Reps. Dina Titus, a Democrat, and Mark Amodei, a Republican, cruised to re-election Tuesday.
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Democrats seized control of the House on Tuesday while Republicans increased their majority in the Senate in a midterm election that fell short of a massive “blue wave” but served as a referendum on President Donald Trump’s policies and his first years in office.
A surge in early voting enthusiasm has Democrats hopeful they will take control of the House for the first time in eight years, while President Donald Trump’s hard-line blitz on immigration has Republicans confident they will keep their Senate majority.
Despite the president’s election-eve comments suggesting a change in his stance on nuclear waste storage in Nevada, the state and political opponents are preparing for another administration and congressional push to revive the Yucca Mountain licensing process.
President Donald Trump arrived Tuesday to offer America’s support and to grieve with survivors of a deadly synagogue shooting as the Jewish community began burying its dead with funerals for three of the 11 victims.
Heroic stories about those who tried to save Jewish worshippers amid gunfire and chaos emerged Monday as the community tried to begin healing following the tragic synagogue shooting that claimed 11 lives.
An overwhelming sense of anguish was palpable throughout a suburb of this industrial city Sunday as the community flocked for a second evening to pay tribute to the victims of a synagogue slaying here.
With less than two weeks before the midterm election, analysts for a nonpartisan group that promotes civic participation projected Wednesday that 7.8 million Latinos will vote this year.
Sen. Dean Heller has a slight lead in his re-election bid against Jacky Rosen, but likely Nevada voters are motivated to cast a ballot against President Donald Trump, giving Democrats opportunity to take the GOP seat, according to a new poll out Wednesday.
Nevada Democrats seized Tuesday on President Donald Trump’s wobble on Yucca Mountain, urging him to follow through with his campaign-season equivocation and keep the nuclear repository in Nevada in a mothballed state.
LGBT leaders were quick to mount a response and protest Monday to a Trump administration proposal for a new definition of gender that activists said would strip transgender Americans of civil rights and protections.
A Democratic takeover of the House in November would likely mean the elevation of Rep. Dina Titus of Las Vegas to chair of an oversight committee with investigative powers and increased scrutiny of President Donald Trump’s real estate holdings in the nation’s capital.
Immigration policies by the Trump administration are fueling interest among Latino voters in the upcoming midterm election, a new poll shows.
A university-owned nuclear reactor in Arkansas is being contained after cleanup efforts and readied for transport to the Nevada National Security Site where it will be disposed.
With less than 30 days before Nov. 6, the midterm election is largely seen as a referendum on Trump’s performance, which political strategists on both sides claim has energized their voter base.