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They were locked up 17 years ago for a murder. L.A.’s new district attorney is setting them free
4 days, 12 hours ago

They were locked up 17 years ago for a murder. L.A.’s new district attorney is setting them free

LA Times  

After spending 17 years behind bars for a murder he did not commit, Lombardo Palacios walks out of the Los Angeles County courthouse a free man with his mother, Claudia Ortiz. In a dramatic courtroom scene that one wrongly convicted woman called “a Christmas miracle,” a Los Angeles County judge on Friday vacated the murder sentences of two people — …

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Nevada is not ready for Trump’s mass deportations
1 month, 1 week ago

Nevada is not ready for Trump’s mass deportations

Raw Story  

Nevada’s captains of industry and political leaders are doing little, if anything, to prepare for the potential economic hit as well as the human toll of President-elect Donald Trump’s vow to deport at least 11 million undocumented immigrants, including 189,000 who live in Nevada. “We’re going to fight like hell to protect our members, their families and this economy.” The …

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Claire Lombardo on her novel 'Same As It Ever Was'
6 months, 1 week ago

Claire Lombardo on her novel 'Same As It Ever Was'

NPR  

Claire Lombardo on her novel 'Same As It Ever Was' NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben talks with Claire Lombardo about the loneliness of motherhood, the complexity of female friendships, and her new novel, "Same As It Ever Was." Claire Lombardo's new novel, "Same As It Ever Was," is, in part, about a woman named Julia raising a child without a village. You …

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NPR staffers pick their favorite fiction reads of 2024
6 months, 1 week ago

NPR staffers pick their favorite fiction reads of 2024

NPR  

NPR staffers pick their favorite fiction reads of 2024 Alicia Zheng/NPR Even hardworking news journalists by day need a break from reality in their off hours. — Hafsa Fathima, production assistant, Pop Culture Happy Hour Purchase BookAnnie LeBlanc Is Not Dead Yet by Molly Morris close overlay Buy Featured Book Your purchase helps support NPR programming. — Hafsa Fathima, production …

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The best fiction books to read in 2024, from David Nicholls to Kiley Reid
6 months, 1 week ago

The best fiction books to read in 2024, from David Nicholls to Kiley Reid

The Independent  

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Nevada voter ID initiative can appear on 2024 ballot with enough signatures, state high court says
6 months, 4 weeks ago

Nevada voter ID initiative can appear on 2024 ballot with enough signatures, state high court says

Associated Press  

ELKO, Nev. — An initiative that would amend the Nevada Constitution to require that voters show photo identification at the polls can appear on the 2024 ballot as long as organizers collect enough signatures, the state Supreme Court ruled Friday. The initiative also calls for an extra layer of verification for mail ballots, such as the last four digits of …

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Longtime Burbank kindergarten teacher was killed by her son, police say
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Longtime Burbank kindergarten teacher was killed by her son, police say

LA Times  

Karyn Lombardo, left, at Bret Harte Elementary School in Burbank in 2019. A 25-year-old Burbank man has been charged with killing his mother, a longtime Burbank elementary school teacher, police said. Police officers and paramedics found Karyn Lombardo, 57, unconscious inside her home in the 800 block of North Avon Street about 10 p.m. Tuesday, the Burbank Police Department said …

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Trump promises ‘aggressive’ election interference in battleground states
8 months ago

Trump promises ‘aggressive’ election interference in battleground states

Raw Story  

Donald Trump and the Republican National Committee on Friday announced a “100,000 person strong” program designed to harass election officials and their employees and discredit democracy in Nevada and a dozen other states. With Friday’s RNC announcement, the de facto official position of the Republican Party in 2024 is that in 2020, in Nevada and several other states, every election …

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Reese Witherspoon’s Book Club pick announced for April
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Reese Witherspoon’s Book Club pick announced for April

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly newsletter for insider tips and product reviews from our shopping experts Sign up for our free IndyBest email Sign up for our free IndyBest email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The actor has been recommending books monthly since 2017, both to her 30.2 …

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Nevada GOP governor stands by Trump amid legal battles, distances himself from GOP ‘fake electors’
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Nevada GOP governor stands by Trump amid legal battles, distances himself from GOP ‘fake electors’

Associated Press  

RENO, Nev. — Nevada’s Republican governor showed his strongest support Wednesday for Donald Trump in his legal battles since the former president was first indicted for falsifying business records nearly a year ago. Lombardo campaigned with Trump but briefly distanced himself from the former president during a debate in Nevada’s general election, then called Trump “the greatest president” during a …

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Love them or loathe them, pinyon-juniper woodlands are a growing biofuel battleground
10 months, 1 week ago

Love them or loathe them, pinyon-juniper woodlands are a growing biofuel battleground

LA Times  

When Varlin Higbee eyes the scrubby forest of pinyon pines and juniper trees that fill the high desert outside this old Union Pacific Railroad town, there’s just one thought that crosses his mind: “They’re just a wildfire waiting to happen,” the Lincoln County commissioner says of the low, bushy trees. Lincoln County Commissioner Varlin Higbee, 63, in the rural eastern …

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Nevada’s Republican governor criticizes the state GOP holding a caucus despite a separate primary
1 year, 1 month ago

Nevada’s Republican governor criticizes the state GOP holding a caucus despite a separate primary

Associated Press  

RENO, Nev. — Nevada Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo ripped his state party’s plan to hold a caucus despite a primary election occurring two days prior, a split that some state GOP officials warn could confuse voters in a key early nomination state. Speaking on the “Nevada Newsmakers” podcast episode, which aired Tuesday, Lombardo echoed widespread concerns about the parallel election …

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How Nevada is normalizing its fake Trump electors
1 year, 2 months ago

How Nevada is normalizing its fake Trump electors

Raw Story  

Nevada’s fake electors were indispensable to Donald Trump’s plot to steal the 2020 presidential election and the accompanying assault on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. At one of those events, Aguilar said of his 2022 opponent, Jim Marchant, “He was out there peddling lies and misinformation to voters across the state and also across America, which was scary…What …

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Governor signs public funding bill for new A’s stadium in Vegas, growing global sports destination
1 year, 6 months ago

Governor signs public funding bill for new A’s stadium in Vegas, growing global sports destination

Associated Press  

RENO, Nev. — Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo signed into law Thursday a $380 million public financing package to help build a Major League Baseball stadium for the Oakland Athletics on the Las Vegas Strip as MLB’s commissioner outlined a months-long approval process for the A’s proposed move there. “Las Vegas’ position as a global sports destination is only growing, and …

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Nevada becomes latest to enhance penalties for election worker intimidation after statewide exodus
1 year, 6 months ago

Nevada becomes latest to enhance penalties for election worker intimidation after statewide exodus

Associated Press  

CARSON CITY, Nev. — Those who harass, intimidate or use force on election workers performing their duties in Nevada could soon face up to four years in prison under a new law signed by the Western swing state’s Republican governor on Tuesday. Threats and initimidation of election workers had ramped up significantly in Nevada and across the country amid falsehoods …

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Athletics and Nevada reach tentative agreement on move to Las Vegas
1 year, 7 months ago

Athletics and Nevada reach tentative agreement on move to Las Vegas

LA Times  

Fans in Oakland watch the 12th inning of a game between the Athletics and Arizona Diamondbacks on May 16. If the A’s proposed move to Las Vegas is finalized, the team could open next season in Nevada. Lombardo said the deal was crafted in “months of negotiations between the state, the county, and the A’s.” Bryce Harper, who grew up …

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Nevada governor’s support for ambitious bills is uncertain
1 year, 7 months ago

Nevada governor’s support for ambitious bills is uncertain

Associated Press  

CARSON CITY, Nev. — At the end of a hearing for a bill that would further expand coverage for gender-affirming medical care, transgender rights advocate Brooke Maylath shifted her focus from the majority-Democratic senators before her to the Republican governor who likely will decide the bill’s fate. “I’m not trying to give them a bill to veto just so I …

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Nevada battery recycler wins $2B loan from Energy Department
1 year, 10 months ago

Nevada battery recycler wins $2B loan from Energy Department

Associated Press  

MCCARRAN, Nev. — A Nevada company that recycles batteries for electric vehicles has won a $2 billion green energy loan from the Biden administration. Redwood Materials, a recycling venture founded by the former chief technology officer at Tesla Inc., secured the conditional loan from the Energy Department’s Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing program, which helped Tesla more than a decade ago. …

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Education spending, school choice to top Nevada Legislature
1 year, 10 months ago

Education spending, school choice to top Nevada Legislature

Associated Press  

CARSON CITY, Nev. — With a historic budget surplus and schools strapped for resources, Nevada’s biennial legislative session will feature proposals for unprecedented spending on public education and school choice measures. Lombardo’s two main proposals include creating the Office of School Choice and putting $50 million toward Opportunity Scholarships, a program passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature in 2015 that allows …

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Nevada governor touts education investment, suspends gas tax
1 year, 10 months ago

Nevada governor touts education investment, suspends gas tax

Associated Press  

CARSON CITY, Nev. — Nevada Gov. Lombardo proposed adding $313 million in what he announced as the “Nevada Way Fund,” another savings fund to be used for infrastructure and development projects once the traditional Rainy Day Fund reaches 25%. Nearly $730 million would be placed in an “Education Stabilization Account,” an emergency budget tailored toward education, similar to a rainy …

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Former Nevada prisons chief returning under Gov. Lombardo
1 year, 11 months ago

Former Nevada prisons chief returning under Gov. Lombardo

Associated Press  

LAS VEGAS — A former Nevada state prisons chief who left the position in 2019 is returning to the post under newly inaugurated Republican Gov. Nevada state prisons have been beset in recent months by inmate violence, staffing shortages, the escape in September of a man convicted of a 2007 bombing in a parking structure at a Las Vegas Strip …

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Nevada Gov. Lombardo stresses unity in inaugural address
1 year, 11 months ago

Nevada Gov. Lombardo stresses unity in inaugural address

Associated Press  

CARSON CITY, Nev. — Nevada’s Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo called for unity at his inauguration ceremony on Tuesday while still pushing for conservative ideals such as school choice and repealing some recent criminal justice reforms that he called “soft on crime.” In front of just over 700 people at the Carson City Community Center, statewide officials took their oaths of …

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‘Always have a knife with you’: Women and trans students fear harassment, hate at CSU campus
2 years ago

‘Always have a knife with you’: Women and trans students fear harassment, hate at CSU campus

LA Times  

The outrage and frustration had been building for years at California State University’s Maritime Academy, an elite training ground for students bound for work on the sea. They said the school improved the complaint reporting process by hiring two consultants, increased campuswide training on sexual harassment and how to report misconduct, hired a full-time advocate for victims, hosted campus forums …

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Trump-backed Vegas sheriff tops Democrat for Nevada governor
2 years, 1 month ago

Trump-backed Vegas sheriff tops Democrat for Nevada governor

Associated Press  

LAS VEGAS — Republican Joe Lombardo, a career police officer-turned-elected sheriff in Las Vegas who was endorsed by former President Donald Trump, has been elected governor in Nevada. Lombardo was the nonpartisan elected Clark County sheriff and head of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, the largest police agency in Nevada. Sisolak acknowledged in his statement the criticism he received …

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