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Las Vegas Sun

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., makes a campaign stop at UNLV during his national “Justice for All Tour” Thursday, April 18, 2019, in Las Vegas.

Las Vegas Review Journal

Storing that leftover pizza inside a hotel minibar fridge can cost you as much as $75 on the Las Vegas Strip.

The Conversation

One month after Robert Mueller submitted the final report on his investigation into Donald Trump, its contents have finally been made public – meaning that the Department of Justice is no longer the only one analyzing and interpreting Mueller’s findings.

DWnews.com

Western media has paid extensive attention to Guo Taiming’s announcement of his candidacy for Taiwan’s president. He said that although he has no political experience, he has a wide range of contacts as a successful businessman and has high-level contacts in Washington and Beijing. The precedent of US President Trump's business and excellent politics remains to be seen.

Noticias de la Ciencia y la Tecnología

An international team of astronomers, including faculty and alumni from UNLV, has discovered a new way to spot when collisions occur in distant galaxies between two neutron stars - incredibly dense, city-sized celestial bodies that possess the most powerful magnetic fields in the universe.

BBC World Service

What's the best way to help sex workers? We hear the cases for full decriminalisation, versus abolition of what's often dubbed the world's oldest profession.

ABC NEWS 4

The United States is staring down what could be the worst year for measles outbreaks since the country eliminated the disease as an endemic illness in 2000, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, creating a growing public health threat that medical experts say some communities are bringing on themselves by rejecting a safe and reliable vaccine.

Astronomy

In October 2017, astronomers announced the first detection of gravitational waves from the merger of two neutron stars earlier that year. The event also rung in the era of multi-messenger astronomy, as more than 70 telescopes observed the event’s afterglow in optical light, X-rays, gamma rays, and more. Now, an X-ray signal dubbed XT2 from a galaxy 6.6 billion light-years away has revealed another neutron star merger, which left behind a single, heavier neutron star with an incredibly powerful magnetic field: a magnetar.

Futurity

This event likely signaled the merger of two neutron stars—dense stellar objects packed mainly with neutrons—and could give astronomers fresh insight into how neutron stars are built.

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