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News Tipoffs - Nevada Editors Newsletter for Friday February 20, 2026 ( 8 items )  

Attorney General James Releases Statement on Live Nation Lawsuit
ALBANY, New York, Feb. 18 -- New York Attorney General Letitia James issued the following news release: * * * Attorney General James Releases Statement on Live Nation Lawsuit * New York Attorney General Letitia James today released the following statement after the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York rejected Live Nation's attempt to have all claims dismissed in an antitrust lawsuit filed by Attorney General James, a bipartisan coalition of 40 other attorneys general, a  more

BLS Issues Report on State Job Openings and Labor Turnover December 2025
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 (TNSLrpt) -- State Job Openings and Labor Turnover December 2025 - A report from U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics - Feb. 19, 2026 (22 pages) * * * Job openings rates decreased in 6 states in December, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Over the month, hires rates decreased in 3 states and increased in 1 state. Total separations rates increased in 9 states and decreased in 2 states. Nationally, the job openings, hires, and total separation  more

Cortez Masto, Senate Democrats Investigate EPA's Attempts to Roll Back Climate Protections
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 -- Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nevada, issued the following news release: * * * Cortez Masto, Senate Democrats Investigate EPA's Attempts to Roll Back Climate Protections * Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) joined U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and 40 of their Democratic Senate colleagues in launching an investigation into Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin's decision to repeal the 2009 endangerment fi  more

Funding Education Opportunity: About One in Four Students is Chronically Absent
LOS ANGELES, California, Feb. 19 -- The Reason Foundation issued the following news: * * * Funding Education Opportunity: About one in four students is chronically absent School districts may need to implement new policies to encourage students to attend school more regularly. By Jude Schwalbach When public schools remained closed for months during the COVID-19 pandemic, they sent students and families a harmful message: missing a lot of school is ok. Before the pandemic, only 15% of stud  more

Rosen Calls on Trump Administration to Overturn Harmful Rule Limiting Veterans' Benefits
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 -- Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nevada, issued the following news release: * * * Rosen Calls on Trump Administration to Overturn Harmful Rule Limiting Veterans' Benefits * New Trump VA Rule Would Lower Veterans' Disability Rating If Medication Improves Symptoms WASHINGTON, DC - Today, U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV) called on the Trump Administration to overturn a new VA rule that affects how the Department of Veterans Affairs determines disability compensation, which could resu  more

Rosen Statement on Republicans' Ongoing Opposition to ICE Reforms, Republican Shutdown of Department of Homeland Security
WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 -- Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nevada, issued the following news release: * * * Rosen Statement on Republicans' Ongoing Opposition to ICE Reforms, Republican Shutdown of Department of Homeland Security * WASHINGTON, DC - Today, U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV) released the following statement on Congressional Republicans' ongoing shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security because of their refusal to support ICE guardrails. Senator Rosen also reaffirmed her commitment to fight  more

University of East Anglia: Rising Simultaneous Wildfire Risk Compromises International Firefighting Efforts
NORWICH, England, Feb. 19 (TNSjou) -- The University of East Anglia issued the following news: * * * Rising simultaneous wildfire risk compromises international firefighting efforts The most high-risk conditions for fires are increasingly happening across countries at the same time, making resulting wildfires even more challenging to tackle, new research reveals. Scientists from the University of East Anglia (UEA) and University of California, Merced (UC Merced) found this synchronised extre  more

University of Nevada: Journalist Jon Ralston Partners With Libraries' Special Collections Department to Research His Book on Harry Reid
RENO, Nevada, Feb. 20 -- The University of Nevada issued the following news: * * * 'The Game Changer' Journalist Jon Ralston partners with Libraries' Special Collections department to research his new book on Harry Reid Jill Stockton Journalist Jon Ralston has covered Harry Reid beginning with his first Senate race in 1986, continuing until the Senator's passing in December of 2021. Now he's published a new book, a biography, titled, "The Game Changer - How Harry Reid Remade the Rules and   more