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U.S.A. Today

Travelers have spent many years proving the honor system doesn't make for an orderly airplane boarding process, so now American Airlines is testing a way to make sure people actually board with their assigned group.

BBC

Nevada, famous for Las Vegas and the Hoover Dam, is one of seven states that will decide the 2024 US presidential election. Voting in swing states is hard to predict and can swing Republican or Democrat - that’s why you’re hearing so much about them as campaigning draws to a close. Here’s all you need to know.

Route Fifty

For the first time since 1995, a member of the flamboyant Goodman family won’t be on the ballot in Las Vegas. Mayor Carolyn Goodman is term-limited. But the race to succeed her is roiled by issues about the city’s future, not its past.

Las Vegas Weekly

Since Donald Trump arrived on the national scene, the women of America have been central to the fight to keep him from amassing power. On January 21, 2017, the day after Trump’s thinly-attended inauguration, hundreds of thousands of women flocked to the streets of Washington, D.C. for the worldwide Women’s March, protesting the ascension of an acknowledged sexual predator who would be found liable for rape years later.

Las Vegas Review Journal

Las Vegas celebrity Dan Bilzerian has shoveled mounds of money into Nevada politics, allowed by a legal loophole that lets him give the maximum over and over again to the same candidate through corporate entities, records and interviews show.

The New York Times

Most people in the United States don’t consume enough whole grains. And that’s a problem, experts say.

K.S.N.V. T.V. News 3

Traffic safety advocates raise awareness of the deadly crashes on Clark County roadways while highlighting a day next month that recognizes road crash victims.

K.T.N.V. T.V. ABC 13

In April, Gov. Joe Lombardo signed an executive order to give Nevada's Patient Protection Commission more power to review and make recommendations on how to address Nevada's healthcare worker shortage. And at UNLV, CSN and local hospitals, there is now an increased focus on new educational and training programs to keep physicians in Nevada.

Newswise

“Can you imagine a day when you turn on your faucet and no water comes out?” The hypothetical question, posed by a research team at UNLV, is called a “Day Zero” scenario. It sounds like the plot of a doomsday apocalypse series but it’s not as unimaginable - or as far-fetched - as a Hollywood screenplay might seem.

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