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Senator Ted Cruz has joked fellow Senator Elizabeth Warren 'might have a penis' because 'in today's Democrat Party, how do we know she doesn't?' Speaking to around 1,500 supporters at the seventh annual Basque Fry in Gardnerville, Nevada, Cruz told supporters: 'We need courage responding to crazy town. 'Elizabeth Warren told reporters that a guy came up to her and said, ''I would have voted for you if only you had a penis''.' Cruz accused Warren of making up the story. He went on: 'In today's Democrat [sic] Party, how do we know she doesn't? How could you possibly know?...

CARSON CITY — Freshman Assemblyman Jim Wheeler’s favorite thing to do at the Legislature: Argue with liberals. From where he hails — the rural ranching town of Gardnerville — there aren’t many of those for the cowboy hat-wearing, retired businessman with a deep, gravely voice to argue with. “It’s so much fun,” the exuberant lawmaker said from his fourth-floor office at the Legislative Building last week. “Where else can you argue with a liberal every day? You argue with one, you can turn around and, look! There’s another!” This session, Wheeler appears to be one of a dwindling breed in...

A Nevada man was arrested on his wedding day, authorities say, after he carried his 56-year-old mother out of the church when she arrived to stop the ceremony. The wedding never happened. Justin Lew Harris, 35, is facing disorderly conduct and coercion charges for the incident, which occurred at Carson Valley United Methodist Church in Gardnerville, Nev., on Monday, Oct. 17. He was released from the Douglas County Jail on his own recognizance two days later. According to the Record-Courier newspaper, Harris's mother said her son had invited her to witness his marriage to his 30-year-old fiance, but carried her...