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Zynga recently filed a preliminary application for a gambling license in Nevada. We're not talking about gambling with Farmville credits, either. We're talking cold hard cash.
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A military training exercise in Nevada took a disastrous turn Monday evening when a mortar apparently exploded during a live-fire exercise and killed at least seven U.S. Marines and injured several others.
Zynga recently filed a preliminary application for a gambling license in Nevada. We're not talking about gambling with Farmville credits, either. We're talking cold hard cash.
The Election Day cliche in a close race is that "it all comes down to turnout," but it's coming down to turnout earlier this year. Because of early voting, 6.5 million Americans have already cast their ballots.
Obama's lead with women voters explains his national poll lead, McCaskill is up by just 1 point in her Missouri Senate race, and Obama is up by a whopping 11 points in a new poll out of Nevada. Here's our guide to today's polls and why they matter.
A Fox News poll finds people want change, but they don't want Romney, Nevada and North Carolina are not going the ways the parties expected, and Romney might be fighting in Iowa. Here's our guide to today's polls and why they matter.
The New Jersey governor may have appeared at the GOP convention last night, but a poll from his state shows Obama with a strong lead. Here's our guide to today's polls and why they matter.
Polls taken nationally and out of two swing states show a nail-biter. Here's our guide to today's polls and why they matter.
A man in Nevada apologized to his fellow movie patrons after the gun he was carrying fell from his pocket and went off, hitting him in the buttocks.
Obama leads in Washington, Nevada, and Wisconsin, where a small majority of voters think gay marriage should be illegal. Here's our guide to today's polls and why they matter.
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Ron Paul supporters took over the Nevada GOP earlier this month, so Mitt Romney and the Republican National Committee have opened dialogue with the libertarian about his philosophy and policy priorities. No, just kidding, they're pouring money into a "shadow state party" and trying to make the official party irrelevant.
It's a strange Constitutional quirk that the voters of only a couple states will be lavished with -- and tortured by -- attention from the presidential candidates till November.
Mitt Romney coasted to an easy victory in Saturday's Nevada caucuses. Next up: Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri.
President Obama hasn't been able to put enough pressure on House Republicans to get them to pass his jobs bill -- or to pass pieces of his jobs bill -- so his next step in his anti-"do-nothing Congress" campaign is to use the executive order.
That leaves Mitt Romney, Ron Paul, and Rick Perry will be vying for its delegates
Despite Western roots and Mormon heritage, he's being crushed by Romney in the state
The reshuffling of the primary calendar may end up with Iowa on Dec. 26
The rest of the GOP 2012 field will have a hard time matching his fundraising machine
And the first promise of his campaign he's sure to break
His scandal was an embarrassment, but Republicans expect to keep his Senate seat
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