In The News: College of Liberal Arts

Nevada Independent

In 2017, then-state Senate Majority Leader Aaron Ford (D-Las Vegas) co-sponsored a major bill that would have limited state and local authorities in Nevada from cooperating in federal immigration activities. But the bill died after Ford pulled his support.

Covers.com

Temperatures in the Mojave Desert are scorching hot nowadays, as they are every summer, but summer 2025 doesn’t look as hot for Las Vegas as in previous years in terms of visitor numbers.

Haaretz

We were never alone, until recently at least. Just as there are multiple giraffe species in Africa, there were multiple human species, and some overlapped in time and space.

SELF Magazine

An explanation of why sweat isn’t always the only kind of waterworks in production.

NPR

Researchers say recently discovered teeth come from a previously undiscovered species of Australopithecus, adding to our understanding of human evolution.

Popular Mechanics

The famed Australopithecus Lucy may have a cousin. A new discovery of fossilized teeth in an Ethiopian field has researchers theorizing that they came from a new species of Australopithecus. They dated the teeth to the same period as the oldest known specimens of the genus Homo, found in the same field, upending some traditional theories of human evolution.

KSNV-TV: News 3

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Nevada has filed a lawsuit against the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV), accusing the agency of refusing to release full records of alleged communication with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The ACLU claims it has been seeking these records since February.

KSNV-TV: News 3

President Donald Trump is hosting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European leaders at the White House on Monday to discuss how to end Russia’s three-year war in Ukraine.

KTNV-TV: ABC 13

Here in Nevada, no mid-decade redistricting has ever been attempted. But that doesn't mean the state hasn't seen its share of redistricting drama on both sides of the aisle. And while repeated attempts to turn redistricting over to an independent commission here have failed, one proponent of the idea says she'll try again this year.

The Daily Wire

When President Donald Trump sat between the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan last week, few people realized the significance of the meeting and the months of negotiations that took place beforehand to get two hostile nations to come together at the White House.

Business Insider Africa

Researchers in Ethiopia recently made a significant discovery, having unearthed fossilized teeth from an ancient human species that was previously unknown in the evolutionary history of humans.

Earth.com

The story of human evolution is not a simple ladder from early forms to more advanced ones. For decades, fossils shaped a picture of steady, linear progress – one form giving rise to another in a neat sequence.