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China, Trump escalate trade war as stocks slide

China raised tariffs on $60 billion in U.S. imports Monday and President Donald Trump responded with a series of salvos on Twitter that warned China that as Beijing retaliates, the trade war will only get worse.

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Nevada school funding plan finally unveiled

Nevada state Senate Democrats on Monday unveiled a long-awaited proposal to revamp the state’s decades-old school funding formula, presenting a plan that would go into effect in two years.

Cubans plug shrinking ‘bottleneck’ trying to enter US via Mexico

Burgeoning numbers of Cubans are trying to get into the U.S. via the Mexican border, creating a backlog of people on the Mexican side for months for their chance to apply for asylum.