Posted: 4:14 PM When President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping sat down for dinner, they feasted on several dishes prepared by one of America's top chefs.

Updated: 8:06 AM Nevada lawmakers needed several extra hours early Tuesday morning to finish the state's legislative business for the next two years. Now as the session has come to a close it is apparent who is leaving Carson City smiling and who is not.

Posted: 9:54 AM Newark Mayor Cory Booker is officially a candidate for U.S. Senate in New Jersey.

Updated: 8:56 PM Amid thousands of phone calls to his office, Governor Brian Sandoval said he will reject a measure expanding instances of when background checks must be done for gun-buyers.

Posted: 1:34 PM Nevada cars will soon be sporting bright blue plates to mark 150 years of statehood.

Updated: 12:29 PM A pregnant Texas actress who told FBI agents that her husband had sent ricin-tainted letters to the president and New York City's mayor has been arrested.

Updated: 11:31 AM Nevada's congressional representatives don't want the government to blacklist cities because they're too fun.

Updated: 11:36 AM President Barack Obama is defending his government's secret surveillance, saying Congress has repeatedly authorized the collection of America's phone records and U.S. internet use.

Updated: 5:30 PM Sex trafficking is being defined in Nevada's statutes for the first time in state history, and the penalties for associated crimes just got tougher.

Updated: 3:55 PM The tension between California and Nevada over development management at Lake Tahoe has subsided.

Updated: 5:38 PM Governor Brian Sandoval's office has received thousands of phone calls about a bill dealing with background checks for gun-buyers, according to a spokesperson for Sandoval.

Posted: 10:55 AM Nevada is defining sex trafficking in state law and toughening penalties for crimes associated with it.

Posted: 10:56 AM Companies will soon be able to organize as "benefit corporations" in the Silver State, allowing them to focus on environmental impacts as well as profits.

Updated: 7:23 PM The legislative session may have some to an end, but whether a bill aimed at repairing local schools will be signed is unknown. The measure advanced to Governor Brian Sandoval's desk the final day of the session. Sandoval has ten days to consider bills he receives following the close of the session.

Posted: 11:51 AM President Barack Obama has named United Nations ambassador Susan Rice to take over as national security adviser in a shakeup of his foreign policy team.

Posted: 3:01 PM Vice President Joe Biden is headed to Las Vegas later this month to speak at conferences for the nation's mayors and a Latino advocacy group.

Posted: 11:06 AM New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says he wants to hold a special election in October to fill the U.S. Senate seat left vacant by Frank Lautenberg's death on Monday.

Posted: 9:15 AM Gov. Brian Sandoval is calling Nevada lawmakers back to work Tuesday to finish five matters that failed to get done before the 2013 legislative session ended at midnight Monday.

Updated: 6:47 PM Sleep-deprived Nevada lawmakers quickly passed all five bills they had to deal with in a special session called overnight by Gov. Brian Sandoval.

Updated: 8:36 AM Voters in Henderson, Reno, Carson City and Sparks will continue electing public officials via citywide elections.

Posted: 6:40 AM Conservative groups targeted by the Internal Revenue Service are having their say on Capitol Hill just as the details of another IRS controversy are being made public.

Updated: 6:49 PM The 2013 Nevada Legislature has adjourned, ending a four-month session that will be remembered for the expulsion of a troubled lawmaker, historic votes on gay marriage, gun control and unrealized ambitions of tax reform.

Updated: 6:39 AM Nevada lawmakers made short work on a late-session measure to settle a decade-long dispute and cement a $233 million settlement over taxation of free meals provided by casinos.

Updated: 6:42 AM Nevada lawmakers are paving the way for a new energy environment in the Silver State for decades to come.

Updated: 6:55 PM A bill mandating universal background checks on all gun sales in Nevada is on its way to the governor's desk having cleared the Legislature.