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Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo leaves the stage at a groundbreaking for a high-speed passenger rail on Monday, April 22, 2024, in Las Vegas. A $12 billion high-speed passenger rail line between Las Vegas and the Los Angeles area has started construction. (AP Photo/Ty ONeil)

Nevada governor backs volleyball players boycotting game over transgender rival

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Nevada Independent CEO and editor Jon Ralston, left, and Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo, right, speak during The Nevada Independent's "IndyTalks" series on Wednesday, March 6, 2024 at the National Automobile Museum in Reno, Nev. (AP Photo/Gabe Stern)

Nevada’s Joe Lombardo stands by Trump amid legal battles, distances himself from GOP ‘fake electors’

By Gabe Stern - Associated Press

Newly sworn-in Gov. Joe Lombardo speaks during his inauguration ceremony in the Carson City Community Center in Carson City, Nev., on Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2023. Lombardo is requesting that the state's interim finance committee allocate $3.2 million in unallocated federal COVID-19 relief funds to maintain existing private school scholarships that his office says will soon run out. (Jason Bean/The Reno Gazette-Journal via AP, File)

Nevada governor files lawsuit challenging censure, fine for use of police uniform, badge in campaign

By Gabe Stern - Associated Press

Newly sworn-in Gov. Joe Lombardo speaks during his inauguration ceremony in the Carson City Community Center in Carson City, Nev., on Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2023. Lombardo is requesting that the state's interim finance committee allocate $3.2 million in unallocated federal COVID-19 relief funds to maintain existing private school scholarships that his office says will soon run out. (Jason Bean/The Reno Gazette-Journal via AP, File)

School choice debate not over as Nevada’s governor has a plan to fund private school scholarships

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Newly sworn-in Gov. Joe Lombardo speaks during his inauguration ceremony in the Carson City Community Center in Carson City, Nev., on Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2023. Lombardo is requesting that the state's interim finance committee allocate $3.2 million in unallocated federal COVID-19 relief funds to maintain existing private school scholarships that his office says will soon run out. (Jason Bean/The Reno Gazette-Journal via AP, File)

Nevada governor seeks to use coronavirus federal funds for waning private school scholarships

By Gabe Stern - Associated Press

This rendering provided by the Oakland Athletics on May 26, 2023, shows a view of their proposed new ballpark at the Tropicana site in Las Vegas. The Nevada Legislature is set to convene Wednesday, June 7, for a special legislative session to consider whether to provide $380 million in public financing for a stadium that would host the Oakland Athletics on the Las Vegas Strip. (Courtesy of Oakland Athletics via AP) **FILE**

Bill to help finance a Las Vegas ballpark for Oakland A’s passes Nevada Senate, heads to Assembly

By Gabe Stern - Associated Press

Clark County Sheriff and Nevada Gov.-elect Joe Lombardo gives a victory speech during a news conference, Nov. 14, 2022, in Las Vegas. Lombardo, Nevada's Republican governor, is facing an almost $1.7 million ethics penalty for wearing his badge and uniform as Las Vegas-area sheriff in campaign photos and on social media ahead of his election in 2022. (AP Photo/Ellen Schmidt, File)

Nevada’s GOP governor facing $1.7M ethics penalty for campaigning with sheriff’s badge, uniform

Associated Press

Nevada Gov.-elect Joe Lombardo speaks with supporters at Rancho High School in Las Vegas, Monday, Nov. 14, 2022. Even as Nevada lawmakers adjourned their four-month legislative session, a plan to help build a stadium for the Oakland Athletics in Las Vegas is still in flux. (Steve Marcus/Las Vegas Sun via AP, File)

Oakland Athletics’ move to Las Vegas in flux as Nevada Legislature adjourns

By Gabe Stern - Associated Press

Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo speaks at the old Assembly Chambers in Carson City, Nev., May 30, 2023. Lombardo vetoed a bill Thursday, June 1, that would have made the western swing state the first to criminalize anybody who signed certificates falsely stating when a candidate wins a certain state to Washington D.C., or so-called “fake electors.” Six Nevada GOP members signed certificates falsely stating that former President Donald Trump won Nevada in 2020 and sent them to Congress and the National Archives, where they were ultimately ignored. (AP Photo/Tom R. Smedes, File)

Nevada’s Republican governor vetoes bill that would criminalize fake electors

By Gabe Stern - Associated Press

Nevada Governor-elect Joe Lombardo answers a question while taking part in a panel discussion during a Republican Governors Association conference Nov. 16, 2022, in Orlando, Fla. Gov. Lombardo issued a terse five-point ultimatum Thursday, May 25, 2023, and declared he "will not sign any budget bills until my priorities are addressed." (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack, File)

Partisan split over Nevada budget threatens sports stadium, film tax credit

By Gabe Stern - Associated Press

Democratic treasurer Zach Conine addresses reporters at a press conference to outline the priorities of Democrats who control Nevada's state Legislature on Wednesday, May 3, 2023, in Carson City, Nev. With about a month left in Nevada's biennial legislative session, the state's Democratic leadership and Republican governor have dual visions for how the state should pass laws and use its historic budget. (AP Photo/Gabe Stern)

Dual visions for Nevada as Legislature enters final stretch

By Gabe Stern - Associated Press

Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo, Republican candidate for governor of Nevada, speaks to supporters during an election night campaign event Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Trump-endorsed Sheriff Joe Lombardo defeats Nevada governor

By Ken Ritter - Associated Press

Nevada Republican gubernatorial nominee Joe Lombardo participates in a gubernatorial race debate during IndyFest at Worre Studios, Sunday, Oct. 2, 2022, in Las Vegas. Nevada Democratic Governor Steve Sisolak and his Republican challenger, Clark County Sheriff Lombardo, are meeting for their only scheduled debate of this election year. (AP Photo/Ellen Schmidt)

GOP candidate tepid on Trump in Nevada gubernatorial debate: ‘I wouldn’t say great’

By Gabe Stern - Associated Press

FILE - Donald Trump, left, his son Donald Trump Jr., center, and his daughter Ivanka Trump speak during the unveiling of the design for the Trump International Hotel, in Washington, Sept. 10, 2013. Former President Trump and two of his children got their questioning postponed Friday, July 15, 2022, in a New York civil investigation into their business dealings, a delay that follows the death of Trump’s ex-wife Ivana. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Report finds Trump’s ‘cesspool of crime’ comment missed mark

By Colton Lochhead and Nick Robertson - Associated Press

A National Guardsman stands guard at a fence that runs along the Rio Grande near the International bridge in Del Rio, Texas, Sept. 17, 2021. A year into the Joe Bidens presidency, though, action on the immigration system has been hard to find and there is growing consternation privately among some in the party that the Biden administration cant find the right balance on immigration. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Report: Vegas police quietly give jailed immigrants to feds

By Michael Scott Davidson - Associated Press