Increasing the minimum wage to $15 an hour would reduce the number of Americans living in poverty and boost wages for millions of Americans while adding to the federal debt and joblessness, a new report from the Congressional Budget Office projects.
Former President Trump's second impeachment trial begins this week. And more on the latest stimulus plan.
The Senate early Friday approved a measure that would let Democrats muscle President Joe Bidenβs $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief plan through the chamber without Republican support. Vice President Kamala Harris was in the chair to cast the tie-breaking vote, her first.
A fiercely divided House tossed Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene off both her committees Thursday, an unprecedented punishment that Democrats said sheβd earned by spreading hateful and violent conspiracy theories.
Governor Roy Cooper shared a plan on Thursday for allocating federal COVID-19 relief funds and investing state resources for immediate needs in North Carolina, including giving one-time bonuses to educators.
House Democrats on Thursday asked former President Donald Trump to testify under oath for his Senate impeachment trial.
Efforts continue on another COVID-19 stimulus for millions of struggling Americans. President Biden already meeting with both democrats and republicans this week to talk about his $1.9 trillion plan.
Mecklenburg County leaders are encouraging local cities to pass protections for the LGBTQ community. Commissioners unanimously passed a resolution in support of new non-discriminations ordinances.
Donald Trump endangered the lives of all members of Congress when he aimed a mob of supporters βlike a loaded cannonβ at the U.S. Capitol, House Democrats said Tuesday in making their most detailed case yet for why the former president should be convicted and permanently barred from office. Trump denied the allegations through his lawyers and called the trial unconstitutional.
Tuesday night, Mecklenburg County Commissioners will weigh-in on a push for protections for the LGBTQ community. It comes after the end of a nearly four year ban on new local non-discrimination ordinances.
First Lady Michelle Obama and Vice President Kamala Harris turned heads at the 2021 presidential inauguration with their all monochromatic looks designed by South Carolina native Sergio Hudson who praises the Auntie Karen Foundation for his success in the fashion industry.
Five of former President Trump's impeachment defense attorneys are off the case, a little more than a week before the Senate Trial begins. Meantime, a group of Republicans has put forward a counter-proposal on a COVID-19 relief plan.
President Joe Biden says he wants most schools serving kindergarten through eighth grade to reopen by late April, but even if that happens, it is likely to leave out millions of students, many of them minorities in urban areas.
The Democratic push to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour has emerged as an early flashpoint in the fight for a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package, testing President Joe Bidenβs ability to bridge Washingtonβs partisan divides as he pursues his first major legislative victory.
Republican lawmakers are balking at the cost of President Joe Bidenβs $1.9 trillion COVID-19 rescue plan β but the Biden team is trying to convince the country that the cost is a bargain compared to the potential damage to the worldβs largest economy.
President Joe Biden on Thursday ordered government health insurance markets to reopen for a special sign-up window, offering uninsured Americans a haven as the spread of COVID-19 remains dangerously high and vaccines arenβt yet widely available.
The South Carolina Senate on Thursday passed a bill that would outlaw almost all abortions in the state, overcoming years of hurdles thanks to Republican winning new seats in last yearβs elections.
Governor Roy Cooper says the North Carolina Modified Stay-At-Home Order will be extended until at least Sunday, February 28th, requiring people to stay home from 10 p.m. until 5 a.m.
Opponents of abortion joined with some of South Carolinaβs most powerful Republican politicians to mark what they think may be the end of a long fight to pass a bill that would ban almost all abortions in the state.
Two small political parties in North Carolina are no longer officially recognized because they failed to meet candidate support thresholds in November, the State Board of Elections announced on Wednesday.
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