Las Vegas celebrity Dan Bilzerian has shoveled mounds of money into Nevada politics, allowed by a legal loophole that lets him give the maximum over and over again to the same candidate through corporate entities, records and interviews show.

She loves raisin bran and exercise, and is as comfortable talking about abortion as she is about beer. Meet Kamala Harris -- or at least a rather different side that emerged in an unconventional US media blitz this week. After weeks of largely avoiding interviews since becoming the Democratic presidential nominee, Harris has taken a leaf out of rival Donald Trump's playbook and started speaking to a host of podcasters and friendly outlets.

A 26-year-old real estate investor and entrepreneur seeks to deny the former chair of the Florida Democratic Party a third term in the Florida House and capture one of the last two Florida House seats held by Democrats between Jacksonville and Pensacola.

The insurance industry contributed more than $60 million during the current 2023-24 election cycle, according to Open Secrets, a nonprofit organization tracking campaign donations and lobbying. There are more donations to be counted before the Nov. 5 election, but the insurance industry is well behind the $127 million donated in the 2019-20 election cycle. The off-year 2021-22 election cycle netted $83 million in donations from insurers.

Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are neck and neck in the swing state of Nevada with less than two months to go until the November election, new polling shows.

Since fall 2018, the Nevada Alliance has poured more than $7 million into the coffers of left-leaning groups and to support ballot initiatives in Nevada, making it one of the 10 most active donors in state-level politics during that period, according to an analysis by The Nevada Independent.

A Californian knocked on the door of a Summerlin house and was met with no answer. “Normally I wait about a minute,” the 24-year-old said. He’d been out canvassing for hours under the searing Las Vegas sun. Sterling Raiklen is one of seven men in their 20s who uprooted from a different state and moved to Nevada after seeing an advertisement for a political volunteer role online.

Vice President Kamala Harris’ rapid rise to the top of Democratic ticket hasn’t just reset the 2024 presidential election — it may have disrupted the battle over the Senate majority taking place in the West. Nevada, Arizona and Montana are three of a handful of “toss-up” Senate seats Democrats are defending to retain a majority in Congress’ upper chamber where they currently govern with 51 seats compared to Republicans’ 49.