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LOS ANGELES (AP) — California has enacted the nation's highest statewide minimum wage of $15 an hour to take effect by 2022. Gov. Jerry Brown's signing of the bill today in Los Angeles, and a similar New York effort, mark the most ambitious moves yet to close the national divide between rich and poor. Business groups fear the increase will cost thousands of jobs. Democratic lawmakers approved the measure last week with no Republican support.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — As Ted Cruz sees it, any talk of someone other than him or Donald Trump winning the Republican nomination at a contested convention is "nothing less than a pipe dream." That was his answer to a question today about someone getting the nomination who didn't run this year, such as 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney — or Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who's still in the race despite overwhelming odds. Cruz says if that were to happen, "the people would rightly revolt." He's campaigning in Wisconsin ahead of tomorrow's primary.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says NATO continues to be the cornerstone of collective defense for the U.S. and Europe. Obama welcomed NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg (yehnz STOHL'-tehn-burg) to the White House today for an Oval Office meeting. He says they discussed the fight against the Islamic State group as well as potential operations in Libya. Their meeting came as Donald Trump has been questioning NATO's relevance. Stoltenberg says NATO remains "as important as ever."
HIT, Iraq (AP) — Iraqi forces say they have entered the town of Hit, a week after launching an operation to retake the town from Islamic State group fighters. Commanders on the scene from Iraq's elite counterterrorism forces, who are leading the offensive, say they are clearing the militant group's fighters from Hit's northern neighborhoods as they push toward the town center. Hit lies along an IS supply line that links the extremist militants in Iraq to those in Syria.
REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) — Iceland's prime minister is insisting he won't resign -- even though he's been linked to an offshore company that would represent a serious conflict of interest. News reports based on leaked documents have alleged that the Icelandic leader (Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson) and his wife set up a company in the British Virgin Islands with the help of a Panamanian law firm that's the focus of the leaked documents.
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