalier attitude toward the safe disposal of high-level nuclear waste created the current untenable situation in which an estimated 90,000 metric tons of nuclear waste are being stored ...
  • Arizona Senate candidate, Republican Kari Lake, speaks during a rally in Cave Creek, Ariz., on March. 14, 2024. A handful of Arizona Republican legislators looking to overturn a 160-year-old state law that bans nearly all abortions have a new high-profile supporter: Kari Lake, a prominent Senate candidate and a close ally of Donald Trump.
    Arizona’s indictment of Trump allies follows a sordid, racist history
    May 1, 2024
    By LZ Granderson
    I’ve lived and/or worked in 10 states scattered across the country. Arizona was and remains the most complicated. The same state that elected the first openly gay mayor of a large U.S. city is also the state that did not want a federal holiday for Martin Luther King Jr. ...
  • Justices’ conduct is unbecoming
    May 1, 2024
    By Paul Gary, Las Vegas
    Am I the only one to notice just how rude the current Supreme Court justices are, how condescending, how unresponsive to the issue presented to them by both defense lawyers and ...
  • Life doesn’t stop for interest rates
    May 1, 2024
    By Michael Miner, Henderson
    Those who lived through the late ’70s and most of the ’80s will recall that during 1981, a 30-year mortgage rate for a new home skyrocketed to over 18% interest. Even people with good credit were ...
  • It’s not the payout, it’s the cover-up
    May 1, 2024
    By Carol Ann Kimble, Las Vegas
    Our nation’s highest court seems poised to offer guidance to the lower courts with a forthcoming ruling that a former president should be shielded from prosecution for official acts executed while in ...
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