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U.S. federal immigration agents arrested hundreds of undocumented immigrants in at least four states this week in what officials on Friday called routine enforcement actions.
Officials say they are routine operations. Hundreds of people have been arrested in the last week in daily raids on homes and workplaces. It is a testament to the anti-immigration policies of Donald Trump.
Recently, I met with a former student of mine who showed exceptional promise during his freshman year. Since he took my class, he has become a leader in social justice groups and works part time at the university’s women’s center. He is now a junior and is on schedule to graduate a semester early. He is a model student. He is also undocumented.
Porn is everywhere. It's on people's mobile phones, laptops, hard disks and it's all over the internet. There are now thousands of free clips just a click away, but despite the ubiquity, porn is an industry in upheaval.
With Amazon Alexa, developers are creating novel and delightful voice experiences for customers. University students are rethinking the way we live. Meet Adam Betemedhin, an Electrical Engineering major, and Kevin Duong-Tran, a Computer Science major, from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). Adam and Kevin, along with roughly 20 other students from multi-disciplinary backgrounds at UNLV, are participating in the 2017 Solar Decathlon, a competition sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy that will culminate in October of this year.
Wanted: health care professionals, no medical degree required. That’s the pitch for a new UNLV School of Medicine program that aims to fill “a vital gap” in the health care system by producing community health workers who can help patients overcome social and physical barriers preventing them from receiving quality medical care.
Last week, Mary McCreesh got the kind of news that makes your heart sink: Her 82-year-old father was officially diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. So McCreesh, of Wayne, spent Friday afternoon at, of all places, the Philadelphia Home Show. She figured she can’t change her father’s diagnosis, but she can make it easier for him to stay at home, in the house McCreesh grew up in.
Owen Hambrook will get to experience one of the rarest of luxuries in his 14th season coaching UNLV men’s tennis team: fielding an experienced team that’s already proved it can win.
Nevada ranks near the bottom in terms of access to medical care. The number of doctors per resident is far below national averages. But a big push to turn that around will be the newly accredited UNLV School of Medicine, which opens with its first class of 60 students in July.