The Department of Homeland Security said Tuesday that it would allow more than 800 refugees to enter the U.S. this week, an announcement that comes amid anger and confusion following President Trump’s immigration order.
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The president of the University of Nevada, Reno is recommending that students and scholars from countries listed in the president’s order on immigration remain in the United States for at least the next four months.
In a break with his party’s traditional stance on gay rights, Republican U.S. President Donald Trump vowed on Tuesday to uphold protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people working for federal contractors.
Neil Gorsuch, Thomas Hardiman and William Pryor are the three federal appeals court judges who are seen as the leading candidates to be nominated by President Donald Trump to the Supreme Court
President Donald Trump’s order temporarily banning refugees and immigrants from seven mostly Muslim countries is playing well in Trump Country, those places that propelled him to the White House.
Sen. John McCain has emerged as President Donald Trump’s top Republican nemesis on Capitol Hill.
Accusing her of betrayal and insubordination, President Donald Trump on Monday fired Sally Yates, the acting attorney general of the United States and a Democratic appointee, after she publicly questioned the constitutionality of his controversial refugee and immigration ban and refused to defend it in court.
Four refugees approved for resettlement and due to arrive in the Las Vegas Valley in the next two weeks have had their flights canceled following President Donald Trump’s executive order freezing the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program, a representative of their sponsor organization said Monday.
Billionaire casino owner Steve Wynn will become finance chairman of the Republican National Committee at the behest of President Donald Trump. The RNC would not confirm reports by LifeZette and Fox News.
Two-thirds of the completed applications for the state’s Education Savings Account program come from households making less than $50,000 a year, data provided Monday by the state treasurer’s office shows.
A federal appeals court Monday revived a lawsuit filed by a Nevada inmate alleging excessive force by prison officers and assigned the case to a new judge, saying U.S. District Judge Robert Jones would have “substantial difficulty” putting previous expressed views out of his mind.
North Las Vegas Youth Legislature member Da’Vione Lomax isn’t old enough to vote, but she can still have her voice heard.
Samantha Ostrovsky got into in politics the same way many others do. She had connections.
Though they can’t vote yet, 15-year-old Olivia Yamamoto and 16-year-old Brooklyn Darmody still want their voices heard.
The White House clashed Monday with a large group of American diplomats who are voicing dissent with Donald Trump’s temporary travel ban on citizens from seven Muslim majority countries.
A recent Wall Street Journal poll of leading economists put the probability of the United States going into recession over the next 12 months at 63 percent. Conventional wisdom is that the Federal Reserve Bank will continue raising interest rates to combat stubborn high inflation, thereby slowing the economy and causing gross domestic product to […]
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