Today, President Biden is in the West on a trip heavily focused on bolstering fellow Democrats in advance of next month’s midterm elections. His first stop is Colorado, where he designated Camp Hale as a new national monument, delivering on a key priority for Sen. Michael F. Bennet (D-Colo.), who faces a competitive reelection bid. Other stops in coming days include California and Oregon.
Meanwhile, the latest in a string of debates in marquee Senate races — this one between Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and his Democratic challenger, Mandela Barnes — is scheduled Wednesday night. Earlier in the day, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments, including in a case about the “fair use” doctrine in copyright law.
In a letter obtained by the Nevada Independent, 14 of Laxalt’s relatives endorsed his opponent, incumbent Senate Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto. While Laxalt’s relatives don’t mention him by name in the endorsement, they praise Cortez Masto’s record in the Senate and say they believe she “possesses a set of qualities that clearly speak of what we like to call ‘Nevada grit.’ ”
This isn’t the first time members of Laxalt’s family have turned out against him. Laxalt, the grandson of former Nevada governor and U.S. senator Paul Laxalt, drew rebukes from his family when he ran for governor in 2018 and claimed that he had been raised in the state. In an op-ed at the time, Laxalt’s family pointed out that, while he was born in Reno, he left Nevada as an infant,...
Vadodara/Surat. A special CBI court has convicted four individuals in a 23-year-old fire insurance fraud case in Gujarat and sentenced each of them to three years of rigorous imprisonment. The cou...