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Federal district Judge Robert Clive Jones appears at the Lloyd George U.S. Courthouse in Las Vegas in 2008. Nevada's most overturned federal judge - Robert Clive Jones - was overturned yet again in one case and removed from another because of his bias against the U.S. government.
Candidates for Nevada's 4th Congressional District shared their views on gun control and health care, and several opened up about being sexually harassed and losing family members, during a forum Tuesday night in Las Vegas. Five Democrats running for Nevada's 4th Congressional District, accountant Amy Vilela, state Sen. Pat Spearman, Nevada System of Higher Education Regent Allison Stephens, former U.S. Rep. Steven Horsford, Nevada System of Higher Education Regent Allison Stephens and Clark County principal John Anzalone, speak at a forum Tuesday held by NextGen America.
The House on Thursday approved an election-year bill to revive the mothballed nuclear waste dump at Nevada's Yucca Mountain despite opposition from home-state lawmakers. Supporters say the bill would help solve a nuclear-waste storage problem that has festered for more than three decades.
U.S. Sen. Dean Heller this week unveiled a "Juntos con Heller" campaign with a coalition of 254 Hispanic activists committed to helping the Republican win re-election. U.S. Sen. Dean Heller this week unveiled a "Juntos con Heller" campaign with a coalition of 254 Hispanic activists committed to helping the Republican win re-election.
Two months after the Republican Governors Association pledged to spend $3.3 million on TV ads to influence Nevada's gubernatorial race, the group reported a record-breaking fundraising haul this quarter. Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt announcing his bid for governor at Brady Industries's warehouse in Las Vegas, Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2017.
Democrat Rosen raised more than twice as much campaign cash as Nevada Republican Sen. Dean Heller ... /Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP). FILE - In this June 23, 2017, file photo, Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., attends a news conference at the Grant Sawyer State Office Building in Las Vegas.
A train returns to pick up attendees from an event hosted by the Nevada State Railroad Museum in Boulder City, Nevada on Friday, April 13, 2018. Andrea Cornejo Las Vegas Review-Journal @dreacornejo Gov. Brian Sandoval drives the final spike into a rail line that restores service between Boulder City and Henderson during an event hosted by the Nevada State Railroad Museum in Boulder City on Friday, April 13, 2018.
Citing federal tax cuts as the driving factor, Ely-based Prospector Hotel and Gambling Hall recently gave its employees a $500 bonus and raised starting wages to $12 per hour. Plain and simple, tax cuts are working and helping the economy in ways that Nevadans have never seen before.
Democratic mega-donor Tom Steyer's super PAC NextGen America says it plans to focus on the competitive races for governor and Congressional Districts 3 and 4, but will be specifically focused on ousting Nevada's incumbent Republican Sen. Dean Heller . Tom Steyer, founder of NextGen America, during a press conference on immigration at the Culinary Workers Union Local 226 in Las Vegas, on Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2017.
Nevada Treasurer and Republican gubernatorial candidate Dan Schwartz is under fire after he reportedly belittled an opponent's military experience. Nevada Treasurer Dan Schwartz speaks to media after announcing his campaign for Governor on at the Republican Men's Club monthly Luncheon at Cili Restaurant at Bali Hai Golf Course in Las Vegas, Tuesday, Sept.
His recommendations for infrastructure disappointed local officials across the nation, and his plan to revive Nevada's Yucca Mountain also received limited funds. Trump's plan calls for $1.5 trillion in infrastructure projects, with just $200 billion supplied by the federal government.
Today, the American Humanist Association Appignani Humanist Legal Center filed its opening appellate brief in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in its appeal from the U.S. District Court of Nevada's dismissal of their case filed on behalf of Humanist inmates in Nevada state prisons. The lawsuit, filed in October 2016, asserts that the Nevada Department of Corrections' refusal to allow Humanist inmates to study and discuss their shared convictions in a group setting while authorizing meetings for many faith groups of similar and smaller sizes violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment and Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Trying to further distinguish himself from Nevada Sen. Dean Heller, Republican primary challenger Danny Tarkanian is praising the Trump administration's effort to restart licensing of a nuclear waste dump outside Las Vegas. Long opposed by most Nevadans, Trump included the Yucca Mountain plan again in his second budget request to Congress on Monday.
A judge in Las Vegas on Monday dismissed criminal charges against a Nevada rancher and his sons accused of leading an armed uprising against federal authorities in 2014. Chief U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro signaled when she declared a mistrial last month that she might dismiss the case outright against 71-year-old Cliven Bundy, sons Ryan and Ammon Bundy, and Montana militia leader Ryan Payne.
This Nov. 14, 2016 file photo Rep.-elect Ruben Kihuen, D-Nev.,right, speaks with reporters as Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., left, listens on Capitol Hill in Washington. The chairman of the House Democrats' campaign committee called on Kihuen to step down after a report Friday, Dec. 1, 2017, that he allegedly sexually harassed his campaign's finance director.
A turf battle is being waged between House Republican policy makers and their purse-controlling colleagues over a perennial topic of fierce debate-storing nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain in Nevada. Rep. John Shimkus, a high-ranking Energy and Commerce Committee member, is aiming for a vote within weeks on his legislation to force federal action on Yucca, the remote site identified in law as the country's permanent repository but never used in part because of steadfast opposition from most Nevada politicians.
The Senate passed a major "tax reform bill" on Saturday morning, the likes of which haven't been seen since the Reagan era. This tax bill barely made it through.
The U.S. Armed Forces are doing work in Nevada that's critical to the defense and security of the nation and the state - training pilots, testing drones, fighting overseas remotely, storing munitions and helping battle fires, to name a handful.