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A few months before Taiwan’s local elections in 2018, a tropical storm hit the city of Chiayi, killing at least six people and displacing thousands of others. President Tsai Ing-wen traveled to Chiayi to show her support for the flood victims, but soon after, an innocuous photo of the president riding in an armored vehicle became a nationwide scandal. The image was cropped and cast in black and white, and a caption was added, falsely suggesting that she came with armed gunmen and was smiling cruelly at the misfortune of a nearby man biking through knee-high floodwaters.

The Nevada Independent

Over the past few years many Nevadans have sought to pursue a better future by seriously reckoning with the state’s history of racial discrimination. Radio programs and public forums have held critical discussions surrounding the legacies of “sundown towns” in Northern Nevada and the problem of police brutality in Clark County’s recent past, alongside debates over the presence of Confederate symbols in a state once called the “Mississippi of the West.”

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

As we approach the one year anniversary of COVID-19 lockdowns, a UNLV professor has been studying how well people are coping with communication.

MEDINDIA

Research led by UNLV has found that compared to tech mediums, older technologies more effectively ease pandemic loneliness and stress.

Las Vegas Review Journal

Nevada State College announced Monday it’s planning a virtual graduation ceremony in May due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Nevada Independent

In one of the first signs of the emerging “new normal” at Nevada’s higher education institutions, UNR President Brian Sandoval announced in a letter Monday that administrators were “actively planning on being back” for the coming fall semester, including increased options for in-person academics and events.

LISTVERSE

The line between life and death is a fine one, and it is sometimes difficult to identify. Although one government has found it necessary to warn its citizens to refrain from playing doctor by trying to determine whether a family member has died, even physicians, nurses, paramedics, and other professionals sometimes have trouble pinpointing the cause of death or, indeed, even whether death has actually occurred. The thought that medical experts could pronounce living people dead may seem astounding, but this declaration actually happens much more often than we might think.

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

Who am I and how should I act? These are questions multiracial children deal with on a daily basis.

K.V.V.U. T.V. Fox 5

College students could be spending more time on campus next fall as universities aim to get back to physical classrooms.

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