With less than hour to spare, the Senate late Friday backed legislation averting a government shutdown as coal-state Democrats retreated on long-term health care benefits for retired miners but promised a renewed fight for the working class next year.
Politics and Government
The CIA has concluded in a secret assessment that Russia intervened in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump win the presidency, rather than just to undermine confidence in the U.S. electoral system, according to officials briefed on the matter.
President-elect Donald Trump says Rudy Giuliani is taking himself out of consideration for a position in his administration.
President Barack Obama will appear on “The Daily Show With Trevor Noah” Monday, Comedy Central announced.
Leading Senate Republicans are preparing to launch a coordinated and wide-ranging probe into Russia’s alleged meddling in the U.S. elections and its potential cyberthreats to the military, digging deep into what they view as corrosive interference in the nation’s institutions.
Donald Trump is gone from the boardroom of NBC’s reboot of “Celebrity Apprentice” but he’s kept a business connection to the reality show.
New commemorative plaque, letter from Gov. Sandoval aimed at ensuring that state’s namesake battleship and crew continue “inspiring sailors for as long as there is a United States Navy.”
Sen. Harry Reid heard tributes from Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi and Reid’s successor as minority leader, Sen. Chuck Schumer, in a ceremony for the unveiling of a portrait of Reid that will hang in the Capitol.
A limited recount of presidential ballots cast in Nevada confirmed the results of the Nov. 8 election and eliminated the possibility of a statewide recount, the secretary of state’s office said Thursday.
Governor delivers homemade cookies to one guardsman during Pentagon-sponsored visit to Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and Afghanistan.
The nation’s growing renewable energy sector won’t be derailed by the transition to a new, seemingly less favorable presidential administration. That was the underlying message Thursday at a ceremony celebrating the completion of Nevada’s newest and largest solar power station.
Owners of popular but politically challenged zoo looking for new homes for menagerie of exotic animals by month’s end.
A $425,000 grant from the city of Las Vegas will go toward an expansion of the Neon Museum.
A senior U.S. military official for the first time says the U.S.-led coalition has killed 50,000 Islamic State militants in the last two years in Iraq and Syria.
Leonardo DiCaprio and the head of his foundation met Wednesday with President-elect Donald Trump to discuss how jobs centered on preserving the environment can boost the economy.