23+ hour, 13+ min ago   (554+ words) Our children will thank us later. Should the United States follow Australia's lead in banning children under 16 from social media platforms? Absolutely. Australia has set a new global standard by requiring platforms to act in children's best interests. Its new…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (370+ words) The most painstaking research is on his side. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has plenty of unsubstantiated theories, but his latest controversy involves following the science. HHS is pushing back against so-called gender-affirming care for children under…...

1+ week, 14+ hour ago   (430+ words) At Centennial Hills Hospital, a baby was born 19 seconds into the new year, and Summerlin Hospital's first baby arrived at 12:13 a.m. The first babies of 2026 at two Las Vegas hospitals arrived just after the new year began, hospital officials said. At…...

4+ week, 4+ hour ago   (681+ words) If you want to develop human intelligence, you can't let students rely on artificial intelligence. Generative AI will transform the world, even if no one is quite sure what the end product will look like. These are artificial intelligence programs…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago   (274+ words) Clark County School District numbers mean little. The Review-Journal's Dec. 29 editorial was correct about graduation rates "improving" at the Clark County School District being a total sham. Nevada's public education system ranks 50th out of 51, just ahead of last place Washington,…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago   (193+ words) Making things easier for students. Simply put, early start times for schools are unhealthy in addition to being inconvenient. The advantages of later start times are obvious. For example, a one-hour delay in start times at Seattle high schools resulted…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (228+ words) What will the universities do about it? Mike Obstgarten's "Academic fraud: Grade inflation is a scourge that must be eradicated" (Nov. 23 commentary) reminded me of a midterm grade I received my first semester in college. It was an easy course,…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (978+ words) The event was coordinated by the nonprofit Nevada Partnership for Homeless Youth and Las Vegas Sands, which featured remarks from Nevada Democratic U.S. Rep. Dina Titus Armeir Hymes will always remember Oct. 17, 2023, as the day that changed his life for the…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1087+ words) Each November, we observe National Diabetes Month and engage in discussions surrounding prevention, management and the impact of this increasingly common autoimmune disease. Diabetes, both Type 1 and Type 2, are conditions that affect the way the body uses food for energy....

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (888+ words) UNLV's School of Dental Medicine opened its new Advanced Needs Dental Clinic. The new space is at 1700 West Charleston Boulevard. Since the coronavirus pandemic, according to James Mah, the dean of UNLV's School of Dental Medicine, it's been difficult for…...