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LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Governor Steve Sisolak launched the “Home Means Nevada” initiative Thursday morning by announcing a $500 million program for affordable housing in Nevada. It will be the single largest investment in affordable housing in the state’s history and will complement the $300.7 million earmarked by the Nevada Housing Division earmarked for affordable housing projects through its tax-exempt bonding authority.

While Elon Musk is trying to buy Twitter Inc., he’s no longer the company’s largest shareholder. Funds held by Vanguard Group recently upped their stake in the social-media platform, making the asset manager Twitter’s largest shareholder and bumping Mr. Musk out of the top spot. Vanguard disclosed on April 8 that it now owns 82.4 million shares of Twitter, or 10.3% of the company, according to the most recent publicly available filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The asset-manager increased its stake in the company at some point during the first quarter, according to the filings. Vanguard’s holdings...

Noted military historian Edward N Luttwak, who has penned numerous volumes on the grand strategies of empires, including that of the former Soviet Union, says that the Ukraine war will result in the political demise of Russian president and strongman Vladimir Putin due to a raft of reasons, including the prospects of an unwieldy occupation and the rising tide of discontent back home. Luttwak, a cold warrior now in his late 70s, had negotiated with Soviet generals and officials in his prime as an American interlocutor in the height of tensions between the United States and the USSR. He avers...

Republican gubernatorial candidate Charles Herbster and his campaign called accusations against him of sexual assault "libelous" and "100% false" in a statement Thursday afternoon, and accused political rivals Jim Pillen and Pete Ricketts of political dirty tricks. A report published Thursday by the Nebraska Examiner said eight women, including state Sen. Julie Slama, have alleged Herbster of sexual misconduct, with all of the incidents happening between 2017 and 2022. Slama confirmed the Examiner's account in a statement Thursday morning, saying she was touched inappropriately by Herbster during a Republican event in 2019.“I indirectly referenced the assault in a February 2022...

A Florida family has been charged with hate crimes after they allegedly beat a gay man so severely that he was left blinded. Inna Makarenko, 44, Yevhen Makarenko, 43, and 21-year-old Oleh Makarenko are accused of attacking the 31-year-old victim after allegedly breaking into his Pompano Beach home last summer.

​Stephen Miller, a former White House adviser to Donald Trump, ​appeared Thursday ​before the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, according to a report. Fox News reported that Miller, who was subpoenaed in November along with a number of other former Trump administration officials, joined the committee virtually.

Florida became the latest Republican-led state to clamp down on abortion rights after Governor Ron DeSantis signed a law Thursday that bans the procedure after 15 weeks. Red states have launched a new wave of pro-life restrictions over the last year, as the Supreme Court weighs a historic challenge that could see federal protections on abortion rolled back completely. The Sunshine State's new law, which takes effect July 1, contains exceptions if the abortion is necessary to save a mother's life, prevent serious injury or if the fetus has a fatal abnormality. It does not make exceptions for rape, incest...

Florida governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill banning abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy on Thursday. The new legislation will go into effect on July 1. The Florida House voted 78-39 almost entirely along party lines to pass the law in February, while the Senate passed the bill in March. The bill allows exemptions for women who face life-threatening or serious injuries from pregnancy, or if the fetus has a fatal defect.

WASHINGTON (AP) — With his sweeping domestic agenda on hold and images of horror in Ukraine dominating headlines, President Joe Biden is scrounging for ways to demonstrate that he’s still making progress for Americans at a time when many feel the country is heading in the wrong direction. Six months out from the midterm elections, Biden’s team is betting that smaller, discrete announcements can break through to voters better than talk of transformational plans that are so far only aspirational. Last week, that meant aides positioned big rigs outside the White House so Biden could talk about efforts to get...

FILE IMAGE - Now that the 2022 spring season has arrived, N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission officials are cautioning N.C. residents to leave young wildlife, like this baby bunny, alone if they happen upon them. Other common wild offspring that people enjoying the outdoors might come into contact with include fawns and young songbirds. Wildlife officials say, "if you care, leave them there." (Photo credit: WLOS staff) Facebook Share Icon Twitter Share Icon Email Share Icon WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA, N.C. (WLOS) — As the 2022 spring season has sprung and the sight of baby animals is ramping up across Western North...

Russian Navy cruiser Moskva sank while being towed in a storm- Russian Ministry of Defence quoted as saying

The Republican National Committee said Thursday it was withdrawing from the Commission on Presidential Debates, alleging that the organization was biased in favor of Joe Biden and against Donald Trump during the 2020 campaign. The commission has organized all general election debates between major-party candidates since 1988 and it’s unclear how 2024 debates would proceed — if at all — as Trump teases a possible rematch against Biden. RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel vowed her organization would “find newer, better debate platforms to ensure that future nominees are not forced to go through the biased CPD in order to make their...

Nebraska gubernatorial candidate Charles Herbster has been accused of sexual misconduct by eight women, prompting a bipartisan group of state senators to call for an end to the Republican’s campaign. “We commend the brave women who have stepped forward to tell the truth about what they endured at the hands of Charles Herbster, including our friend and colleague, Senator Julie Slama,” a statement signed by Slama, a Republican, and a dozen other state senators, said.

China's financial hub Shanghai has started easing its lockdown in some areas on Monday, despite reporting a record high of more than 25,000 new Covid-19 infections, as authorities sought to get the city moving again after more than two weeks

#NewJersey A woman is in critical but stable condition at University Hospital after being struck by a car multiple times early Tuesday morning in #Elizabeth, according to a spokeswoman for the City of Elizabeth. pic.twitter.com/6qon0EOkd3 — The Daily Sneed™ 🇺🇸 (@Tr00peRR) April 13, 2022 VIDEO AT LINK ........................... ELIZABETH, New Jersey (WABC) -- A man in Elizabeth, New Jersey, has been arrested and charged with attempted murder after officials say he ran down a woman, severely injuring her. It happened Monday morning on Salem Avenue and Aberdeen Road, where witnesses say the victim and the suspect, 56-year-old Vincent Jean, who...

FOR MONTHS DURING the lockout, Major League Baseball players had a consistent gripe about the system they were attempting to change -- a gripe to which fans, too, could relate. At issue is a strategy that has become commonplace in baseball: Tanking. Popularized during World Series title runs first by the Chicago Cubs and then the Houston Astros, tanking has become an often-imitated way to rebuild. Instead of risking mediocre play that keeps a team stuck in the middle, a team will trade away veteran players and bottom out. The club will then start over with small payrolls, load up...

Breaking911 @Breaking911 Pres. Biden says "for four years, I was a full professor at the University of Pennsylvania." Video at link

Hypercar newcomer Deus Automobiles has emerged from the shadows of Vienna, Austria, to throw its hat into the "world's most powerful cars" ring. Its Vayanne super-coupe puts out four figures' worth of all-electric power and torque on its way to screeching from 0 to 62 mph in under two seconds and topping out just under 250 mph. But as odd as it feels to say, by the time the car launches in 2025, 2,200 horsepower might just be too little too late for "world's most powerful" bragging rights. Time will tell. An outrageously powerful "production-oriented" Austrian hypercar concept penned to...

A Muslim woman in eastern Uganda added poison to the food of her husband, a former Islamic teacher who converted to Christianity about a week earlier, after noticing him praying in the name of Christ, according to a report. Hiire Sadiki, 56, who put his faith in Christ on March 27, is recovering in a hospital in Butaleja District, Morning Star News reported. Sadiki, who is from Masjidi Uthuman in Nawanjofu village, was poisoned on April 2, as he had declined to observe the Islamic rituals of Ramadan and his wife noticed him praying in the name of Christ. “She...

Howard University announced it will shift some classes online due to the rise of COVID-19 cases on campus, joining other Washington, D.C.-based universities that have tightened restrictions amid the outbreaks. In a statement on Wednesday, HU officials said the COVID-19 positivity rate at the school has increased from 2 percent to 5 percent over the past week, which they attributed to the spread of the BA.2 omicron subvariant, now the dominant strain in the U.S.