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Frank Van Breukelen is a UNLV researcher who studies Pupfish. He said the fish help scientists understand humans and evolution.
Station Casinos parent company, Red Rock Resorts, announced Tuesday it will buy the Palms Casino Resort.
When Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents showed up at his house in Springfield, Illinois, in 2012, Colombian-born Jhon Erick Ocampo struggled to explain to them that he was an American citizen.
One positions himself as the leader of a revolution, the other as an outsider who’ll rescue the nation from a political establishment that has dragged it into despair.
The US presidential election may still be five months away. But the deadline to turn green card holders into Americans, able to vote, is just around the corner.
This month both California and New York passed path-breaking legislation to increase the minimum wage, up to $15 by 2022 for California and by 2018 for the slightly more ambitious Empire State. Opponents, especially in low-wage industries, decried the negative impact the change will have on their purportedly slim profit margins. Meanwhile, advocates praised the move, citing widening inequality and soaring corporate profits as evidence of needed change.
Rarely are governments criticized for moving too quickly on a transportation project.
But that seems to be the case with Clark County’s effort to build an elevated expressway along portions of Koval Lane, Tropicana Avenue, Swenson Street and Paradise Road near McCarran International Airport.
Some planets stand stark naked. For the first time, we have observational evidence that some super-Earths orbit so close to their host stars that the puffy atmospheres that clothed them have been ripped away.