Six Republican defendants are accused of plotting to give Donald Trump Nevada’s electoral votes in 2020, even though Joe Biden won the state.
Politics and Government
Direct investments into mining companies have come without needed congressional oversight, three lawmakers say.
There have been increased calls by critics of Homeland Security to require all of the department’s officers who are responsible for immigration enforcement to wear body cameras.
The jobs report and other key economic statistics were previously delayed by a record 43-day government shutdown last fall.
President Donald Trump said Sunday he will move to close Washington’s Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for two years starting in July for construction.
Nevada Assemblywoman Michele Fiore, R-Las Vegas, has filed as a candidate with the Federal Election Commission to run for U.S. Rep. Joe Heck’s 3rd Congressional District seat.
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid has asked the Federal Election Commission for an opinion on whether he can tap his campaign fund to pay for a full-time assistant after he’s retired from the Senate.
A conservative think tank grading Nevada lawmakers on their performance on behalf of taxpayers in the 2015 legislative session found only 20 of 63 who achieved favorable voting records.
Andrew Matthews quit his paid job as president of the Nevada Policy Research Institute when he decided to run for Congress. As a Republican candidate in the 3rd Congressional District, he is now getting paid from his campaign funds.
A group called The Coalition for Nevada’s Future on Thursday filed a legal challenge to a referendum sought by GOP anti-tax advocates who want to put the new commerce tax on the 2016 general election ballot for repeal.
The Senate on Tuesday narrowly rejected an amendment that U.S. Sen. Dean Heller of Nevada said would have strengthened privacy protections to a cybersecurity bill that was later approved by the upper chamber.
Political action groups have already put a more than half a million dollars into the three congressional district races in Southern Nevada.
Democratic presidential contender Martin O’Malley is calling for the end of legal immunity for firearms dealers who sell to mass shooters without background checks.
A group led by state Controller Ron Knecht has filed a referendum petition with the Secretary of State’s office seeking to ask voters in 2016 to repeal a new commerce tax approved by the 2015 Legislature.
Danny Tarkanian has raised nearly $350,000 in his first fundraising quarter in a bid for Nevada’s 3rd Congressional District.