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Las Vegas Sun

With state and local leaders at his side, Gov. Steve Sisolak appeared in Las Vegas two months ago to announce a philanthropic partnership to develop a medical education building for UNLV.

KTNV-TV: ABC 13

For the first time in the city’s history, two women will become deputy fire chiefs with Las Vegas Fire and Rescue, the department announced on Wednesday.

NBC News

It's November, 1996, and I'm 13 years old. My father and I are sitting court-side at the Los Angeles Forum as the Lakers take position.

Medium

Everyone knew the question of “electability” was going to come up at last night’s Democratic presidential debate.

Canada's National Observer

Pope Francis is not your average pope. He’s weighed in on prison reform and women’s rights, and he wrote a whole encyclical on climate change in 2015. On Friday, at the 20th World Congress of the International Association of Penal Law, Francis waded into the climate change debate again with an unusual idea: perhaps environmental destruction should be classified as an official sin.

Marvel

“It was a real feast or famine for me this year,” sums up writer Kelly Thompson when thinking back on 2019, a 12-month period in which her workload went from several projects across multiple lines of characters to the solo adventures of a single Avenger and back again.

Yahoo!

More and more people are questioning the value that social media brings into their lives, with many users choosing to disconnect and trading in blue screens for blue skies, or at least, a life less dependent on checking notifications every three seconds.

Hello Giggles

Signing off from social media due to depression, stress, and anxiety is common, says University of Nevada, Las Vegas communication studies professor and social media researcher Natalie Pennington.

MinnPost

The suburban voters who helped Democrats gain seats in Minnesota two years ago might be holding the line again as the presidential election nears.

Las Vegas Sun

A leading Southern Nevada public policy researcher will serve in a newly endowed position at UNLV that was funded by the largest donation of its type in state history.

Rewire

Are you one of the millions of younger people quitting Facebook? For more than a decade, we’ve used Facebook as a way to keep up with friends.