Nevada&#39;s Reid picked as leader
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WASHINGTON - Senate Democrats yesterday elected Harry Reid of Nevada as their new minority leader, and Reid prodded Republicans to join him in working across party lines over the next two years.
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Presidential hopeful Barack Obama has won an endorsement from the Nevada chapter of the Service Employees International Union, boosting his prospects against rival Hillary Rodham Clinton in Nevada's upcoming Democratic caucuses.
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Mark Latham was re-elected leader of the Australian Labor Party, one of Australia&#39;s biggest political parties, here Friday. Jenny Macklin was returned to the deputy&#39;s position.
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CARSON CITY -- Despite the record $833 million tax increase and the possibility Nevada will go for President Bush, Democrats could pick up seats in both the state Senate and Assembly in Tuesday&#39;s election.
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Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid accepted free ringside tickets from the Nevada Athletic Commission to three professional boxing matches while that state agency was trying to influence him on federal regulation of boxing.
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SANTA FE, NM Voters in yet another state will have the option of picking Ralph Nader for president. New Mexico&#39;s Supreme Court has ordered that Nader&#39;s name be put on the November ballot as an independent candidate.
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When Congress targeted Nevada as the nation's nuclear waste dumping ground, the state didn't have the political power to say no. Twenty years later, the most ardent foe of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump is about to become Senate majority leader. Nevada Democratic Sen. Harry Reid's new job, which gives him control over what legislation reaches the Senate floor, could deal a crippling blow to the already stumbling project.
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In a deal to let 175 of President Bush's nominees take office, an adviser to new Democratic leader Harry Reid, the Senate's staunchest opponent of a nuclear waste dump in Nevada, will be named to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
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A federal judge on Thursday allowed Nevada Democrats to hold presidential voting in casino hotels on the Las Vegas Strip, potentially helping Sen. Barack Obama in the next round of the campaign on Saturday.
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Federal judge rules the Nevada Democratic party can hold caucuses at Las Vegas casinos
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RENO, Nevada  - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama took a small lead over rival Hillary Clinton in Nevada ahead of Saturday's caucus, the party's next contest, according to a poll released on Monday.
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POLOKWANE, South Africa  - South Africa's ruling ANC chose a leader on Tuesday, a vote in which Jacob Zuma was expected to oust President Thabo Mbeki as party head and put himself on course for the presidency.
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President Bush and Democratic Sen. John Kerry began a 19-day sprint to the Nov. 2 election on Thursday in the swing state of Nevada, where the White House rivals renewed their fight over who offered the best leadership for the middle class.
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Fast-growing Nevada had hoped to play an influential part in selecting the nominees for this year's presidential election, but with the state's caucuses a week away, Republican voters are not seeing many candidates.
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Home Secretary John Reid's handling of last week's alleged terror plot has left him in a good position to run for the leadership of the governing Labour Party once Prime Minister Tony Blair steps down, lawmakers said.
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Nevada Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori became the first woman to lead any church in the global Anglican Communion when she was elected Sunday to be the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church.
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Since the new Congress convened, Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) have emerged as the Senate's odd couple, the even-tempered McConnell hurling parliamentary brickbats at the quirky Reid with an even smile and a "Who, me?" shrug.