ELKO, Nev. (AP) – A defense lawyer says two Elko County men accused of trafficking drugs and conducting illegal cockfights feared for their lives and…
ICE frees potential witnesses in Georgia medical abuse case
HOUSTON (AP) – U.S. immigration authorities have released the last of nine detained women who were taken to see a rural Georgia gynecologist accused of…
Nevada legislative session to start closed to public
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) – The Nevada Legislature will limit access to the public when lawmakers convene next month to confront the coronavirus pandemic and…
Impeachment arguments to start week of Feb. 8
Senators will be sworn in as impeachment jurors next Tuesday, but the actual trial on former President Donald Trump won’t begin until the week of…
Va senator who defended Capitol rioters faces censure effort
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) – The Virginia Senate appears likely to censure a GOP state senator whose public apology fell flat after she had defended those…
Rudy Giuliani ethics complaint filed by Lawyers Defending American Democracy
NEW YORK — A lawyers’ group filed an ethics complaint against Rudy Giuliani with New York’s courts, calling for him to be investigated and his…
Joe Biden coronavirus team tempers vaccine expectations as governors start canceling appointments
President Biden’s blueprint for tackling COVID-19 signals a departure from President Trump’s vaccine-or-bust strategy, doubling down on masks, testing and other measures to stop the…
Senate power-sharing deal elusive; Joe Biden agenda on hold
Who’s on first, what’s on second, and nobody knows exactly how the Senate is being run right now. Though Democrats technically took the reins of…
Amazon offer to aid Biden administration with coronavirus vaccine distribution irks Republicans
Amazon has offered to assist President Biden in distributing coronavirus vaccines, raising questions about whether the company put politics over people’s lives in dealing with…
Joe Biden gender-identity order accused of ‘erasing women,’ threatening girls’ sports
President Biden opened a Pandora’s box with his executive order on gender identity and sexual orientation, pushing the hotly contested issue of transgender participation in…