Billionaire businessman Donald Trump inched closer to the US Republican presidential nomination after easily out- distancing his rivals in the Nevada caucus, giving him his third win in four early nominating contests.

Donald Trump ran the table in Nevada on Tuesday night, winning nearly 46 percent of the vote to pick up his third win in a row. He won across a variety of subgroups — including Hispanics — which now begs the question: Can anyone halt his march to the nomination?

Mark Cuban threw some serious shade at politicians who want to ban fantasy sports in a USA Today opinion piece published this week. The Dallas Mavericks owner and host of Shark Tank argued that the popular game of skill wasn’t going anywhere despite reports predicting the industry’s demise.

UNLV has selected a new executive vice president and provost to serve as the school's second-in-command under President Len Jessup.

The beauty of the Barrick Museum lies not only in its rotating contemporary art exhibits, but also in its educational, interactive art-making events: the ongoing Art Bar, available to anyone who stops in to make works from the ample pile of materials in the lobby, to visitor-made guides of the outside desert garden, to the annual Day of the Dead altar/time capsule, to Visitor Made, an ongoing Third Thursday public art-making experience based on works featured in the current exhibit.

The beauty of the Barrick Museum lies not only in its rotating contemporary art exhibits, but also in its educational, interactive art-making events: the ongoing Art Bar, available to anyone who stops in to make works from the ample pile of materials in the lobby, to visitor-made guides of the outside desert garden, to the annual Day of the Dead altar/time capsule, to Visitor Made, an ongoing Third Thursday public art-making experience based on works featured in the current exhibit.

In the continuing battle over the Latino vote, Donald Trump claimed that he won over Hispanic voters in Nevada in yesterday's caucus. The media noted that Latinos who participated in yesterday's caucus favored Donald Trump over the other candidates with 45 percent of the vote. The next largest share of Latino voters went to Marco Rubio, according to exit polls.

UNLV President Len Jessup has named Diane Chase the university’s executive vice president and provost, effective May 1.

Republican candidate Ted Cruz has fired his campaign communications manager Rick Tyler after he posted a doctored video of rival candidate Marco Rubio.