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Las Vegas Review Journal

Brandon Eddy spends his 20-minute drive home from work getting into dad mode. At home, his three children just want to hang out with their dad. And their dad just wants to hang out with them. Sunday marks Father’s Day, a celebratory tradition that’s over 100 years old, and is usually spent grilling hamburgers or playing outside, basking in the sun. Father’s Day is meant to honor dads for their role in a family, and new research shows that role is evolving.

Yogonet Gaming News

Las Vegas Sands and the Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) have announced that 15 students representing 10 historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) from around the country have been selected to participate in the second annual Sands Hospitality Immersion Program, June 16-22 in Las Vegas.

The Star

The language sounds like something from an authoritarian state or the US anti-communist purges of the 1950s, but Donald Trump is increasingly focused on one target: “the enemy within”.

Insight Into Diversity

The Thurgood Marshall College Fund and Las Vegas Sands Corporation have partnered for the second consecutive year to offer the Sands Hospitality Immersion Program (SHIP), a hospitality immersion experience exclusively for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) students.

AARP

Doug Hairgrove and Warren “Woody” Wood were together for 65 years. They met in college in 1959, worked side by side for more than three decades at a Southern California junior high school and got married in 2008 at their desert home in Palm Springs, California.

Yahoo!

For Father’s Day, we’re honoring the TV patriarchs we always wished to call “Dad” ourselves. Remember Uncle Phil of “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,” Tony Micelli of “Who’s the Boss?” and Dan Conner of "Roseanne?” They weren’t just hilarious and entertaining archetypes — their diverse socioeconomic statuses, gender beliefs and family structures taught us that no household looks the same.

Today

For Father’s Day, we’re honoring the TV patriarchs we always wished to call “Dad” ourselves. Remember Uncle Phil of “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,” Tony Micelli of “Who’s the Boss?” and Dan Conner of "Roseanne?” They weren’t just hilarious and entertaining archetypes — their diverse socioeconomic statuses, gender beliefs and family structures taught us that no household looks the same.

iGaming Daily

It’s the last day of Neosurf’s takeover of iGaming Daily, supported by Optimove. To round off the week Andrea McGeachin is joined by the Director of Research at the UNLV International Gaming Institute, Kasra Ghaharian. The pair discuss the “three pillars” of the International Gaming Institute, Kasra’s own journey from the UK to Las Vegas and also dig deeper into some of his latest research, including how the data provided by payment companies can be used to identify problem gambling behaviour.

Forbes

Whether you’re having a backyard cookout or camping with your family, nothing puts a damper quite as fast as biting insects like mosquitoes, flies and ticks. To help keep bites at bay, the best bug repellents contain safe and proven effective ingredients—and last for hours. For example, our top recommendation, the Ranger Ready Insect Repellent Spray, has an odorless formula that uses 20% picaridin and lasts for up to 12 hours.

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