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Amber Thompson, left, manager at Kidz Preschool, with her daughters Emmery, center, and Breella.

Expanding the child tax credit has some Republican support. Now what?

Republicans and Democrats have been juggling proposals for the credit — currently a $2,000-per-child tax incentive — as Congress renegotiates the country’s tax structure.

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Three takeaways from JD Vance’s visit to Nevada

The Republican nominee for vice president held events in Las Vegas and Reno, where he encouraged early voting and blamed an influx of undocumented immigrants for many of the problems facing Americans.

What made Sam Brown run (again)

Brown's desire to represent Nevadans — to be a politician — was formed even before he arrived, in the destabilizing tribulations of a military leader with a belief in service whose near-death experience in Afghanistan left him without a constituency to guide and a conviction that his life has divine purpose.

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