Whether in villages on the coast of Ghana or in the mountains of Rwanda, asking for people's poop is a good icebreaker, Mathieu Groussin says. "Everybody laughs," says Groussin, a microbiologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge. "Especially when we stress that we need the whole fecal sample and show them the big bowl."

When is it too much?

When does a city whose cursed baseball team fed a gargantuan sense of civic grievance and self-pity lose something by winning again and again?

How big of a problem hate speech is in Las Vegas is unclear because it is difficult to track, experts say.

There are just five days left until voters hit the polls next Tuesday for the mid-term elections. The silver state is set to play a big part in the balance of power on capitol hill.

There are just five days left until voters hit the polls next Tuesday for the mid-term elections. The silver state is set to play a big part in the balance of power on capitol hill.

CBS News' "Red & Blue" visited Las Vegas and UNLV to cover the 2018 election. The show aired live from UNLV's campus and featured interviews with UNLV faculty and students.

CBS News' "Red & Blue" visited Las Vegas and UNLV to cover the 2018 election. The show aired live from UNLV's campus and featured interviews with UNLV faculty and students.

In most countries and regions today, after a child is born, a doctor or midwife will announce that the life is a "boy" or a "girl" by observing the external genitalia.

Heller voting for the "skinny repeal" of Obamacare has given his Democratic opponent a chance to paint him as a Trump-aligned Republican who is now scrambling to moderate his health-care position.

On a gritty stretch of road, a stone’s throw from the Las Vegas Strip, sits the Erotic Heritage Museum. A cavernous 24,000 square-foot space, the building is filled with erotic art, artifacts and exhibits that run the gamut from educational to political to whimsical.

After years of bottom-of-the-barrel education rankings, Nevada lawmakers adopted a number of reforms in 2015, including increased funding for low-income students and English language learners, universal education savings accounts, and the creation of a statewide district to take over failing schools.

In a battle of billionaires, Sheldon Adelson and Warren Buffett are squaring off over who controls the power that keeps the bright lights blazing in Las Vegas and across Nevada.