In The News: College of Liberal Arts

Las Vegas Review Journal

Accepting the past can be difficult, especially when it involves murder and mobsters.

KSNV-TV: News 3

It's not exactly dead, but President Biden's two trillion dollar social policy bill is on life support, now that one Democratic senator, Joe Manchin from West Virginia, said he can't support the measure.

Verywell Health

Face masks have saved thousands of lives over the past year and a half. In that time, we've come to learn just how much this cheap public health tool can dramatically reduce the transmission of a highly infectious virus.

KNPR News

In the second part of a three-episode arc, learn how the pandemic impacted Asian-American healthcare workers.

Discover Magazine

The MTBI type indicator is one of the most popular personality tests around the world. But its original design and the results it produces lack scientific support.

Nevada Independent

John Acres created the gaming industry’s first player tracking system in the 1980s, giving casinos the ability to follow a customer’s slot machine wagering activity and reward the gambler with various incentives. The problem, he said, is casinos are still using the same technology decades later.

 

Travel Weekly

A little more than a month after MGM Resorts announced the Mirage was for sale, the next chapter of the iconic, deeply influential property is ready to be written.

 

KVVU-TV: Fox 5

A local duo featuring violin and cello debuted with a live performance at an east Las Vegas community center on Sunday.

U.S. News & World Report

The number of weapons confiscated from students at Las Vegas-area schools has risen nearly 30% since the 2019-2020 academic year, corroborating what experts and educators have called a spike in troublesome behavior among schoolchildren since the return of in-person learning nearly two years into the COVID-19 pandemic.

Lipstiq

In modern astrology, until the late 2000s, astrology was reduced to a column in a women’s health magazine to give guidance or advice on how different types of personality would experience their upcoming day or week. That’s until the rise of mobile technology and the internet – which allowed Millennials and Gen Zs to engage in astrology.

Las Vegas Review Journal

It’s amazing what a handful of pocket change can do.

Taiwan Insight

Amidst the latest series of actions that draw China’s ire, the U.S. officially invited Taiwan to participate in an inaugural Summit for Democracy along with 109 states.