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The FAA says it will be reducing flights by 10 percent starting on Friday amid the ongoing government shutdown. The Trump administration says it's also considering a four-percent reduction in available flights.

Desert Companion

New Caribbean steakhouse Maroon will offer an important history lesson, a cultural experience, and food by an award-winning chef. Maroon will be the Strip’s first major restaurant owned and helmed by a Black chef, introducing the boulevard to the breadth of African diasporic cuisine.

SC Media

The major ransomware attack against Nevada discovered in late August has been underway since May, The Associated Press reports. Injection of a clandestine backdoor facilitated by a Nevada state employee's accidental download of a malicious system admin tool on May 14 allowed threat actors to create encrypted tunnels, conduct lateral movement, and infiltrate the state's password vault server by August, according to a post-mortem report from the state.

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Attorney Adam Crayk expects immigration enforcement in Utah to get much more aggressive. The recent public arrest at the airport that went viral is just one early indicator.

Las Vegas Sun

A federal judge in Nevada could soon decide whether two men — Victor Jacobo-Ramirez and Edgar Guevara-Alcantar, both denied bail under new immigration detention rules — could be the first of hundreds of detainees in the state to win access to long-denied bond hearings. Their emergency legal petition, filed last week in U.S. District Court in Las Vegas, has launched a class action supported by the ACLU of Nevada and the UNLV Immigration Clinic.

K.S.N.V. T.V. News 3

President Donald Trump has been pushing for an end to the Senate filibuster as support for potentially voting to get rid of the rule grows.

WGLT

In a time where the number of mental health professionals is going down and patient demand is going up, AI might be where people turn when they need professional mental health assistance.

Associated Press

State workers were put on paid administrative leave. Nevada residents couldn’t receive their driver’s licenses. Employers were unable to conduct background checks on new hires. These were all effects of a massive cyberattack in Nevada that took nearly a month to fully restore its services.

K.N.P.R. News

Sports is big business in Nevada. Take the Canelo Álvarez and Terence Crawford fight at Allegiant Stadium in September. That match raked in a reported $47 million in ticket sales alone. Of course, boxing has a long history in Nevada.The state was the first in the US to legalize professional prizefighting around the turn of the 20th century. Since then, Nevada has hosted some of the sport's biggest bouts. But now that Las Vegas is home to several professional sports teams, some fans worry that Nevada will lose its place at the heart of professional boxing.

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