The Daily Rundown - April 14, 2026
A magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck a rural part of Nevada east of the state's capital of Carson City on Monday. The temblor hit just before 6:30 p.m., the U.S. Geological Survey said. It was centered 12.9 miles (20.7 kilometers) east of the town of Silver Springs at a depth of 3.1 miles (5 kilometers). Video shot in the town of Fallon showed shattered glass and food scattered on the floor in the aisles of a grocery store.
Trina Enloe was sitting with one of her daughters as she did homework in their dining room when the quake hit. “You could hear the rumbling just coming before it even got to us,” Enloe said. The shaking continued for about a minute, she said.
The jolt knocked over some cast-iron candle holders, but Enloe didn't see any cracks or damage in her home in Fallon. The USGS said some residents in nearby communities reported strong to very strong shaking and light to moderate damage.
The Nevada Supreme Court has upheld the interim suspension of Pahrump Justice of the Peace Michele Fiore as she faces an investigation into complaints of possible misconduct. In a unanimous ruling, the court said her challenge is invalid since the Nevada Commission on Judicial Discipline is still investigating the complaints and has not imposed any official punishment or formal charges.
The commission initially suspended Fiore after a jury found her guilty of six counts of federal wire fraud in 2024, before she became a judge. The outspoken Republican received a presidential pardon for those convictions last year, but the commission says there are still allegations of misconduct while she was on the bench. Fiore is still receiving pay during the suspension and has filed for re-election.
Campaign finance records show millions pouring into the Nevada governor's race, the Nevada Independent reports. Governor Joe Lombardo has raised $3.7 million total between January and March for his re-election campaign. The amount includes money from Lombardo’s campaign and his political action committee. He currently has more than $14 million in total cash on hand. Aaron Ford raised $1.5 million during the same three months. Although lower, it's a new record for direct donations to a gubernatorial challenger.
With the federal tax filing deadline tomorrow, Nevada's Secretary of State is warning residents of fake tax preparers. The office says a so-called “ghost preparer” is a person who prepares taxes but doesn’t sign official forms, which violates Nevada law and IRS policy.
They also warn against anyone who promises unusually large refunds, charges fees based on a percentage of your refund or pressures you to sign quickly. According to the Secretary of State's Office, legitimate tax preparation businesses must clearly display a Nevada state business license and a current Document Preparation certificate.
It's often called the mind's eye. "I can look at an object in the world around me, but I can also close my eyes and imagine the object," says Varun Wadia, a brain scientist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and the California Institute of Technology.
That sort of visual imagination, Wadia says, is what allows most people to conjure the face of a loved one or navigate to work using a mental map. But its neural underpinnings were a mystery until Wadia and a team reported in the journal Science that imagined and perceived objects appear to activate the same neurons and use the same neural code.
"This has not been demonstrated before at the neural level," says Kalanit Grill-Spector, a psychology professor at Stanford University's Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute, who was not involved in the research. With these insights, she says, scientists are one step closer to building computer models that can simulate vision as well as vision disorders like macular degeneration. These models, in turn, could help researchers develop prosthetic devices to restore sight. Hear the full story by NPR's Jon Hamilton here.
The website Your AI Slop Bores Me takes its name from a meme people on social media use to criticize AI-generated content. The site — a fake AI chatbot — has only been around for about a month. But its creator, Mihir Maroju, said it's already received more than 25 million unique visitors and nearly 280 million total hits. "People are spending hours on the site," the 17-year-old high school graduate in Puducherry, India, said in an interview with NPR.
"I didn't really expect it to be so addictive." As with real AI chatbots like Gemini, Claude and ChatGPT, anyone can submit a request for an image or information by typing it into the youraislopbores.me interface. But in this case, the response doesn't come from an algorithm — just another human. Read the full story by NPR's Chloe Veltman here.
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