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Nevada took a giant step closer to becoming home of the Raider Nation on Friday, after state lawmakers narrowly approved a hotel tax increase that would put $750 million in public money toward an NFL stadium partly funded by billionaire casino mogul Sheldon Adelson. A cadre of lobbyists for the project strained over the past week to overcome conservative anxiety over a tax increase and liberal objections to subsidizing one of the world's richest men, eventually securing the bare minimum number of Assembly votes to hit the required two-thirds majority.
A paralyzed man shared a handshake with President Barack Obama on Thursday by using a mind-controlled robotic arm that, in a first for medical research, is helping to restore his sense of touch. Obama fist-bumped Nathan Copeland's robotic hand, and tiny chips implanted in Copeland's brain let him use his thoughts to move the Star Trek-looking metal arm attached to his wheelchair - and also let him feel subtle pressure in his own fingers when the artificial ones were touched.
An informational brochure will be available to homeowners and camp owners on False River during the Friday-through-Sunday run of the Harvest Festival in New Roads. The brochure, as stated by the state Department of Natural Resources release, can help property owners "with ways to help control shoreline erosion as part of the False River Ecosystem Restoration Project.
Captains of the San Francisco 49ers and the Dallas Cowboys stand at midfield for the coin flip prior to a game in Santa Clara, California, on Oct. 2, 2016 TV networks are giving away more commercial time this NFL season than a year ago to make up for one of the worst ratings declines in a decade, a rare sign of weakness for the biggest draw on television. In September, as the presidential election diverted viewers to cable news outlets, viewership of the NFL's prime-time games dropped 14 percent from a year earlier among the coveted 18-to-49-year-old demographic, according to a Bloomberg Intelligence analysis of Nielsen data.
Democrats outnumber registered Republicans by more than a half-million voters. Yet the GOP has controlled the General Assembly for six years - with supermajorities in both chambers most of that time - and has pushed through a conservative agenda that has slashed taxes, redrawn voting districts and even banned the removal of Confederate monuments without legislative approval.
17, 2016 file photo shows LSU head coach Les Miles watching from the sideline in the second half of an NCAA college football game against Mississippi State in Baton Rouge, La.
4, 2004 file photo, Penn State coach Joe Paterno leads his team onto the field before an NCAA college football game against Akron in State College, Pa. As Penn State's athletic department finalizes... .
A Michigan school superintendent is apologizing after students at a football game were seen waving flags that some attendees found to be offensive. During the game between Ottawa Hills High School and Forest Hills Central High School on Friday, Forest Hills students were photographed waving two flags: one a dark blue banner with the Donald Trump campaign logo splashed across the front and the other the original 13-star Betsy Ross flag.
Donald Trump says he was bothered by the lack of racial diversity at the Republican Nation Convention - and again pushed back against critics who call him racist. "I'm the least racist person that you've ever met," he told Bishop Wayne T. Jackson in an interview that aired Wednesday night.
He complimented the exhibits, saw the Vince Lombardi trophy that is handed out to the Super Bowl champions, marveled at the 303 busts of Hall of Famers and noted that he recently spoke to future inductee Tom Brady. Trump once owned a team in the now defunct USFL and was part of an anti-trust suit brought by that league against the NFL.
Wikipedia explains the term : "The English colloquialisms such as 'turn out to be a pig in a poke' or 'buy a pig in a poke' means that something is sold or bought without the buyer knowing its true nature or value, especially when buying without inspecting the item beforehand. Last Tuesday evening, the Lompoc city manager provided the council with his monthly update on the status of the Motorsports Park project; it wasn't very encouraging.
" For weeks, Hillary Clinton dismissed questions about her health as little more than a conspiracy theory, part of a "wacky strategy" cooked up by rival Donald Trump as he embraced an "alternative reality." Those concerns are now unavoidable, made real by Clinton's abrupt departure Sunday from a 9/11 anniversary ceremony and a video showing the Democratic nominee staggering and eventually slumping forward before being held up by three people as she was helped into a van.
U.S. Senator Chris Murphy , left, walks with U.S. Representative Jim Himes on West Avenue before entering Tilley Pond Park, Darien, Conn., Friday night, Sept. 2, 2016.
As voters around the country decided the fates of Sens. Marco Rubio and John McCain and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schulz, at least a few observers focused on the primary for Jacksonville's elected prosecutor . "Prosecutors possess much of the power to end mass incarceration and to make our criminal justice system smarter and more just," Legend said.
Fighting for the people of South Carolina, not for an ideology, is what Democrat Fran Person says he will do if elected to the US House of Representatives Fifth District seat. Person brought his campaign for the Fifth District seat to the City of Union Municipal Building where he addressed members of the Union County Democratic Party Monday night.
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