Tag: Nevada

Biden Looks to Shore Up Latino Support in Visit to Nevada and Arizona

President Biden plans to visit Nevada and Arizona this week to champion his economic policies and attack Republicans on immigration and abortion as he seeks to shore up a crucial but wavering Latino electorate in the two battleground states. Mr. Biden will begin his trip on Tuesday in Reno, Nev., where he plans to promote […]

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“Oppenheimer,” My Uncle and the Secrets America Doesn’t Want to Tell

The darkened sky stretches over miles of desert sand as in the distance, from an illuminated scaffold, the object rises that will change the world. The first atomic test is the defining scene in “Oppenheimer,” which won seven Academy Awards on Sunday night, including best picture. The scene plays out over seven or so minutes […]

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Former Republican Candidate for U.S. House Is Charged With Murder

A Republican candidate who ran unsuccessfully for Congress in Nevada in 2020 with the backing of President Donald J. Trump surrendered to the police on Wednesday after he was charged with killing a man in Las Vegas last year, his lawyers said. The Las Vegas police issued an arrest warrant earlier on Wednesday for the […]

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Tumbleweeds Bury Utah’s Cars and Houses

On Saturday morning, residents of South Jordan, Utah, about 20 miles south of Salt Lake City, woke up to an astonishing sight. Thousands of tumbleweeds had blown into town and piled up against people’s homes overnight. Roads were blocked. Entire cars buried. In some cases, the tumbleweed jumbles reached the rooflines or upstairs balconies of […]

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Thousands Are Without Power in California and Nevada Amid Heavy Snowfall

Thousands of residents were left without power, and life came to a standstill for many in the Sierra Nevada region on Saturday after a winter storm dumped as much as two feet of snow overnight and created treacherous conditions. About 49,000 customers in Nevada and California were without electricity on Saturday morning, according to PowerOutage.us. […]

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Why Are White People Losing Their Minds Over a Black Business Fair in North Las Vegas?

A Black-owned business fair isn’t out of the ordinary, right? It’s Black History Month and businesses owned by Black entrepreneurs are historically underrepresented. A fair sounds like a perfect way to get the word out. Abbott Elementary Star Janelle James Reveals Who Inspired How She Plays Ava Off English This was the thinking of North […]

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Dipping Into the World’s Most Stunning Hot Springs

Some hot springs look like palaces, others like holes in the ground. Some feel like parties, others like prayers. There are hot baths within cities, on remote islands, in the desert, inside thick forests. Thermal water can be green, orange, blue, yellow or turquoise. It can be milky and opaque, silty with sediment or as […]

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Trump Wins Nevada’s Republican Caucuses

Former President Donald J. Trump glided to victory in Nevada’s Republican caucuses on Thursday, an outcome all but guaranteed because he was the only major candidate on the ballot. The Associated Press declared Mr. Trump the winner shortly after caucus sites closed in Nevada, giving him his fourth straight triumph in a Republican nominating contest […]

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Liberals Love Ranked-Choice Voting. Will Republicans?

Long viewed as an intriguing, if somewhat wonky, approach to conducting elections, ranked-choice voting — allowing voters to list candidates in order of preference instead of selecting just one — appears to be having a moment. Across the country, voters have adopted the system for municipal and county elections in each of the last 27 […]

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Latino Organizers Say Republicans Took a Risk in Ignoring Nevada

Four years ago, East Las Vegas, Nev., was a hub for presidential candidates engaging in heavy retail politicking. This year, it was anything but. In 2020, Democrats came to the state months before its first-in-the-West presidential caucuses: Joe Biden, then a former vice president, took selfies at a well-known taco spot; Senator Bernie Sanders of […]

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After Humiliating Result in Nevada, Haley Goes After Her Own Party

After perhaps her worst result in her Republican primary campaign — finishing second to “None of These Candidates” in Nevada’s primary, in which the front-runner, former President Donald J. Trump, was not competing — Nikki Haley unloaded on her own party, painting the day not as bad for her, but for Republicans. In a post […]

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Haley Outvoted in Nevada Primary, Trailing ‘None of These Candidates’

Nikki Haley was outvoted in Nevada’s Republican presidential primary by a “None of These Candidates” option on the ballot on Tuesday, according to The Associated Press, an embarrassment in a contest in which she faced no direct competition. The primary, which awards no delegates, had seemed like a foregone conclusion, as former President Donald J. […]

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Nevada’s Weird Election Week, and King Charles’s Cancer

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What to Watch in Nevada’s Weird Election Week

The bifurcated Republican presidential nomination contest that is unfolding this week in Nevada — a nonbinding primary on Tuesday and a caucus on Thursday — was orchestrated by Republican leaders to assure another delegate victory for Donald J. Trump in his march to the nomination. Nikki Haley, the former United Nations ambassador, is not even […]

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Everything You Need to Know About Nevada’s Primary and Caucus: The Run-Up

Listen to and follow ‘The Run-Up’Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Nevada is doing things differently this year. Or at least, it tried to. The first presidential nominating contest in the west takes place on Tuesday — and on Thursday. But that’s not what state officials were hoping would happen when they decided to move […]

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How Nevada Is Pushing to Generate Jobs Beyond the Casinos

Before the pandemic brought everyday life to a halt, Joe Kiele supported himself through the industry that dominates Nevada’s economy. He waited tables at a steakhouse inside a casino in Reno. Four years later, Mr. Kiele, 49, remains in Reno, yet he now spends his workday inside a factory. In place of worrying about the […]

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Why Are Americans Wary While the Economy Is Healthy? Look at Nevada.

Toni Irizarry recognizes that the economy has improved. Compared with the first wave of the pandemic, when Las Vegas went dark, and joblessness soared to levels not seen since the Great Depression, these are days of relative normalcy. Ms. Irizarry, 64, oversees a cafe at the Orleans Hotel and Casino, a property just off the […]

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At Las Vegas Rally, Biden Promotes Promises Kept

Fresh off an overwhelming victory in South Carolina’s Democratic primary, President Biden rallied supporters on Sunday in Nevada, saying that he had kept his promises to the Black and Hispanic voters who helped elect him. Mr. Biden spoke at a community center in the historic Westside neighborhood of Las Vegas, home to an African American […]

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Elon Musk’s $50 Billion Tesla Pay Was Struck Down. What Happens Next?

A Delaware judge’s decision to void the pay package that helped make Elon Musk the world’s richest person leaves Tesla’s board of directors with some difficult decisions to make. Chancellor Kathaleen St. J. McCormick of the Delaware Court of Chancery on Tuesday ordered Tesla to cancel stock options awarded to Mr. Musk, the electric car […]

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Voting Is Bewildering This Primary Season. That Worries Experts.

Democracy is messy, but usually not this messy. Take, for example, New Hampshire, where President Biden boycotted the primary election last Tuesday, after the state jumped the line in the Democratic Party’s new schedule to keep its first-in-the-nation primary status. Because it would have been embarrassing if Mr. Biden had lost there, a group of […]

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Trump Campaigns in Nevada, Where He Has Virtually No Rival

Former President Donald J. Trump, long the dominant front-runner in the Republican nominating contest, has made it clear for months that he is itching to focus on a likely general election matchup between him and President Biden. On Saturday, he’ll campaign in Nevada, a critical battleground state. But first he’ll need at least a handful […]

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Nevada’s Primary and Caucus: When Are They and How Do They Work?

As the calendar gets ready to flip to February and the remaining Republican presidential candidates move on from the early nominating states of Iowa and New Hampshire, it’s Nevada — not South Carolina — that’s next on the schedule. Former President Donald J. Trump will campaign in Las Vegas on Saturday, while Nikki Haley, the […]

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Colorado River States Are Racing to Agree on Cuts Before Inauguration Day

The states that rely on the Colorado River, which is shrinking because of climate change and overuse, are rushing to agree on a long-term deal to share the dwindling resource by the end of the year. They worry that a change in administrations after the election could set back talks. Negotiators are seeking an agreement […]

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Don’t Flee the American Southwest Just Yet

This summer, when the temperature hit 110 degrees Fahrenheit or above in Phoenix for 31 straight days, many were fretting about the Southwest’s prospects in the age of climate change. A writer for The Atlantic asked, “When Will the Southwest Become Unlivable?” The Washington Post wondered, “How Long Can We Keep Living in Hotboxes Like […]

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Republican ‘Fake Electors’ In Nevada Falsely Pledged Biden’s Electoral Votes To Trump, Indictments Charge

NewsOne Featured Video Attorney General of Nevada office building in Carson City, Nevada. | Source: Education Images / Getty Wouldn’t it be wild if it was Republicans who were responsible for the only actual election fraud that occurred during the 2020 presidential race? Donald Trump and all of the most prominent members of the GOP […]

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America’s first ​‘enhanced’ geothermal plant starts up

A next-generation geothermal plant backed by Google has started sending carbon-free electricity to the grid in Nevada, where the tech company operates some of its massive data centers. On Tuesday, Google and geothermal developer Fervo Energy said that electrons began flowing from the first-of-a-kind facility earlier this month. The 3.5-megawatt project, called Project Red, is […]

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Oops! Another State Is Investigating Trump’s Fake Elector Scheme

“We look forward to working with her and Speaker Johnson in the days ahead to advance social conservative values in this Congress,” FPA President Craig DeRoche said. The FPA actively promotes conversion therapy, which it describes as “basic talk therapy to resolve unwanted same-sex attraction.” The organization insists that conversion therapy is “nothing more than […]

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Trump Indictments Haven’t Sunk His Campaign, but a Conviction Might

For Donald J. Trump, a new set of New York Times/Siena College polls captures a stunning, seemingly contradictory picture. His 91 felony charges in four different jurisdictions have not significantly hurt him among voters in battleground states. Yet he remains weaker than at least one of his Republican rivals, and if he’s convicted and sentenced […]

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How To Have A Perfect Fall Day In Lake Tahoe, One Of America’s Great Adventure Spots

The Uproxx 2023 Fall Travel Hot List is live! Visit here for the full experience! I was searching the Uproxx archives the other day and was surprised to find that we don’t have much on Lake Tahoe. Home to the largest Alpine lake in North America – reaching a depth of 1,645 feet and spanning […]

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DeSantis Will Participate in Nevada Caucuses Despite Criticizing Them

Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida plans to participate in the Nevada Republican Party caucuses, his campaign said on Sunday, taking part in a system that he and his rivals have said was designed to benefit former President Donald J. Trump. Mr. DeSantis’s team had not said previously whether he would take part in the party’s […]

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Get Ready for the ‘Ring of Fire’ Solar Eclipse This Saturday

Millions of people across the Americas are preparing for an experience like no other on Saturday. The moon will interrupt the sun, casting a shadowy veil from Oregon to Brazil during an annular solar eclipse. This weekend’s astronomical marvel is set to swoop over the Western United States, through the Yucatán Peninsula and across many […]

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