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• Celebrities, politicians gather to mourn George Floyd in Minneapolis

  04-06-2020 21:59 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Hollywood celebrities, musicians and politicians gathered in front of the golden casket of George Floyd at a fiery memorial Thursday for the man whose death at the hands of police sparked global protests, with a civil rights leader declaring it is time for black people to demand, “Get your knee off our necks!”
  
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• Sisolak highlights positive data in state’s fight against COVID-19

  04-06-2020 21:01 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Gov. Steve Sisolak on Thursday highlighted data that shows the state making continuing progress on infections, hospital capacity and testing and contact tracing.
  
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• We’re back! Las Vegas casinos shuttered by virus reopen

  04-06-2020 17:13 via lasvegassun.com
  Today’s reopening of Nevada casinos couldn’t have gone much better for Beth Toy. The Las Vegas resident was at her favorite casino — Red Rock Resort — for less than an hour when she hit four aces on ...
  
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• Clark County reports 133 new COVID-19 cases, no new deaths

  04-06-2020 16:53 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The count recorded 133 new COVID-19 deaths and no new deaths over the preceding day, according to data posted Thursday by the Southern Nevada Health District.
  
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• 1.9M seek jobless aid as reopenings slow for 9th week

  04-06-2020 15:15 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The diminishing pace suggests that the job market meltdown that was triggered by the coronavirus may have bottomed out as more companies call at least some of their former employees back to work.
  
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• Trump-Pentagon clash breaks open over military use on protests

  04-06-2020 13:02 via reviewjournal.com
  
  President Donald Trump’s Pentagon chief shot down his idea of using troops to quell protests across the United States, then reversed course on pulling part of the 82nd Airborne Division off standby in an extraordinary clash between the U.S. military and its commander in chief.
  
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• WWII flag stolen from city hall amid Reno protest returned

  04-06-2020 11:00 via lasvegassun.com
  An American flag from a World War II battleship stolen from its display after people broke into the Reno City Hall on Saturday amid protests in Nevada over the death of George Floyd was anonymously returned Tuesday.
  
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• Welcome back, casinos: Your guide to the reopening of Las Vegas resorts

  04-06-2020 11:00 via lasvegassun.com
  Here is a list of what to expect at resorts around town, aside from table games and slot machines, which will return in some capacity at all properties ...
  
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• The return of locals casinos means a lot to a lot of Las Vegans

  04-06-2020 11:00 via lasvegasweekly.com
  
  At Texas Station and Fiesta Rancho, I knew many of the bingo callers and agents, beverage servers, players club workers and customers. And they certainly knew me.
  
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• Tally: Arrests at widespread U.S. protests hit 10,000

  04-06-2020 11:00 via lasvegassun.com
  More than 10,000 people have been arrested in protests decrying racism and police brutality in the wake of George Floyd's death, according to an Associated Press tally of known arrests across the U.S.
  
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• Protests eclipse pandemic, but White House fears resurgence

  04-06-2020 11:00 via lasvegassun.com
  For weeks, President Donald Trump has been eager to publicly turn the page on the coronavirus pandemic. Now fears are growing within the White House that the very thing that finally shoved the virus from center stage — mass protests over the death of George Floyd — may bring about its resurgence.
  
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• Police: Well-coordinated thieves capitalize on protest chaos

  04-06-2020 11:00 via lasvegassun.com
  Police in a small San Francisco Bay Area community were about to help authorities in neighboring Oakland keep the peace during a protest when a more pressing crisis hit home ...
  
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• Police: NYPD officer ambushed, man who stabbed him shot

  04-06-2020 11:00 via lasvegassun.com
  A New York City police officer on an anti-looting patrol was ambushed Wednesday in Brooklyn by a man who walked up behind him and stabbed him in the neck, police said, setting off a struggle in which the assailant was shot and two other officers suffered gunshot injuries to their hands.
  
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• Our ever-evolving casino industry is too smart and nimble to fall before a virus

  04-06-2020 11:00 via lasvegasweekly.com
  
  If the (hopefully temporary) future of entertainment is built upon social distancing, our casinos will fill that distance with accommodating comforts and cool things to do.
  
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• Modified to promote safety, the Strip experience should remain quintessentially Vegas

  04-06-2020 11:00 via lasvegasweekly.com
  
  What kind of experience awaits your return to the Strip?
  
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• Las Vegas casinos offer cheap rooms, promotions to bring players back

  04-06-2020 11:00 via lasvegassun.com
  To Jake McKenna, Las Vegas is a special place. It’s where he met his fiancé at a work conference last year, and it’s a city he likes to revisit when he can. After being closed for months because of the coronavirus crisis ...
  
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• How Las Vegas gym and fitness operations have changed since reopening

  04-06-2020 11:00 via lasvegassun.com
  From small, locally owned training businesses to corporate-run gyms, the workout experience will likely look this way around the Valley for the next several months.
  
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• Floyd memorials will retrace life, push for justice in death

  04-06-2020 11:00 via lasvegassun.com
  The memorial services to honor George Floyd are extraordinary: three cities over six days, with a chance for mourners to pay their respects in the communities where he was born, grew up, and died.
  
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• Coronavirus strands merchant ship crews at sea for months

  04-06-2020 11:00 via lasvegassun.com
  For nearly four months, Capt. Andrei Kogankov and his oil tanker crew haven’t set foot on dry land. With global travel at a virtual standstill due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Russian captain was forced to extend his normal contract. He still doesn’t know when he’ll be able to go home.
  
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• Brooklyn bishop accused by second man of sex abuse

  04-06-2020 11:00 via lasvegassun.com
  The Roman Catholic bishop of Brooklyn, already under a church investigation for alleged sex abuse, has been accused by a second man of abuse in the 1970s, when the bishop was a parish priest in New Jersey.
  
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• 8:46: A number becomes a potent symbol of police brutality

  04-06-2020 11:00 via lasvegassun.com
  Eight minutes, 46 seconds is the length of time prosecutors say Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, was pinned to the ground under a white Minneapolis police officer's knee before he died last week.
  
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• 'Step in the right direction': George Floyd protest ends peacefully in Las Vegas

  04-06-2020 09:35 via lasvegassun.com
  For the first time since the protests began last week after George Floyd’s death, there was an open, and at some points amicable, dialogue between protesters and law enforcement ...
  
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• Washington protests peaceful amid show of force

  04-06-2020 06:15 via reviewjournal.com
  
  As the National Guard and law enforcement officers stood guard near the White House, surveillance planes kept watch on protesters in the nation’s capital from the air.
  
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• More than 100 charged with looting, assaults in California

  04-06-2020 06:15 via reviewjournal.com
  
  California authorities have charged more than 100 people with looting, assault and other crimes committed during and around protests while police in a San Francisco Bay Area city said Wednesday that a break-in suspect died after being shot by police who mistook his hammer for a gun.
  
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• Magnitude 5.5 quake strikes California desert region, is felt in Las Vegas

  04-06-2020 05:10 via lasvegassun.com
  A magnitude 5.5 earthquake has jolted the region of California desert where a powerful quake last summer was followed by thousands of aftershocks.
  
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• George Floyd tested positive for COVID-19, autopsy says

  04-06-2020 04:59 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A full autopsy of George Floyd, the handcuffed black man who died after being restrained by Minneapolis police, was released Wednesday and provides several clinical details, including that Floyd had tested positive for COVID-19.
  
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• Brees' anthem comments draw backlash from teammates, others

  04-06-2020 04:25 via lasvegassun.com
  Drew Brees was sharply criticized by fellow high-profile athletes, including some of his own teammates, on Wednesday after the Saints quarterback reiterated his opposition to kneeling during the national anthem.
  
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• Las Vegas in the mix to host Trump as he accepts GOP nomination

  04-06-2020 04:20 via lasvegassun.com
  Several states are vying to host President Donald Trump when he accepts his party’s nomination later this year, after Trump officially pulled the plug on ...
  
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• Prosecutors: 3 men plotted to terrorize Las Vegas protests

  04-06-2020 03:45 via lasvegassun.com
  Three right-wing extremists from Southern Nevada wanted to take advantage of the anger over George Floyd’s death in Minnesota and planned on inciting a riot. 
  
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• Senate passes fix for small-business coronavirus relief

  04-06-2020 03:36 via lasvegassun.com
  The Senate on Wednesday passed legislation to make it easier for businesses struggling during the coronavirus pandemic to take advantage of a payroll subsidy program that's been a central part of Washington's response to the corresponding economic crisis.
  
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• Ex-defense chief Mattis rips Trump for dividing Americans

  04-06-2020 03:32 via reviewjournal.com
  
  In an extraordinary rebuke, former defense secretary Jim Mattis on Wednesday denounced President Donald Trump’s heavy-handed use of military force to quell protests near the White House and said his former boss was setting up a “false conflict” between the military and civilian society.
  
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• Biden, Trump personify partisan divide on continuing protests

  04-06-2020 02:18 via reviewjournal.com
  
  One candidate encourages unity and understanding. The other urges a strong response to protests. The partisan divide over civil unrest between the two parties is personified by Joe Biden and Donald Trump.
  
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• Henderson golf course development nearing final approval

  04-06-2020 02:05 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The City Council unanimously approved with conditions a plan to develop the Black Mountain Golf and Country Club. It comes back to council for final approval this month.
  
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• As public restrooms reopen, how safe are they from coronavirus?

  03-06-2020 23:42 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Toilet plumes, the spray that results from a high-pressure flush, can spread fecal material and viral particles.
  
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• Obama discusses policing, civil unrest during virtual town hall

  03-06-2020 23:01 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The former president drew parallels between the unrest sweeping American currently and protest movements of the 1960s.
  
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• Former President Obama conducts virtual town hall — LIVESTREAM

  03-06-2020 23:01 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The former president will talk with young people to discuss policing and the civil unrest that has followed the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
  
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• Former President Obama conducts virtual town hall

  03-06-2020 23:01 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The former president will talk with young people to discuss policing and the civil unrest that has followed the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
  
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• In large study, malaria drug fails to prevent COVID-19

  03-06-2020 22:49 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The drug did not seem to cause serious harm, though — about 40% on it had side effects, mostly mild stomach problems.
  
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• Horsford signs on to committee to study racism in US

  03-06-2020 21:07 via reviewjournal.com
  
  More than 40 members of Congress have called for the establishment of a commission to study the effects of slavery, institutional racism and discrimination against people of color.
  
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• Senator: Floyd homicide charge to be upgraded; 3 others to be charged

  03-06-2020 20:33 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The Minnesota attorney general plans to upgrade the murder charge against officer in George Floyd case, a U.S. senator says.
  
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• 3 other officers charged in George Floyd’s death

  03-06-2020 20:33 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Prosecutors upgraded a charge against a Minneapolis police officer accused of pressing his knee against George Floyd’s neck and charged three other officers.
  
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• Clues in COVID-19 vaccine race come from monkeys, ferrets

  03-06-2020 20:01 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Even as companies recruit tens of thousands of people for larger vaccine studies this summer, behind the scenes scientists still are testing ferrets, monkeys and other animals in hopes of clues to those basic questions — steps that in a pre-pandemic era would have been finished first.
  
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• Nevada will expand testing, tracing with federal money

  03-06-2020 19:43 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Nevada will commit roughly $221 million in mostly federal money through 2021 to rebuilding state protective equipment stockpiles, expanding COVID-19 testing and contact tracing, and preparing a mass vaccination program.
  
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• Nevada officials to brief on testing, contact tracing plans — LIVESTREAM

  03-06-2020 19:43 via reviewjournal.com
  
  State officials were scheduled to brief reporters Wednesday morning on a comprehensive COVID-19 testing and contact tracing plan.
  
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• Nevada officials to brief on testing, contact tracing plans

  03-06-2020 19:43 via reviewjournal.com
  
  State officials were scheduled to brief reporters Wednesday morning on a comprehensive COVID-19 testing and contact tracing plan.
  
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• Breaking with president, Esper opposes using military for protests

  03-06-2020 18:24 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Esper said the Insurrection Act, which would allow Trump to use active-duty military for law enforcement in containing street protests, should be invoked in the United States “only in the most urgent and dire of situations.” He declared, “We are not in one of those situations now.”
  
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• Administration moves to block Chinese airlines from flying to US

  03-06-2020 17:56 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The Transportation Department said it would suspend passenger flights of four Chinese airlines to and from the United States starting June 16.
  
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• Las Vegas passes ban on backpacks at protests, while county delays

  03-06-2020 17:47 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Two Southern Nevada governments on Wednesday followed different courses on a proposal to ban backpacks, purses, luggage and other containers that can conceal dangerous materials at protests.
  
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• Clark County to consider ban on backpacks at protests after violence — LIVESTREAM

  03-06-2020 17:47 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The Clark County Commission on Wednesday will consider banning backpacks, large purses, luggage and other containers that can conceal dangerous materials at protests.
  
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• Clark County considers ban on backpacks at protests after violence

  03-06-2020 17:47 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The Clark County Commission on Wednesday will consider banning backpacks, large purses, luggage and other containers that can conceal dangerous materials at protests.
  
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