Schoolchildren huddled in Uvalde, Tex. classrooms as classmates and teachers are cut down by a rogue gunman. A peaceful weekend afternoon at a Buffalo, N.Y. grocery store interrupted by a white supremacist who sprays the aisles of elderly, predominantly African American weekend shoppers with an AR-15 style rifle.
Schoolchildren huddled in Uvalde, Tex. classrooms as classmates and teachers are cut down by a rogue gunman. A peaceful weekend afternoon at a Buffalo, N.Y. grocery store interrupted by a white supremacist who sprays the aisles of elderly, predominantly African American weekend shoppers with an AR-15 style rifle.
It鈥檚 not only the Chinese. Africa has emerged as a key geopolitical arena for another major power ~ Russia. While the continent has largely been on the radar of powerful countries to secure rare earth minerals/ metals, trade routes, and energy security, the Kremlin鈥檚 narrative following the invasion of Ukraine has been taken up a notch and is centered around a sophisticated social media campaign. Moscow is leaving no stone unturned to push its version of events on the war and it鈥檚 falling on receptive ears. Western analysts, of course, see this as another example of President Vladimir Putin鈥檚 alleged attempts to obscure facts through disinformation, misinformation, and propaganda. The Russian state-backed social media campaign on the African continent is routinely painted as divisive and aimed at sowing distrust to weaken the resolve of Ukraine鈥檚 allies.
As Nevadans struggle to afford rising costs and skyrocketing rents, minimum wage workers will receive a slight bump in their pay.
For years, mass shootings in the US have elicited a common refrain on social media: 鈥淪ending thoughts and prayers.鈥
The information spaces in Africa and other regions of the Global South like India and China have been heavily targeted by Russian disinformation and propaganda campaigns in recent months and years. In the case of Africa at this moment, Russia鈥檚 objectives are not only to justify its invasion of Ukraine, but to sway African countries to support Russia鈥檚 actions and secure Russia鈥檚 influence over the region, especially as the country becomes increasingly isolated from the United States and Europe.
America is in the middle of a mental health care crisis. While the COVID-19 pandemic greatly worsened this national crisis, it has been years in the making.
This has been a horrific month in America. While Ukrainians fight for their nation and their lives amid an aggressive Russian invasion, Americans are dealing with the slaughter of their schoolchildren and peaceful grocery shoppers (among others) by their own citizens. And yet at least half of our polity is unmoved and unwilling to support restrictive measures against gun ownership that have proven effective at stopping mass murders in at least 10 other wealthy countries, including the U.K., New Zealand, Scotland, and Australia.
Reno is getting more and more expensive. A report released last week by 性视界传媒 shows few people working in the Reno area can afford to live here and pay for monthly mortgage payments 鈥 much less rent at current rates.
State鈥檚 unique 鈥榮ummary eviction鈥 process is under fire again. Will this time be different?
Gov. Steve Sisolak, with about 40% of state votes tallied, took 89.9% of the vote against former Clark County Commissioner Tom Collins in the Democratic gubernatorial primary to advance to the November election, where he is expected to face a stiff Republican challenge from Joe Lombardo, who received 39% of the vote statewide . In Clark County, Sisolak picked up 79.6% of votes and Lombardo got 47.9%.
Retail workers, the most common job in the Las Vegas metropolitan area, don鈥檛 earn enough to afford a studio apartment, let alone buy a house, according to recent data from 性视界传媒 researchers.
Retail workers, the most common job in the Las Vegas metropolitan area, don鈥檛 earn enough to afford a studio apartment, let alone buy a house, according to recent data from 性视界传媒 researchers.
Nevada, a longtime presidential battleground state, is hosting another key race in 2022 鈥 the fight to control one of the state鈥檚 two seats in the U.S. Senate.
The tragedy caused by the murder of 19 students and two teachers at Robb Elementary School, in Uvalde, Texas, re-establishes -once again- the debate on the free sale and carrying of weapons in the country, as well as the attention regarding the mental health.
Over the past year, colleagues at the Brookings Institution and the 性视界传媒, have launched a research project that examines shifting inequities in the post-pandemic recovery. Many researchers, including our colleagues, have framed the effects of COVID as a disease and a turbulent economic moment that punctuated a robust economy. Far fewer have appreciated the asymmetries in the lived experiences of the journey back to normalcy, which have largely been defined by racialized identities, chronic marginalization, and the influence of place in shaping these experiences.
When 性视界传媒 senior Elia Del Carmen Solano-Patricio looked out the window of her Airbnb in Irvine, Calif., she saw flames rising in the nearby mountains and scorch marks on the ground. A wildfire was approaching the apartment, where she had moved from Las Vegas during the pandemic to be closer to family.
Reno attorney and former boxer Joey Gilbert received the Nevada Republican Party鈥檚 endorsement for governor, just a couple of days after Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo received former President Donald Trump鈥檚 endorsement.
Miles from the bright lights, jangling slot machines and crush of tourists on the Las Vegas Strip, a project is under construction that some economists believe represents the future of the region.
Now that Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo has an endorsement from Donald Trump in the Nevada governor鈥檚 race, it will be interesting to see how he handles the campaign moving forward.
Independent voters will have a lot of power during the midterm election. They outnumber Republicans and Democrats.
Russian propaganda has its seeds in World War II. This is what researcher Mary Blankenship defends, who, in an interview with Expresso, talks about how Russia continued the loose ends of the Soviet Union's discourse. Russians look at World War II as a religious event and that's why they believe they are saving the world from the "Nazis"
From Tesla to Space X, and to the Boring Company digging tunnels under Las Vegas, Elon Musk has his hands in many projects over the last few decades, but arguably his biggest move is purchasing Twitter for roughly $44 billion.
From Tesla to Space X, and to the Boring Company digging tunnels under Las Vegas, Elon Musk has his hands in many projects over the last few decades, but arguably his biggest move is purchasing Twitter for roughly $44 billion.