United States immigration courts face a growing backlog of over 3.5 million cases. More than half of these are asylum applications. This backlog puts pressure on the U.S. asylum offices to adjudicate claims quickly. Nevertheless, asylum seekers often wait for years to receive a hearing.

A new global urban-preferences study suggests that many young Las Vegans view the city as a temporary stop rather than a long-term home. Other data show that Las Vegas experiences significant churn. Census estimates indicate that about 16 percent of city residents moved within the past year, a rate higher than the Nevada average. A Lincy Institute fact sheet from UNLV, citing Opportunity Insights data, found that from 1994 to 2018 one in three young adults raised in the Las Vegas region eventually moved to another state. Independent mobility studies have also pointed to a sharp reversal in migration patterns after the pandemic boom, including periods of negative net migration.

As turkeys take center stage on tables up and down the country, they are also playing an important role on the streets of Las Vegas this holiday season. A unique demonstration, ran near Cashman Middle School, sees an office don a turkey costume before stepping into the crossroad to see which drivers yield, particularly during the busy holiday season. Officers from the Clark County School District Police, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, Henderson Police Department, North Las Vegas Police Department, and UNLV Police Department joined forces for the event.

The 19th International Conference on Gambling & Risk Taking will convene on May 26-29, 2026 at the Bellagio in Las Vegas. Also referred to as the Eadington Conference because it was founded by the late Dr. Bill Eadington in 1974. Eadington was the founding academic in gaming research and host this first-of-its-kind gathering, which has reconvened every three years. Since Eadington’s passing in 2013, UNLV’s International Gaming Institute has produced the conference. Brett Abarbanel, now in her third year as executive director of the IGI, is excited about the possibilities for next year’s event.

Tucked in a spacious building just off Maryland Parkway, a couple of blocks away from UNLV’s Student Union, there’s a program that has become invaluable to hundreds of seniors. No, not the kind of seniors that are fourth-year students at UNLV, but rather retired and semi-retired people in the Las Vegas Valley who don’t believe that learning stops when life’s twilight years begin.

An idea currently being litigated in Dane County Circuit Court would return Wisconsin voting to what it was when the state began, offering, its proponents claim, a political party for all voters. That promise is fusion voting, outlawed by 1897 Wis. Act 348.

The Labor Department is closing the book on the Biden administration’s iteration of the fiduciary rule and dropping its defense of the regulation in court.

For patients with autoimmune vasculitides, mortality is on the decline in the U.S. but still remains elevated compared with the general population. These immunological disorders of inflammation of blood vessel walls have one of the highest mortality rates among rheumatologic diseases.

These are crazy times in the industry, and customers should take advantage while they can.