Nevada’s 3rd Congressional District issues

Twenty-one candidates are vying to replace U.S. Rep. Jacky Rosen, who represents Nevada's 3rd Congressional District and is leaving the House to run for the Senate. Twenty-one candidates are vying to replace U.S. Rep. Jacky Rosen, who represents Nevada's 3rd Congressional District and is leaving the House to run for the Senate.

Trump to pardon Dinesh D’Souza for campaign finance violations

President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he would offer a full pardon to conservative pundit Dinesh D'Souza, who pleaded guilty in 2014 to violating federal campaign finance laws but later said he was targeted for his conservative views. "Will be giving a Full Pardon to Dinesh D'Souza today," Trump wrote on Twitter on Thursday.

Vela: President manufacturing crisis with zero-tolerance immigration policy

ACLU Border Advocacy Strategist, Michael Seifert, along with Juanita Valdez-Cox of L.U.P.E, US Rep., Filemon Vela, Rochelle Garza, an attorney from Brownsville and Amber Arriaga with Projecto Azteca Equal Voice Network during a round table discussion of the "no tolerance" at the Lower Rio Grande Development Council in Weslaco Wednesday, May 30, ... (more)

Missouri governor out amid probes stemming from extramarital affair

Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens, a sometimes brash political outsider whose unconventional resume as a Rhodes scholar and Navy SEAL officer made him a rising star in the Republican Party, resigned Tuesday amid a widening investigation that arose from an affair with his former hairdresser. The 44-year-old governor spent nearly five months fighting to stay in office after the affair became public in January in a television news report that aired immediately following his State of the State address.

The Latest: US prosecutor prioritizes illegal California pot

McGregor Scott, right, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of California, flanked by California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, center, discusses an increase in the use of a banned pesticide at illegal marijuana farms hidden on public lands Tuesday, May 29, 2018, in Sacramento, Calif. Research by Mourad Gabriel, left, the executive director and senior ecologist at Integral Ecology Research Center, and his colleagues found the highly toxic pesticide Carbofuran, which can't legally be used in the Unites States, at 72 percent of grow sites last year, up 15 percent from 2012.

Trump reopens fight over migration

President Trump's latest attempts to blame Democrats for separating migrant families at the Mexican border is renewing a political uproar over immigration. The issue has challenged Trump throughout his presidency and threatens to grow more heated as he imposes more restrictions to stem the flow of illegal immigration.

Supreme Court will soon rule on gay rights, gerrymandering, unions

The Supreme Court is heading into the final month of its term, facing decisions on gerrymandering, unions, gay rights, abortion and President Donald Trump's travel ban. This term's best-known case is a culture-war clash that pits equal rights for gay customers against a claim of religious liberty from a Christian store owner.

Montana Democrats sense a chance to capture US House seat

For more than two decades, Montana's lone U.S. House seat has been a sacrificial altar where Democratic candidates' dreams are squashed. Not only have all 12 Democratic candidates since 1996 lost to Republicans, but only two of them have since gone on to win any election at all.

White-Collar Prosecutions Fall to 20-Year Low Under Trump

The number of white-collar prosecutions is on track to hit a 20-year low under President Donald Trump, after reaching a high in 2011 during the Barack Obama administration, according to a nonprofit research center that analyzes government data. A total of 3,249 cases were brought during the first seven months of the U.S. government's 2018 fiscal year, which runs from October 2017 to April 2018, according to a case-by-case analysis of government data by Syracuse University's Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, or TRAC.

Taming the ‘animals’ of MS-13: Trump takes his gang crackdown to the suburbs

ICE agents frisk a suspected MS-13 gang member after arresting him at his home on March 29, 2018, in Brentwood, N.Y. For the second time in a year, President Trump will travel to Long Island Wednesday for a forum on combatting MS-13, the small but violent street gang that has been a central focus of his crackdown on illegal immigration. Outside the pockets of Long Island and a handful of communities in Maryland, Virginia, and California where MS-13 is mostly active, Trump's apparent obsession with the gang - whose membership of predominantly Central American immigrants makes up the focus on MS-13 rather than bigger threats.