A Year After the Las Vegas Shooting, Gun Control Advocates Are Getting Out the Vote in Nevada
A woman carries a “Vegas Strong” poster at the March For Our Lives event in Las Vegas, Nevada, on March 24, 2018.Damairs Carter/MediaPunch/IPX Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In Nevada, politics paused October 1. The one-year anniversary of the deadliest mass shooting in US history began with a sunrise vigil…
Puerto Rico’s Governor Just Came Out in Support of Florida Democrats
Andrew Gillum speaks to supporters after he was endorsed by Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló during a campaign rally Monday. John Raoux/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló endorsed Florida’s Democratic candidates for governor and senator Monday, following months of intense campaigning by politicians hoping to…
What an Explosive Story About Devin Nunes’ Family Farm Means for His High-Profile House Race
Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.)Bill Clark/ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Yesterday, Esquire dropped a story exposing a “politically explosive secret” about Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.)—one that he and his family have been harboring for more than decade. Nunes’ oft-repeated origin story is that he’s a local boy with a…
Things Are Going Great for Almost Every Democratic Senate Candidate—With One Big Exception.
Scott Anderson/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Heading into the 2018 midterm elections, Democrats faced long odds of taking back the Senate. With 10 incumbents up for reelection in states carried by President Donald Trump—five representing places he carried by double digits—the party needed just about everything to go…
California College Students Won’t Have Access to Medication Abortions on Campus
Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On the last day he could sign or veto bills from the California Legislature’s latest session, Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed SB 320, which would have required all 32 University of California and California State University campuses to provide students with access to medication abortions at…
In Landmark Court Ruling, Nevada Can’t Use a Controversial Drug to Execute an Inmate
Sue Ogrocki/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A judge has made it nearly impossible for the state of Nevada to execute a death row inmate. Clark County District Judge Elizabeth Gonzalez banned prison officials from using its supply of midazolam, a controversial sedative responsible for several botched executions in the…