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Nevada Democrat Teresa Benitez-Thompson co-sponsored legislation in 2021 allowing people convicted of felony drug offenses to receive TANF cash assistance and SNAP food benefits without proving they were in treatment, had completed treatment, or were no longer illegally using controlled substances. Assembly Bill 138 ultimately erased Nevada’s prior restrictions on...

Billy Walker of Douglas County, Nevada Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford is helping California’s Attorney General Rob Bonta lead a 12-state lawsuit to stop Paramount from buying Warner Bros. Discovery. He says the deal would give one company too much control over movies and cable channels. Netflix has been one...

Republicans will descend on Dallas this week for something the party has never attempted before: a full-scale national convention in the middle of a president’s term, designed to put Donald Trump’s record, the Republican congressional agenda and some of the country’s most competitive candidates on one stage less than two...

A new television ad backing Nevada Democrat Rep. Susie Lee is attempting an extraordinary election-year rewrite of one of the clearest votes of her congressional career, portraying Lee as a champion of No Tax on Tips after she voted against the legislation that actually put the policy into federal law....

Nevada Democrat Rep. Susie Lee is telling voters she supports No Tax on Tips and No Tax on Overtime, an election-year declaration complicated by one rather stubborn problem: when Congress actually voted on legislation containing both tax cuts, Lee voted no. Asked by The Nevada Independent this week whether Congress should...

President Donald Trump has secured an unprecedented American foothold in Venezuela’s vast oil fields, giving the United States economic ownership, governance rights and preferential access to tens of billions of barrels of crude while pushing Chinese and Russian interests out of America’s backyard. The White House calls it the “biggest...

Washoe County resident Ali (not his real name) was born and raised in Iran as a Shiite Muslim until he was 19. Shortly before the Shah of Iran was deposed in the 1979 Revolution, Ali told his parents he wanted to move to the United States to have more freedom....