In The News: College of Liberal Arts

Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo did not attend the first press conference held Wednesday to discuss a ransomware attack that crippled state government operations this week.

The Metal Gear video game series is known for its innovations in game design, as well as stories that confront heavy philosophical themes — like the relationship between people and technology.

School is in session, and going back to school may look different for older adults looking to get their degree for the first time.
In the 1980s, David Morris was really struggling. He was growing up in an affluent suburb of San Diego, and went to a high school with a social hierarchy that felt tough to navigate. His parents were divorced, and he felt himself going off the rails

President Donald Trump is talking about changing voting laws again, citing a recent conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

In 2017, then-state Senate Majority Leader Aaron Ford (D-Las Vegas) co-sponsored a major bill that would have limited state and local authorities in Nevada from cooperating in federal immigration activities. But the bill died after Ford pulled his support.
Temperatures in the Mojave Desert are scorching hot nowadays, as they are every summer, but summer 2025 doesn’t look as hot for Las Vegas as in previous years in terms of visitor numbers.
We were never alone, until recently at least. Just as there are multiple giraffe species in Africa, there were multiple human species, and some overlapped in time and space.
An explanation of why sweat isn’t always the only kind of waterworks in production.

Researchers say recently discovered teeth come from a previously undiscovered species of Australopithecus, adding to our understanding of human evolution.
The famed Australopithecus Lucy may have a cousin. A new discovery of fossilized teeth in an Ethiopian field has researchers theorizing that they came from a new species of Australopithecus. They dated the teeth to the same period as the oldest known specimens of the genus Homo, found in the same field, upending some traditional theories of human evolution.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Nevada has filed a lawsuit against the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV), accusing the agency of refusing to release full records of alleged communication with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The ACLU claims it has been seeking these records since February.