President Obama wants to close the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay. If the prison closes, some have warned, the president would hand the base itself over to Cuba.
In Alabama, the city of Birmingham voted to increase its minimum wage to $10.10. Lawmakers in the state legislature said "not so fast." Now there's a battle underway as the Republican-controlled legislature tries to stop the state's largest city from increasing its hourly wages.
NPR's Robert Siegel talks with Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson about the state of GOP politics in his state as they head into the primaries on Super Tuesday.
Republican caucus goers in Nevada overwhelming voted for Donald Trump Tuesday night to be the party's presidential nominee. It's Trump's third major victory in two weeks.
Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner challenged Democratic state lawmakers last week to either agree on parts of his so-called turnaround agenda or give him the ability to slash spending deeply in his budget address. But it appears to not have moved anyone off their hard line positions. Illinois is now approaching eight months without a budget. State colleges say they can't budget plan, and some students say they can't afford to continue classes. Lawmakers passed funding grants for low-income students, but Rauner vetoed the bill.
At one caucus, "just four people took the stage, including former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, who drew a chorus of boos when he announced his support for Ted Cruz," a newspaper reports.
Bernie Sanders says he wants to break up too-big-to-fail banks. But Hillary Clinton says the real risks to the financial system lie in lightly regulated corners of the economy known as shadow banks.
