On the 93rd Academy Awards on April 25, director Chloé Zhao won two statuettes for Nomadland, her epic tale of a group of baby-boomers adrift in the great American West, and was nominated in no less than six categories. Rewarded in the United States, Chloé Zhao on the other hand became an outcast in her country of origin.

Sunday evening, during the 93rd Oscars ceremony, the filmmaker Chloe Zhao won the title for best director for Nomadland, an epic tale about a group of baby boomers drifting in the big American West. But in her country, she became an outcast.

There has been a series of recent developments in the relationship between the United States and Taiwan, including the signing of the memorandum of maritime patrol by the United States and Taiwan, and the first public visit to Taiwan by the US ambassador in 43 years. It is reported that the Biden administration is preparing to publish guidelines to relax restrictions on the exchanges between US and Taiwan officials. Analysis believes that this is not only a continuation of Trump's Taiwan policy, but also a symbol of the Biden administration's tough policy line toward China. Beijing continues to react fiercely.

Las Vegas Councilwoman Michele Fiore, who had reported contributing just $500 to her political action committee Future for Nevadans since 2017, recently disclosed she actually loaned the PAC more than $41,000.

Professor of Political Science at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nerses Kopaylan, speaks on how a truth commission would work with regards to the Second Karabakh War. Professor Kopaylan furthermore explains how objectivity would be maintained, how Armenians can help set this up, and whether there is a precedent for this kind of commission in the region.

She needed no introduction, but the vice president offered one anyway.

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 College of Southern Nevada will host virtual Women’s History events and important discussions during the month of March.

For decades, the order of the presidential primaries and caucuses has caused consternation.

There is no evidence a man arrested in Las Vegas and charged for his involvement in the U.S. Capitol riot voted in the November 2020 presidential election, an I-Team investigation revealed.

U.S. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick isn’t up for reelection for another two years. He's less than two months into his third term in the U.S. Congress.

Since at least the 2000 presidential election, pundits, scholars, and the general public have conceptualized the country’s partisan landscape using the blue states, red states, and swing states framework. But despite its ubiquity, this structure ignores how intrastate regional tensions and political competition imbue the divisions between red and blue America. Differences within states also anchor the long-standing urban-rural divide—a salient feature of American politics since the country’s founding.