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Nevada GOP candidates stress urgency at annual Basque cookout

Aug 15, 2022

Standing in front of 1,500 Republicans at a rural ranch backdropped by the Sierra Nevada mountains, Nevada’s Republican governor candidate Joe Lombardo referenced the “elephant in the room” without naming him

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Two people have died amid ‘restless’ monsoon-season flooding in Las Vegas

Aug 15, 2022

The most “restless” summer monsoon season in a decade became deadly Thursday, as intense lightning and thunderstorms flooded parts of southern Nevada and a leaky ceiling forced table games to stop at one Las Vegas Strip casino.

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Clark County School District confirms 1st case of monkeypox

Aug 15, 2022

Nevada’s largest school district has its first case of monkeypox.

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Aces wrap up No. 1 playoff seed with 109-100 win over Storm

Aug 15, 2022

Chelsea Gray had 33 points, seven rebounds and nine assists and Las Vegas wrapped up the best regular-season record in the WNBA, defeating Seattle 109-100 in a regular-season finale on Sunday.

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Kraft Heinz recalls contaminated Wild Cherry flavored Capri Sun pouches

Aug 15, 2022

The company says diluted cleaning solution used to clean food processing equipment in its factories got into the Capri Sun pouches.

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The documents the FBI searched in Mar-a-Lago don't hinge on being classified

Aug 15, 2022

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Glenn Gerstell, former general counsel of the National Security Agency, about how presidents can declassify documents.

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County and state officials exit the Santa Fe County Public Safety Building in New Mexico ahead of a news conference to update members of the media on the shooting accident on the set of the movie <em>Rust</em>.

Where the Rust shooting investigation stands, as the FBI refutes Alec Baldwin's story

Aug 15, 2022

A new FBI report challenges actor Alec Baldwin's claim that he didn't pull the trigger of a gun that fatally shot a crew member while on a film set.

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With new federal funding, scientists rebuild the field of gun violence research

Aug 15, 2022

Efforts to understand gun violence have received almost no funding in recent decades, a reality that's due to a specific amendment backed by the National Rifle Association.