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On Monday, a father in Clark County, Nevada, showed up to a Clark County School Board meeting and stunned the board members when he served them with papers in the middle of his speech. “This is segregation based off of your own fears and your own personal interests,” the unidentified father told the school board members. “The people in this country have had enough, and we are fighting back.” “I have something to give you,” he said. He called security and asked them to do him a “favor,” asking “Would you please hand those forms to the board members?” As...

Jon Gruden's Raiders contract settlement still unresolved after coach's resignation in light of leaked emails (Cannot be posted due to FR rules)

Gruden criticized the emergence of women in the NFL as officials and called for the dismissal of players protesting the playing of the national anthem. He also said in an email that the Rams shouldn’t have been been pressured into drafting “queers” when the team took Michael Sam, who was the first openly gay player drafted. Gruden referred to Biden in 2012 when he was vice president as a “nervous clueless pu$$y” during an email exchange with former Washington executive Bruce Allen. He also called Roger Goodell a “clueless anti football pu$$y.”

Las Vegas police have arrested a couple in a carjacking and shooting in central Las Vegas on Saturday afternoon that left a woman gravely wounded. Edchela Robinson, 20, of Phoenix, and her boyfriend, Jaylynn Brown, 17, of Las Vegas, were each charged with attempted murder and multiple other felonies in the attack at an apartment complex on the 6200 block of West Tropicana Avenue, near South Jones Boulevard. Las Vegas police said in arrest reports for the couple that a female motorist was sitting in her car at the apartments, talking on her cell phone at 2:57 p.m. when she...

VAN HALEN singer David Lee Roth will retire after the last concert of his Las Vegas residency in January. "I'm throwing in the shoes," Roth told the Las Vegas Review-Journal on Friday (August 1). "I'm retiring. This is the first, and only, official announcement. … You've got the news. Share it with the world." He added: "I'm not going to explain the statement. The explanation is in a safe. These are my last five shows." Roth also reflected on the passing of his longtime bandmate, legendary VAN HALEN guitarist Eddie Van Halen, who died of cancer a year ago. "I...

The Asian bomb has exploded, Tesla Giga Shanghai is shipping cars abroad.Tesla’s cars are fast, but they’re snails compared to the team that built the electric carmaker’s factory in SHANGHAI, CHINA—the company’s first Gigafactory outside of the United States.The project signals ambition at Tesla that goes beyond China. CEO Elon Musk has described the Shanghai factory as the automaker’s “TEMPLATE FOR FUTURE GROWTH.” Tesla Gigafactory Shanghai could very well be Tesla’s ace-in-the-hole this year, thanks to the rapid ramp of its Model 3 and Model Y production.So HOW STRATEGICALLY IMPORTANT IS GIGA SHANGHAI FOR TESLA?Tesla recently said that it has...

Renderings have been released of an eye-opening Las Vegas resort that takes the form of a giant moon. Its name? 'Moon', naturally. According to the Canadian entrepreneurs behind it, it would cost £3.6billion ($5billion) to build and, with a height of 224 metres (735ft), would become the joint-second-tallest building in Sin City with the JW Marriott, which is currently the second-loftiest structure behind the 350m- (1,149ft) tall Strat Observation Tower. The celestial retreat – which would be the world's largest sphere - features 4,000 hotel rooms, a 'crater café', a spa, a casino, a lagoon and guests seeking a space-age...

Nevada Republican Lt. Governor candidate Mack Miller was assaulted by police and violently dragged from a Clark County Commissioners Meeting.

Former Sen. Dean Heller (R-Nev.) said Monday he will run for governor in Nevada next year, reentering politics three years after he lost his seat in a Democratic wave. In a video posted Monday, Heller cast himself as a conservative opposed to mask mandates, defunding the police and lockdowns in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. “After serving Nevada in the Senate, I thought I was done with politics,” Heller says. “But look what’s happened to Nevada. We have a governor more interested in putting us out of work than putting us back to work. Las Vegas became a sanctuary...

A Los Angeles jury convicted Robert Durst on Friday of murdering his best friend 20 years ago in a case that took on new life after the New York real estate heir participated in a documentary that connected him to the slaying linked to his wife's 1982 disappearance. Durst, 78, was convicted of the first-degree murder of Susan Berman, who was shot at point-blank range in the back of the head in her Los Angeles home in December 2000 as she was prepared to tell police how she helped cover up his wife's killing. Berman, the daughter of a Las...

On Tuesday, Clark County commissioners in Las Vegas will be voting on whether to ban free speech so they can push the vaccine onto the public without resistance.I wish I were kidding, but this is the same state that had no problem banning people from attending church, forcibly closing small businesses (but not large ones) allowing companies to illegally mandate vaccine passports on people, and demanding teachers and faculty be forcibly vaccinated against their will or be fired (they are now hiring unqualified people to teach students to fill the gap.) An overwhelming majority of the public that that was...

<p>An Idaho man who served more than four years in federal custody for his part in an armed 2014 standoff against federal agents near states’ rights figure Cliven Bundy’s Nevada ranch is suing the U.S. government and prosecutors for damages.</p>

President Joe Biden stumbled through parts of his Tuesday briefing on Hurricane Ida, leaving the definition of a tornado unclear. Biden visited New York and New Jersey to observe the damage caused in recent days by Hurricane Ida. He discussed the impact of the storm, as well as other devastating weather incidents around the nation and how they relate to climate change. “We’ve got to make sure that we don’t leave any community behind, and it’s all across the country,” Biden said at a press conference in New Jersey. It was all looking normal until Biden had another brain freeze....

Some staffers in the Biden White House would rather miss their boss speak in public than endure another gaffe, according to a new report. Anxiety about what President Joe Biden might say if he takes questions from the media drives some in the White House to mute him or turn off his public appearances altogether, Politico reported Tuesday, citing White House officials. Anxiety about what President Joe Biden might say if he takes questions from the media drives some in the White House to mute him or turn off his public appearances altogether, Politico reported Tuesday, citing White House officials....

Former Walmart executive and e-commerce billionaire Marc Lore wants to build the world’s first woke city from scratch — somewhere in the US. Lore last week unveiled plans for his utopia, called Telosa, from the ancient Greek word Telos, meaning "highest purpose." "The mission of Telosa is to create a more equitable, sustainable future. That’s our North Star," Lore said in a promotional video. "We are going to be the most open, the most fair and the most inclusive city in the world." Key to the city’s plans is Lore’s economic vision, called "Equitism," in which the land upon which...

The Model Y is Tesla’s newest available vehicle and also the company’s most popular car in several markets, including the United States...In February, Tesla officially filed to have the spring structure made permanent by filing with the City of Fremont to add a 64,000 square foot expansion to the factory. In July, Tesla officially started making GA 4.5 a permanent part of the company’s production facility by adding underground sewer connections for plumbing and creating foundational work for the spring structure to sit on...Tesla has been making tremendous strides toward improving GA 4.5, especially as demand for the company’s vehicles...

A mother in Las Vegas has called for a substitute teacher’s resignation after the woman allegedly taped masks onto children’s faces in a fourth-grade classroom. Speaking with KVVU-TV, the mother, who wished not to be identified, said she was “furious” after her she learned of what happened to her 9-year-old son at Reedom Elementary School in Mountain’s Edge. “I was furious, furious. I was scared for my son on what kind of long-term effect it is going to have on him socially, the fact that the entire class was laughing,” she said. The moment allegedly happened. The mother said: He...

Elon Musk has told Tesla employees that the automaker is aiming to release its previously announced $25,000 electric car in 2023. The CEO hinted that it might not even be equipped with a steering wheel. At Tesla Battery Day last year, CEO Elon Musk announced that Tesla will be making a $25,000 electric car. The CEO commented in the announcement: Tesla will make a compelling $25,000 electric vehicle that is also fully autonomous. He made it clear that this new price point is achieved through Tesla’s new battery cell and battery manufacturing effort, which could reduce battery costs by over...

A man was caught in 4K by his boss at the Las Vegas Raiders vs. San Francisco 49ers preseason game last weekend after calling out sick. TikTok user king_killakelv shared the text message exchange with his boss. “Hey boss I need the day off today. Not feeling well,” he said in a message sent to his boss. The boss responded and told him to take the day to rest. He later checked on his employee and asked if he was feeling any better. The man responded: “I’m okay just relaxing.” Relaxing… at Levi’s Stadium… on live television. The boss snapped...

The poor air quality on Monday resulted in canceled flights and closures of schools, parks and popular summer beaches in the Reno and Lake Tahoe areas. The National Weather Service said prevailing winds from the west mean “significant smoke and air quality impacts” will continue much of this week, affecting Reno, Lake Tahoe, Carson City and other areas. In Las Vegas, more than 400 miles (644 kilometers) south of Reno, Clark County air quality officials issued a smoke advisory for Tuesday.