Las Vegas Review-Journal
Massive winter storm underway
DALLAS — Freezing rain fell in parts of Texas on Friday as a huge, dayslong winter storm began a trek that threatened to bring snow, sleet, ice, bone-chilling temperatures and extensive power outages to about half the U.S. population. Forecasters...
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Ukraine’s Zelenskyy scolds European allies
DAVOS, Switzerland — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy blasted his European allies Thursday for what he portrayed as the continent’s slow, fragmented and inadequate response to Russia’s invasion nearly four years ago and its continued...
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Judge removes RJ staff
A judge removed Las Vegas Review-journal staff from her courtroom Wednesday because they refused to promise not to name an alleged victim testifying in the Nathan Chasing Horse sexual assault trial. An attorney for the Review-journal plans to...
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LV takes handoff, runs with it
MIAMI — The day after a thrilling College Football Playoff national championship Monday night in Miami, officials shifted their focus to Las Vegas for the 2027 edition of the mega event. At a handoff ceremony at the JW Marriott Marquis in downtown...
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Hit parade
Kids on Judge Mari Parladé’s election truck gesture toward the crowd Monday during the Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade downtown. More than 200 groups participated.
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Carefree, wild and multiplying
INSIDE a long-abandoned 1964 Chevy II Gasser in an industrial lot just north of the Strip, a grey tabby cat named Spice sat in the back seat, looking content on a cold January afternoon. Spice, who received her name because she has a tendency to get...
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Trump floats tariff threat
President Donald Trump threatened fresh tariffs on goods from nations that oppose his push to take control of Greenland, stepping up his rhetoric while Denmark hosted U.S. lawmakers on its home turf following meetings in Washington this week. “I may...
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Grass law draws lawsuit
A well-intended state law mandating the removal of Southern Nevada’s “useless grass” to conserve water has massively backfired, according to a new lawsuit. Filed Monday in District Court, the complaint alleges that an estimated 100,000 mature trees...
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Trial judge issues press limits
The judge overseeing the sexual assault trial of an alleged cult leader issued prohibitions on media coverage on Tuesday that legal experts said amounted to an unconstitutional gag order and that the Las Vegas Review-journal challenged in a letter to...
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‘Paradigm shift in police work’
AT the Metropolitan Police Department’s Fusion Watch and Drone Operations Center Wednesday afternoon, an alarm went off as rows of workers looked at a sea of screens that showed real-time feeds from cameras around Las Vegas. The alert — similar to...
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Colorado River paths unveiled
Offering a window into the five paths it will consider for the Colorado River, the Bureau of Reclamation released a road map to a seven-state deal. The agency released five alternatives to consider for managing the river on its website Friday. A...
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CES can be fun and games
People play classic arcade games on machines by My Arcade during the first day of CES 2026 on Tuesday at the Las Vegas Convention Center. The four-day event spotlighting the latest in consumer electronics runs through Friday.
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Carroll out, rebuild in
WITHIN the walls of the Raiders’ Henderson headquarters Monday, the firing of coach Pete Carroll felt less like a coaching change and more like a seminal moment. For the first time in what seems like forever, the Raiders have something significant to...
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‘It’s where innovation occurs’
HUNDREDS of the roughly 4,000 media members attending CES 2026 got an early look Sunday at some of the thousands of consumer electronics gadgets that will dominate multiple trade show floors across the city this week. The annual Consumer Electronics...
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Bird count makes for rare sights in Nevada
Eight pairs of eyes scanned the desert brush through binoculars for signs of life. Without notice, a flash of bright yellow quickly materialized, seizing attention — and raising eyebrows. This mixed-age group of voracious birders had stumbled upon...
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Vegas reputation lures revelers
Crowds gathered in Las Vegas on New Year’s Eve for a blowout bash that would be topped off, for the first time, by a drone light show along with the fireworks that traditionally are launched from hotel rooftops. Local officials projected more than...
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America’s Party of 10
The best place to watch Thursday morning’s eight-minute, $1 million “America’s Party” fireworks display and drone light show will be on the Strip between Resorts World Las Vegas and the Fashion Show mall, a representative of Fireworks by Grucci said...
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Central Kitchen is cooking
IN a city known for endless buffets and high-end dining, one of Las Vegas’ largest kitchens is rarely open to guests and only caters to kids. It’s in the far northeast valley, where workers at the Clark County School District’s Central Kitchen prepare,...
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Hitting slopes just got easier
RECENT facility improvements and a renewed emphasis on affordability at Lee Canyon’s ski resort are driving an increase in visitation to Southern Nevada’s largest destination for outdoor winter activities, operators said. Located about 53 miles...
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Vegas water ‘adaptation’
IT’S a no-brainer for many: As the outer boundaries of the Las Vegas Valley blur and thousands of homes pop up where only desert used to be, the bathtub ring around Lake Mead seems to only deepen. An ever-growing desert metropolis and worsening...
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Consulting tribes
BUILDING the nation’s largest lithium mine on public land means a federal agency must, by law, consult with the original, Indigenous stewards of the land. But what that looks like in practice varies widely in both legal interpretations and how tribal...
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Legal twists, turns
RENO — Inside Dean Barlese’s home on the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe reservation is a whiteboard with the numbers of tribal members who would drop everything to come to the beloved elder’s aid if needed. So are the crinkled lawsuit papers the...
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‘Landscape sacred’
Learning the protocol for “unanticipated discoveries” is a mandatory part of visitor training for the site where Lithium Americas, a mining company originally from Canada, plans to tear up the desert floor in search of lithium. Those skeletons on the...
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Taking on Goliath
OROVADA — The road to Thacker Pass goes through the ranching community of Orovada — literally. The unincorporated town, ripe with sprawling green fields not usually characteristic of the Nevada high desert, is a stopover as travelers head north on...
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County rental rules blocked
A U.S. District Court judge has granted a preliminary injunction that prevents Clark County from enforcing some of its short-term rental ordinances following a court hearing this month. Judge Miranda Du on Wednesday issued a 14-page order after the...
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Colo. River talks ‘going nowhere’
Seven Colorado River states appear to have made little progress on a deal that will have wide-reaching implications for the limited water supply that fuels the arid American West. Added at the end of the agenda of this week’s three-day Colorado River...
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Colo. River water deal timeline set
Federal officials gave the clearest timeline yet for when a breakthrough could come in closed-door negotiations over the water supply of 40 million Americans. On Wednesday, Assistant Secretary of Water and Science Andrea Travnicek said the public will...
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Life sentences given for striking cyclist
When Andreas Probst’s wife and children talk about him, they speak of absences. The weddings he will never attend, the grandchildren he will never hold, the calming figure who can no longer make them feel safe. “My husband deserved to live,” his...
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Rabbi: ‘Bring more light’
As the most visible Jewish holiday, Hanukkah is traditionally observed publicly with ceremonies such as the eight-day lighting of the menorah, Rabbi Shea Harlig of Chabad of Southern Nevada noted Monday. In the aftermath of an antisemitic terror...
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‘An act of pure evil’
Two gunmen opened fire during a Hanukkah celebration on Sydney’s Bondi beach, killing 15 people, including a child, officials said Monday, in what Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called an act of antisemitic terrorism that struck at the heart of the...
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Trump sued over White House reno
President Donald Trump was sued on Friday by preservationists asking a federal court to halt his White House ballroom project until it goes through multiple independent reviews and wins approval from Congress. The National Trust for Historic...
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ACA subsidies set to die
WASHINGTON — The Senate on Thursday rejected legislation to extend Affordable Care Act tax credits, essentially guaranteeing that millions of Americans will see a steep rise in costs at the beginning of the year. As Republicans and Democrats have...
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Police aid shopping fun
Santa traded his sleigh for a North Las Vegas police SWAT truck on Wednesday morning, joining a motorcade to kick off the department’s annual Shop with a Cop event. Brothers Logan and Elias Southern, 5 and 2, jumped and waved excitedly as Santa passed...
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A’s Badain: ‘See all of the progress’
Athletics’ president Marc Badain led the first media tour of the team’s under-construction $2 billion Las Vegas ballpark on Tuesday, giving a firsthand look at the progress being made on the project. After six months of heavy construction on the site...
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299 valley crash victims in 2025
Law enforcement agencies across the valley are joining forces, forming a traffic task force to decrease road fatalities. Metropolitan Police Department Deputy Chief Jose Hernandez said during a news conference at the “Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas”...
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Forever a Vegas showman
JERRY Lewis often referred to Sammy Davis Jr. as the greatest entertainer he’d ever seen. Lewis co-headlined Davis’ final shows on the Strip at Bally’s in 1988. • Lewis invoked Davis in Lewis’ own live-performance finale, at South Point Showroom in...
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Solar plant to remain open
The Ivanpah solar plant, off the Interstate 15, just across the state line from Primm, will continue to operate after the California Public Utilities Commission denied Pacific Gas & Electric Company’s contract termination agreement with the plant’s...
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Stepfather of boy, 11, testifies in road rage
The stepfather of an 11-year-old boy who was killed in a road rage shooting on the 215 Beltway last month testified Thursday that he was scared when the suspect first swerved at him and later drew a gun. Valente Ayala said through an interpreter in...
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Rodeo’s economics bullish
No one would have expected back in 1985 that the National Finals Rodeo would be the massive success that it has become. But now, 40 years later, it’s one of the toughest tickets to get, and what is considered the Super Bowl of rodeos is primed to...
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Nevada 4th grader lights Capitol tree
WASHINGTON — After a gray, rainy day at the U.S. Capitol, the clouds parted, revealing a sunset that one could call borrowed from the desert skies of Nevada. A bald eagle circled overhead, squirrels foraged under a manicured land
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Calif. official: ‘We cannot normalize this tragedy’
Family members were getting ready to cut the cake at a toddler’s birthday party when the gunfire started inside a banquet hall packed with relatives and friends over the weekend in California. “I actually thought it was my balloons popping. It was...
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Raiders lose 10th straight AFC West game, dating to ’23
INGLEWOOD, Calif. — The Raiders aren’t going anywhere until they can figure out how to win games in their division. That was far from the case Sunday when the Chargers easily handled them 31-14 at Sofi Stadium. Not only was it the Raiders’ sixth...
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Big crowds hit valley stores
Are doorbuster sales back? It depends on where you go and whom you ask. This Black Friday, Nevada shoppers flocked to their favorite malls and big-box stores to get a deal on their most-soughtafter holiday items. Some say the doorbuster is back, while...
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Quite thankful, indeed
The day before Thanksgiving, Cielo Steward said that she was grateful for sobriety. Steward, 39, waited in line Wednesday morning for a potluck meal at the Vegas Stronger headquarters. The nonprofit, located at 916 North Main St., helps people get off...
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Teen driver denied bail
A judge ordered a no-bail hold Tuesday for a driver who faces murder charges in connection with a fatal crash. Jose Gutierrez, 19, was arrested last week following the 12-vehicle crash on West Cheyenne Avenue near North Jones Boulevard. His pregnant...
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One race over, another just getting underway on Strip
A dayslong clearing of track barriers from the Formula One Las Vegas Grand Prix will bring Las Vegas Boulevard back to 95 percent capacity by Thanksgiving, according to race planners. Barrier removal began hours after the race ended Saturday night,...
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F1 feted as fuel for economy
THE Formula One Las Vegas Grand Prix is just what the city needed amid a mild tourism dip, the top executive at MGM Resorts said following the third straight sellout event for open-wheel auto racing fans. Bill Hornbuckle said having a major event like...
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Water deal deadline passes
INFORMATION, like water, is in short supply in the Colorado River Basin as seven states blew past the Trump administration’s deadline for an agreement. Tuesday was Interior Secretary Doug Burgum’s major deadline for the states to submit a framework...
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Persistence, forged by fire
Jan Millholland thought she knew almost everything about her late husband, but is still learning a lot about his military service. At 91, Paul Millholland died April 16 at the Henderson Hospital from respiratory failure, pneumonia and other...
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Expert: ‘Chill’ on flight fright
AN aviation analyst says the Federal Aviation Administration-ordered cuts in flights won’t be as bad as it sounds. Mike Boyd of Evergreen, Colorado-based Boyd Group International, said airlines are carefully choosing which flights to cut to...
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GOP: Offer ‘nonstarter’
WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader John Thune quickly swatted down a Democratic offer to reopen the government and extend expiring health care subsidies for a year, calling it a “nonstarter” as the partisan impasse over the shutdown continued into its...
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Golden CEO buying company
Golden Entertainment Inc. will go private under a deal announced Thursday that sees its chairman and chief executive, Blake Sartini, buying the business operations while real estate investment trust VICI Properties acquires its casino properties in a...
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Henderson official indicted
Henderson Councilwoman Carrie Cox was indicted Wednesday on a felony charge after authorities accused her of hiding behind a curtain and illegally recording a conversation involving a fellow councilwoman. Cox pushed back on the allegations in a brief...
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‘Among the finest public servants’
Dick Cheney, the hard-charging conservative who became one of the most powerful and polarizing vice presidents in U.S. history and a leading advocate for the invasion of Iraq, has died at 84. Cheney died Monday due to complications of pneumonia and...
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$6.5M awarded over police killing
A federal jury awarded $6.5 million Monday to the parents and estate of an armed protester killed by Las Vegas police in 2020, ruling against some officers and in favor of others. The civil jury found Metropolitan Police Department officer Ryan Fryman...
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‘You can’t drink money’
Little-understood groundwater flows and mining in this desert region don’t mix — a complexity some feel is lost on a federal administration focused on “energy dominance” at all costs. That’s at least according to a somewhat unlikely coalition of...
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Reserves for SNAP ordered
Southern Nevada’s only food bank is moving ahead with several emergency food distribution events Saturday, despite federal court rulings Friday ordering that President Donald Trump’s administration must continue funding nutritional aid amid a weekslong...
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Trump, Xi roll back tension
President Donald Trump and China’s top leader Xi Jinping agreed to extend a tariff truce, roll back export controls and reduce other trade barriers in a landmark summit on Thursday, potentially stabilizing relations between the world’s biggest...
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Tourism drop continues
Summer visitation to Southern Nevada ended on a sour note as the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority on Wednesday reported an 8.8 percent downturn in tourism in September, the ninth straight month of declines. The poor performance was expected...
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Charter schools get $51M lift
A grant worth nearly $51 million from the U.S. Department of Education will help expand access to charter schools in Nevada, a Las Vegas-based nonprofit announced Tuesday. Opportunity 180, a nonprofit that says its aim is to improve children’s access...
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SNAP to run dry soon
Federal rules prevent Nevada from directly funding a food program that helps feed half a million state residents, even as it’s slated to run out of money Saturday because of the government shutdown, Gov. Joe Lombardo wrote in a letter. Nevada’s...
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China, U.S. tee up trade deal
Top trade negotiators for the U.S. and China said they came to terms on a range of contentious points, setting the table for leaders Donald Trump and Xi Jinping to finalize a deal and ease trade tensions that have rattled global markets. After two...
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Shutdown disruptions continue
The Pentagon said it received an anonymous $130 million donation to pay the military during the U.S. government shutdown, a move the administration might not legally be able to carry out. The donation came as the ongoing government shutdown continues...
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‘Luck has run out’
A prosecutor said Thursday that former NBA player and coach Damon Jones, arrested in Las Vegas as part of a federal probe into Mafia-linked gambling scams, has a “very serious gambling problem.” Jones, 49, is charged with several others in an...
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East Wing gives way to ballroom
President Donald Trump is demolishing the entire East Wing of the White House to build a ballroom at the property, he said Wednesday, in a move exceeding the original scope of the project. Trump told reporters he had undertaken “really a tremendous...
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‘Better than I expected’
Vice President JD Vance on Tuesday called progress in Gaza’s ceasefire better than anticipated but acknowledged during an Israel visit the challenges that remain. Vance noted flareups of violence in recent days but said the ceasefire between Israel...
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‘Your choices killed 2 children’
A judge ordered a 24- to 60-year prison sentence Monday for a woman who killed two children in a crash while driving a stolen vehicle. Nikki Serrat, 33, pleaded guilty in September to three counts of failing to stop at the scene of a crash involving...
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Renewed fighting tests peace
JERUSALEM — Gaza’s fragile ceasefire faced its first major test Sunday as Israeli forces launched a wave of deadly strikes, saying Hamas terrorists had killed two soldiers, and an Israeli security official said the transfer of aid into the territory...
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‘Special, special group’
Pink wigs and tambourines stretched along Toshiba Plaza for as far as the eye could see. Thousands of fans stretched along Park Avenue to congratulate the Aces on the Strip for the third time since 2022. Such a celebration called for a concert that...
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‘A RESILIENT COMMUNITY’
His guitar was one of the only things he managed to escape with as he fled for his life. On Oct. 7, 2023, Israeli ethnic-rock pioneer Micha Biton’s home of Netiv Haasara was attacked by Hamas. After spending 13 hours in a safe room with his wife and...
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October? Frightful. Snow? Delightful!
Lee Canyon’s Brad Rubin, the terrain parks and trail crew manager, tosses shoveled snow off their office deck with marketing director Johnny Degeorge as the first significant snowfall of the season covers the ground and trees in Mount Charleston on...
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Celebration, service merge at synagogue
Liz Breier isn’t a member at Congregation Ner Tamid, but she was sure to be at the congregation’s Henderson synagogue near Valle Verde Drive and the 215 Beltway Tuesday evening. Because of a recent medical procedure, Breier, 75, was using a walker,...
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’YOU ARE ALIVE!’
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt — President Donald Trump pressed world leaders gathered at a summit on Gaza’s future to ensure the U.s.-led truce between Israel and Hamas terrorists turns into a lasting peace, hailing the agreement as a “new beginning” for the...
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Fast lane to victory lane
Denny Hamlin (11) celebrates with his team in victory lane after winning the NASCAR Cup Series South Point 400 race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway on Sunday in Las Vegas.
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