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A man running for state office in Nevada was reportedly violently attacked in broad daylight while putting up campaign signs about a week and a half ago. Around 4 p.m. on August 29, Stanley Vaughan braved the Las Vegas heat and walked about and put up campaign signs for himself and other candidates near the intersection of Pecos Road and Twain Avenue, about five miles east of the Las Vegas Strip.

AZO Quantum

One of the greatest mysteries of the universe is the formation of the appropriately termed supermassive black holes, which can weigh up to a million times the mass of the sun and are found in the center of most galaxies.

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Nevada lawmakers will look to increase transparency and accuracy when a member of law enforcement pulls someone over during a traffic stop. During a Joint Interim Standing Committee of Judiciary meeting, members voted to write a letter to the Department of Public Safety to make collecting certain data more uniform.

Las Vegas Review Journal

AJ Pratt may be the Forrest Gump of organized crime. Or, possibly, its Sidd Finch — the Mets pitching prospect and French horn enthusiast George Plimpton invented for Sports Illustrated. The docuseries “The Tailor of Sin City” (10 p.m. Thursday, SundanceTV) follows Pratt as he builds a clothing business in Wichita, Kansas — then leaves it all behind in 1969 for a move to Las Vegas.

K.N.P.R. News

The rising number of unhoused people and lack of affordable housing are problems that many cities and states struggle with. It’s not an issue that comes up a lot when politicians hit the campaign trail. Maybe because it seems so difficult. It’s also controversial. Do elected city officials really want to arrest people for camping on public sidewalks, which the Supreme Court now says they can?

The Daily Guardian

In Eastern philosophy, all entities in nature, including human beings, are made of three qualities or gunas: rajas (passion, activity, change, creation), sattva (goodness, harmony, purity, preservation), and tamas (darkness, chaos, inertia, destruction). In an apple tree, there are three kinds of fruits that denote these three gunas: there are ripening fruits (rajas), there are ripe fruits (sattva) and there are overripe fruits (tamas). In human beings, also there are people full of passion and energy (domination of rajas), people in harmony and purity (domination of sattva) and people who are lazy and full of inertia (domination of tamas).

Healthline

Following the death of her son, a mom is warning others about the “blackout challenge” (also known as the “choking challenge”), a dangerous viral TikTok trend.

P.B.S.

Meet CCSD students who spent part of their summer on the UNLV campus for the Young Rebels Program “Starting the School Year Full STEAM Ahead Day Camp."

Vegas Inc

Lisa Davis, the executive director in the office of graduate student services at UNLV’s Lee Business School, said she has spoken to many prospective students who can’t regularly make it to campus for classes. The school now has a solution for those students. The Lee Business School will offer fully online, module-based learning so students can pursue a master’s of business administration at their own pace. The option will debut in the spring.

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