The decison comes after Clark County released 22,323 votes Saturday night that saw Cortez Masto pick up 14,084 votes to Laxalt's 8,239.
The 62-year-old is the first woman elected as New York’s attorney general and the first Black person to serve in the role.
Leahy is the senior-most member of the Senate, having first been elected in 1974.
President Donald Trump has returned to the White House and a very different Washington, D.C., after losing his reelection bid.
President Trump has nominated Amy Coney Barrett to fill the Supreme Court seat left open by the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
The Republican National Committee and President Trump’s campaign say they have now hired 1,500 field staffers.
Nevada's four members of the U.S. House are all seeking reelection this year, but more than three dozen people have filed to run against them.
President Trump is citing low unemployment rates for African Americans and passage of a criminal justice bill providing earlier release for thousands of federal drug offenders as examples of how he’s helping the black community.
New York Rep. Peter King says he will not seek reelection in 2020. The 14-term Republican congressman says in a Facebook post Monday morning that the "prime reason" behind his decision was the commute.
Republican U.S. Rep. Mark Amodei appears to have lost a spot helming President Trump's reelection campaign in Nevada after comments he made last month about the impeachment inquiry.