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Casinos on the Las Vegas Strip have posted five consecutive months of year-over-year declines in gaming revenue. Gambling parlors in downtown Las Vegas and along the Boulder Strip have reported decreases in three of the past four months of available data.


Republicans have taken the lead over Democrats in Nevada’s voter registration numbers, marking the first time in nearly 20 years the GOP has outnumbered Democrats in the battleground state.


Immigration enforcement is common in Southern Nevada but the recent activities by federal agents nationwide are heightening awareness. Organizations that help migrant clients in Las Vegas continue to monitor activities in states surrounding Nevada including California and Arizona.

Rajinder*, a 68-year-old first-generation Indian immigrant, and Saroj*, 65, a first-generation immigrant, are a married couple living in Ohio. They are now retired. Rajinder worked with the US Postal Service and Saroj was a Retail Manager at a grocery chain. They have one adult daughter, Neerja*, who lives close by and has a family with two young children. Saroj has noticed recently that Rajinder has become forgetful to the extent that he forgets to keep track of monthly bills.


Monday was International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz extermination camp. To honor the victims and survivors of the Holocaust on Holocaust Remembrance Day, UNLV hosted an educational event on-campus featuring community leaders like Las Vegas Mayor Shelley Berkley and Commissioner Michael Naft among others. This year’s event also centered on a discussion to consider the significance of the Holocaust and Genocide today.


The Las Vegas Aces have traded fan favorite Kelsey Plum to the Los Angeles Sparks as part of a three-team deal that also involves the Seattle Storm.


An image of a Border Patrol agent filling their vehicle with gas in one of Nevada’s largest Hispanic-populated neighborhoods swept through local Latino Facebook groups last week, bringing with it worry about President Donald Trump’s promises of mass deportations.


To know who will protect the marginalized today, one must look at the empathy exhibited in the past, according to Heidi Straus. Straus is the head of a nonprofit called Nevada Center for Humanity, which aims to educate the community about the Holocaust. Last year, she partnered with UNLV’s history department to curate an exhibit with the organization’s collection of artifacts from the Holocaust.
