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NPR reports a staffer from the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, recently got high-level access to view and ...
07/11/2025

NPR reports a staffer from the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, recently got high-level access to view and change the contents of a payments system that controls tens of billions of dollars in government payments and loans to farmers and ranchers across the United States, according to internal access logs reviewed by NPR.

"When we talk about farm loan application records, there is no more personal information anywhere than in that database," Scott Marlow, a former senior official in the U.S. Department of Agriculture, told NPR.

"The farmer's entire financial life and the life of their kids and their family, every time they've missed a payment, every time they've had a hard time, every time they've gotten in financial trouble … it's there."

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The city of Las Vegas wants your ideas on how to develop a 3.4-acre site in Symphony Park. They said yesterday they are ...
07/11/2025

The city of Las Vegas wants your ideas on how to develop a 3.4-acre site in Symphony Park. They said yesterday they are looking for what they called a “unique and iconic project” for that space in the southeast corner. They are looking for something that is at least three stories, features ground-floor retail or another active use, and offers a “seamless look” for that part of Symphony Park.

Going up next to it will be a 100,000-square-foot medical office building, which is expected to break ground next year. Proposals must include a project description and timeline, costs, and a few other things. Deadline to submit is August 28.

What would you want to see in Symphony Park?

Warmer than usual weather for this time of year is in store for the Las Vegas Valley over the next few days. The Nationa...
07/11/2025

Warmer than usual weather for this time of year is in store for the Las Vegas Valley over the next few days. The National Weather Service forecasts several days with highs between 108-110°F. Normal highs would sit between 104-105°F.

In response to the high temperatures, cooling stations across the region have been activated. These locations will be activated as cooling stations July 10-16 during regular business hours.

NPR reports A federal judge ordered two attorneys representing MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell in a Colorado defamation case t...
07/10/2025

NPR reports A federal judge ordered two attorneys representing MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell in a Colorado defamation case to pay $3,000 each after they used artificial intelligence to prepare a court filing filled with a host of mistakes and citations of cases that didn't exist.

Christopher Kachouroff and Jennifer DeMaster violated court rules when they filed the document in February filled with more than two dozen mistakes — including hallucinated cases, meaning fake cases made up by AI tools, Judge Nina Y. Wang of the U.S. District Court in Denver ruled Monday.

"Notwithstanding any suggestion to the contrary, this Court derives no joy from sanctioning attorneys who appear before it," Wang wrote in her decision. "Indeed, federal courts rely upon the assistance of attorneys as officers of the court for the efficient and fair administration of justice."

The use of AI by lawyers in court is not, itself illegal. But Wang found the lawyers violated a federal rule that requires lawyers to certify that claims they make in court are "well grounded" in the law. Turns out, fake cases don't meet that bar.

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The Filipino community in Las Vegas is the fastest-growing Asian American group in the state, with more than 200,000 mem...
07/10/2025

The Filipino community in Las Vegas is the fastest-growing Asian American group in the state, with more than 200,000 members.

As of April 2025, they had gained their very own cultural district recognized by Clark County. It’s located along a 1.2-mile stretch of South Maryland Parkway between Desert Inn Road and Flamingo Road.

Rozita Lee discusses plans for the new cultural district. She’s nationally recognized as an ambassador for the Asian American and Pacific Islander — or AAPI — community. Lee has lived in Vegas for over 40 years.

Hear the full conversation with Rozita at https://tinyurl.com/4dbchwty

The U.S. has reported 1,288 measles cases this year — the highest number in 33 years, according to the latest figures fr...
07/10/2025

The U.S. has reported 1,288 measles cases this year — the highest number in 33 years, according to the latest figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The last time the U.S. saw more measles cases was in 1992, eight years before the disease was declared eliminated in the country.

"We're seeing a lot more measles transmission than we are used to," says Caitlin Rivers. She's the director of the Center for Outbreak Response Innovation at Johns Hopkins University, which has its own measles dashboard.

"Measles is one of the most infectious diseases known to humans. And more importantly, it's preventable. And so we really hate to see this resurgence of a preventable virus," Rivers says.

Since the start of the year, measles cases have been confirmed by more than three dozen states plus the District of Columbia. The largest outbreak by far is in Texas. The state has reported 753 measles cases this year. Across the U.S., 155 people have been hospitalized, and three people have died.

And while the Texas outbreak has slowed significantly, across the country, Rivers says the U.S. is now seeing more cases on a weekly basis than in previous years.

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As a Nevada Public Radio listener, you have the power to make a lasting, positive influence in the community through pla...
07/09/2025

As a Nevada Public Radio listener, you have the power to make a lasting, positive influence in the community through planned gifts to the causes you find most important. If Nevada Public Radio has been important to you, please consider a planned gift to the station.

To learn more about ways you can support Nevada Public Radio through tax smart planning, visit knprlegacy.org.

In the past two decades, Mountain West states have seen the sharpest declines in the rates that women are having babies....
07/09/2025

In the past two decades, Mountain West states have seen the sharpest declines in the rates that women are having babies.

Fertility rates are declining nationwide as families decide to have children later or not at all. But Utah, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado, Idaho and Wyoming all ranked in the top ten for drops between 2005 and 2023, according to a recent Lending Tree analysis of federal data.

In 2005 in Utah, for every thousand women of childbearing age, about 92.8 babies were born. By 2023, that number had dropped to 59.6, the sharpest decline in the country.

That’s partly because the fertility rate there and in other Western states was so high they had more room to fall, compared to states in the South, which already had lower rates.

Emily Harris, a demographer at University of Utah’s Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute, has documented this trend. She said another factor is that as people flock to desirable locations in the West, home prices have skyrocketed. Studies show the rising cost of living can delay or prevent families from having kids.

“A lot of people have in their mind that you buy a house and then you have a kid,” she said. “With people having to spend more money on buying a house, if they're able to, that can impact their decisions on childbearing.”

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Home prices in Las Vegas in June were up $5,000 from May, putting the median price for a single-family home at $485,000,...
07/09/2025

Home prices in Las Vegas in June were up $5,000 from May, putting the median price for a single-family home at $485,000, tying the record high set in the first three months of the year. The report just out from Las Vegas Realtors using Multiple Listing Service data also shows that the median price for condominiums and townhomes dropped about $2,000 to $305,000.

LVR President George Kypreos said prices have been pretty stable this year but that an increase in the number of homes available could be good news for buyers.

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The Transportation Security Administration appears to be kicking one of the most despised rules at U.S. airport security...
07/09/2025

The Transportation Security Administration appears to be kicking one of the most despised rules at U.S. airport security checkpoints: removing your shoes.

The federal government began requiring airline passengers to slip off their footwear during security checks in 2006, roughly five years after British-born terrorist Richard Reid tried to detonate a bomb hidden in his shoes on an American Airlines flight from Paris to Miami.

On Tuesday, the rule already seemed to have ended at some airports.

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Tourism to mountain resort towns in the West is getting off to a slow start this summer.The pace of booking for lodging ...
07/08/2025

Tourism to mountain resort towns in the West is getting off to a slow start this summer.

The pace of booking for lodging around 17 destinations, including Vail, Colo., Sun Valley, Idaho, and Jackson Hole, Wyo., slowed for the sixth month in a row in May – the longest downward streak since the COVID-19 pandemic. Bookings in May for the rest of the summer were down 7.1% compared to last year.

The data, sourced from 28,000 hotels, rentals and cabins, was collected by DestiMetrics, part of the travel company Inntopia.

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Professional are up in arms after being targeted by an in the new federal budget package, and Rep. Dina Titus is loo...
07/08/2025

Professional are up in arms after being targeted by an in the new federal budget package, and Rep. Dina Titus is looking to help.

That amendment allows people to deduct up to 90% of their losses against their gambling wins when paying income , replacing a 100% deduction.

The change means that someone who reports winnings of $100,000 and losses of $100,000 would still owe taxes on $10,000.

Titus, who chairs the Congressional Gaming Caucus, said today she and Rep. Ro Khanna, D-California, are introducing the FAIR BET Act to restore the 100 percent deduction. She called it a “critical fix.”

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