In The News: College of Liberal Arts
Less than an hour before sundown, the men wrapped UNLV’s bronze Hey Reb! statue in a yellow sling and rigged it to a forklift.
Even in years without a global pandemic, catastrophic weather events, and other 2020 phenomena, many people find the holidays stressful, exhausting, or depressing. According to the American Psychological Association, 44% of women and 33% of men surveyed feel stressed during the holidays. The holiday blues strike people experiencing the forced joyfulness and expectations of the season.
There’s an unanswered question at the heart of the current political climate: Have Republicans won elections in the past four years because of President Donald Trump’s influence or in spite of him?
Las Vegas has seen its share of loss recently. Three titans of our valley passed away in recent weeks.
Mike Ashley’s Sports Direct and Peter Cowgill’s JD Sports are the heavyweights of high street retail. Their brutal battle to sell sportswear has made them super-rich. But now a new threat looms. Can they survive, asks Oliver Shah
Savannah Benavidez stopped working at her job as a medical biller in June to take care of her 2-year-old son after his day care shut down. Needing a way to pay her bills, she created an account on OnlyFans — a social media platform where users sell original content to monthly subscribers — and started posting photos of herself nude or in lingerie.
In the wake of last week’s frightening events in Washington, D.C., and as the nation faces ongoing threats of white supremacist violence, the Zinn Education Project is releasing an open letter signed by more than 170 prominent scholars of U.S. history urging school districts to devote more time and resources to teaching the Reconstruction era in upper elementary, middle, and high school U.S. history and civics courses.
Robert Futrell has spent decades studying right-wing militia movements. A professor at the Ê×Ò³| Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³», he watched as a mob of Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, killing a Capitol Police officer. Four others also died in the attack, which was part of an ongoing effort by President Donald Trump to subvert the presidential election. Similar demonstrations, some violent, also erupted at several state capitals, including Salem, Oregon.
Henderson-based conservative social media app Parler is fighting to get back online after Amazon Web Services removed it from its platform Sunday night.
Sheldon G. Adelson, a billionaire casino tycoon and free-spending political donor who helped bankroll conservative candidates in the United States and Israel, and who pushed the governments of both countries to reject the establishment of a Palestinian state alongside Israel, died Jan. 11 in Malibu, Calif. He was 87.
As the Clark County School Board nears a decision on reopening classrooms, many parents are agonizing over whether it’s worth sending their kids back to in-person instruction for just a few months while COVID-19 rates remain high.
They called him the Westside Slugger. The nickname fit Joe Neal. He could throw a punch, but he also could take one.