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The Nevada Independent

Nevada Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske’s office announced Friday evening that it has “yet to see any evidence of wide-spread fraud” in the state’s 2020 election, an indirect rebuke of unsupported claims of mass voter fraud made by President Donald Trump and Nevada Republicans.

Pahrump Valley Times

Nevada COVID-19 Response Director Caleb Cage and Julia Peek, deputy administrator of Community Health Services were joined by Jennifer Ott, director of the Nevada Department of Agriculture on Monday to provide updates on Nevada’s ongoing COVID-19 response and discuss NDA’s programs.

KPA

Reality check: COVID doesn’t care about you. It feels no compassion, no regret about the millions it’s killed. It isn’t concerned with the time of year, or the news cycle, or politics. It’s not taking a break for Christmas. It definitely doesn’t care that we’re all burnt out and tired of hearing about it.

K.L.A.S. T.V. 8 News Now

UMC is on track to surpass the distribution of 1,000 COVID-19 vaccinations to team members today. The hospital was the first in Nevada to give the vaccine to frontline healthcare workers in what was a historic moment on Monday.

K.L.A.S. T.V. 8 News Now

UMC is on track to surpass the distribution of 1,000 COVID-19 vaccinations to team members today. The hospital was the first in Nevada to give the vaccine to frontline healthcare workers in what was a historic moment on Monday.

K.V.V.U. T.V. Fox 5

After becoming the first hospital in the state to administer the COVID-19 vaccine to front-line health care workers Monday, University Medical Center expects to surpass 1,000 total vaccinations among its employees.

Newswise

The gift underneath the Christmas tree might have been delivered by Santa, but it’s possible it was inspired by Ryan.

The Nevada Independent

This spring, Olivia Rothe was putting the finishing touches on her undergraduate degree at Montana University. As the rapid spread of the coronavirus shuttered the country in a matter of weeks, she was planning her big move: She was going to law school, and she had picked UNLV’s Boyd School of Law.

Physics World

The Physics World 2020 Breakthrough of the Year goes to Elham Fadaly, Alain Dijkstra and Erik Bakkers at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands, Jens Renè Suckert at Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena in Germany and an international team for creating a silicon-based material with a direct band gap that emits light at wavelengths used for optical telecommunications.

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