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ADVANCE FOR USE WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 26, 2018 AND THEREAFTER-FILE - In this Sunday, Aug. 26, 2018 file photo, David Hogg, center, a survivor of the school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, in Parkland, Fla., addresses a rally in front of the headquarters of gun manufacturer Smith &amp; Wesson in Springfield, Mass. The rally was held at the conclusion of a 50-mile march meant to call for gun law reforms. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

AP: No sea change on gun laws in wake of mass shootings

By RYAN J. FOLEY - Associated Press

ADVANCE FOR USE WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 26, 2018 AND THEREAFTER-FILE - In this Sunday, Aug. 26, 2018 file photo, David Hogg, center, a survivor of the school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, in Parkland, Fla., addresses a rally in front of the headquarters of gun manufacturer Smith &amp; Wesson in Springfield, Mass. The rally was held at the conclusion of a 50-mile march meant to call for gun law reforms. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

AP: No widespread changes in gun laws after recent shootings

By RYAN J. FOLEY - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 21, 2017 file photo, Celine Dion poses in the press room at the Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas. Dion has announced she will end her Las Vegas residency next year. The singer announced on social media Monday, Sept. 24, 2018, that she will leave Caesars Palace in June 2019. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)

Celine Dion to end Las Vegas concert residency next year

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FILE - In this June 22, 2018, file photo, former first lady Michelle Obama speaks at the American Library Association annual conference in New Orleans. Obama is set to appear in Las Vegas on Sunday, Sept. 23, to rally voter registration volunteers and encourage people to vote in the November elections. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

The Latest: Michelle Obama urges Nevadans to register, vote

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In this Sept. 5, 2018, photo, Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington. Combat won out over caution. White House aides and congressional allies worked all week to keep President Donald Trump from unloading on the woman who has accused Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Trump picks combat over caution in court fight

By JONATHAN LEMIRE and CATHERINE LUCEY and ZEKE MILLER - Associated Press

Police probing deaths of 4 in Nevada home as murder-suicide

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FILE - In this Oct. 3, 2017, file photo, windows are broken at the Mandalay Bay resort and casino in Las Vegas, the room from where Stephen Craig Paddock fired on a nearby music festival, killing 58 and injuring hundreds on Oct. 1. An unprecedented legal move by MGM Resorts International to sue surviving victims of the Las Vegas mass shooting took another unusual turn Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2018, when the casino-operator offered to make $500 charitable donations in the name of each person who waives or has their lawyer accept legal notice of the lawsuits. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

Judge’s choice: State, federal venue in Vegas shooting cases

By KEN RITTER - Associated Press

The Latest: Police give ages of 4 found dead in Nevada home

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In this Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2018 photo, Gabe Williams works on a exhibit at the Cannabition cannabis museum in Las Vegas. The museum celebrating all things cannabis with displays that include a glass bong taller than a giraffe and huggable faux marijuana buds is the newest tourist attraction in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Get ready for ‘Bongzilla,’ selfie frenzy at Vegas pot museum

By REGINA GARCIA CANO - Associated Press

FILE- In this April 20, 2018, file photo, Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., speaks at a picnic for veterans in Las Vegas. Democrats hoping to take control of the U.S. Senate in November believe one of their best chances to pick up a seat this year lies in battleground Nevada, where Sen. Dean Heller is the only Republican running for re-election in a state that Democrat Hillary Clinton carried in 2016. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

The Latest: Heller, Trump praise each other in Las Vegas

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Washington Nationals' Erick Fedde in action during the first game of a baseball doubleheader against the Philadelphia Phillies, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2018, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum) **FILE**

Erick Fedde hopes solid end to season leads to Nationals starting job in spring

By David Driver — Special to The Washington Times

The Latest: Portraits tell stories of Las Vegas victims

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FILE - In this July 14, 2018, file photo, people, left, talk to tellers while placing bets at the Meadowlands Racetrack, in East Rutherford, N.J. Dozens of states are rushing to capitalize on the U.S. Supreme Court lifting a federal ban on sports gambling. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

Easier gambling has sports worried about fighting the fix

By David Porter and Regina Garcia-Cano - Associated Press

Brad Keselowski celebrates after winning a NASCAR Cup Series auto race Sunday, Sept. 16, 2018, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Isaac Brekken)

Brad Keselowski wins NASCAR playoff opener, gets 500th for Penske

By Greg Beacham - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 16, 2014 file photo, what was once a marina sits high and dry due to Lake Mead receding in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area near Las Vegas. Water officials in Las Vegas aren’t giving up a nearly 30-year effort to obtain state approval to pump groundwater and pipe it to the state’s biggest city from arid valleys just west of the Utah state line. Southern Nevada Water Authority board members voted Thursday, Sept. 13, 2018, to appeal a decision by Nevada's top state water official that denied the agency key groundwater use rights in vast rural parts of Lincoln and White Pine counties. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

Authority will appeal key Vegas pipeline water rights ruling

By KEN RITTER - Associated Press

The Latest: Police post video of gunman in wounded girl case

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Police: 1 man dead in North Las Vegas school shooting

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FILE - In this Aug. 17, 2017, file photo, Nevada death row inmate Scott Dozier, right, confers with Lori Teicher, a federal public defender involved in his case, during an appearance in Clark County District Court in Las Vegas. The Nevada Supreme has rescheduled oral arguments for Sept. 21, 2018, in Carson City on a challenge by three pharmaceutical companies of the use of their products for Dozier's execution. Prison officials want to reschedule Dozier's twice-postponed lethal injection for mid-November. (AP Photo/Ken Ritter, File)

Nevada high court says execution doctor’s name stays secret

By KEN RITTER - Associated Press

Vegas man accused of killing child found in Illinois garage

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FILE - In this Feb. 18, 1997, file photo, Rick Higgs, Device Assembly Facility, DFA, manager, shows a model of the interior of the $100 million facility which sits at the Nevada Test Site 85 miles northwest of Las Vegas in Mercury, Nev. Gov. Brian Sandoval and members of Nevada's congressional delegation want the federal government to halt a plan to ship weapons-grade plutonium from South Carolina to this federal facility about 100 miles from Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Lennox McLendon, File)

Nevada officials vow to fight federal plutonium storage plan

By KEN RITTER - Associated Press