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As federal regulators finalize rules requiring ticket and hotel sellers reveal hidden "junk fees" to prohibit "bait-and-switch pricing" and other practices that hide total prices in live-event and short-term lodging industries, researchers at UNLV are looking into the impact of pricing transparency.
Registered Republican voters have — by the narrowest of margins — overtaken Democrats in the pivotal battleground state of Nevada for the first time in nearly 20 years.
During the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s, uprisings and protests happened in urban areas across the country as Black Americans fought to end discrimination and racial segregation. During this time, residents in the Historic Westside of Las Vegas also joined that fight.
Over the last eight years, Presidents Donald Trump and Joe Biden have remade the federal judiciary. The U.S. Senate approved 234 of Trump’s judicial picks in his first term, and 235 Biden nominees. Each is responsible for the appointments of just over a quarter of the entire federal judiciary.
Mortgage rates could be negatively impacted by an ongoing trade war between the United States and Canada, Mexico and China, according to real estate experts. Tariffs also could potentially increase prices on building materials, and more, and inflation invariably means mortgage rates will go up.
Charles Kellar was a middle-aged New York attorney with a family, an established law practice and a portfolio of investment properties. But when Thurgood Marshall, then the head of the NAACP’s legal division, asked him to go to Nevada, he went, according to Claytee White, director of the Oral History Research Center at UNLV.
Although segregation in Las Vegas ended in 1960, UNLV Associate Professor of African-American and African Diaspora Studies Tyler Parry says that discrimination, racism and police brutality all contributed to tensions within the African-American community.
Bianca Censori caused a stir at the Grammys this year when she appeared on the red carpet wearing a barely-there dress. The Australian architectural designer and model, 30, arrived at the ceremony with her partner, the rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West.
The facility is planned near the UNLV Harry Reid Technology Park off Sunset Road. The university will partner with Intermountain Health in the project, with assistance from local jurisdictions.