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A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent takes part in an early morning operation.
Erin Hooley
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AP
Mountain West News Bureau
As immigration enforcement expands nationwide, Native families say increased ICE activity is creating fear in their communities, even among U.S. citizens and tribal members.
The Meta Mesa Data Center's five-building campus is under construction in Mesa, Ariz., in 2023.
Eduardo Barraza
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Mountain West News Bureau
FILE - The Jeffrey Energy Center coal-fired power plant operates at sunset near Emmett, Kan., Jan. 3, 2026, in Topeka, Kan. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, file)
Charlie Riedel
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AP
Mountain West News Bureau
Kelvin Watson at the grand opening of the West Las Vegas Library
Courtesy The Library District
Accessibility and innovation — and opening the expansive new West Las Vegas Library — highlight the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District executive director's success.
Blind Boys of Alabama stand in red suit jackets.
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Cole Weber
Montreal Guitar Trio
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Vitor Munhoz

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Sammy Davis Jr. singing onstage at the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas, most likely in the 1960s.
UNLV Special Collections
Sammy Davis Jr. headlined the Las Vegas Strip but faced segregation, mob threats, and violence offstage. Part 1 of his Las Vegas story.
With smoke billowing from a wildfire on Mt. Charleston above the Spring Mountains, a wild burro pauses as it walks through Spring Mountain Ranch State Park, Wednesday, July 10, 2013, near Las Vegas. More than 270 additional firefighters arrived Tuesday to help battle the fire sparked by lightning July 1, bringing to 1,077 the number of people fighting the blaze about 25 miles northwest of downtown Las Vegas. Overall containment dropped from 15 percent to 10 percent as erratic gusts of wind pushed flames up canyons, down the mountain and across state Route 157. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
Julie Jacobson
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AP
An already vulnerable Nevada will be uniquely hurt by President Trump’s federal land protection rollbacks
Blaze new and old trails alike with Desert Companion's outdoor and recreation issue! Tag alongside five writers as they wax poetic about their favorite nature walks, meet the man better known as Cactus Joe, and catch up with Nevada politico Jon Ralston ahead of the release of his biography on the late Sen. Harry Reid. Plus, discover how one year of Trump has already changed Nevada.
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    Israel will begin a contentious land regulation process in a large part of the occupied West Bank, which could result in Israel gaining control over wide swaths of the area for future development.
  • NPR
    An Islamist party has become Bangladesh's main opposition for the first time in the country's history, challenging the old dynastic political system despite persistent concerns among critics about the party's policies on women.
  • NPR
    Lawmakers no closer to a deal as partial government shutdown continues, officials to meet for more talks as Ukraine war nears 4th anniversary, what is it about Olympics that gives athletes "the yips"?