Although they weren't successful in ultimately including it as part of President Biden's COVID relief package, neither Biden nor congressional Democrats have given up on raising the federal minimum wage. The question is: Raise it just how much?

A senior Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee has gone national with his support for statehood for the District of Columbia.

The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee harshly criticized House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif), for McCarthy's handling of the controversy surrounding freshman Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene.

As Vice President Pence was "doing his job" -- and doing it in a most presidential fashion -- it must be acknowledged that he likely made a choice which carried a personal sacrifice for his ambitions.

Certainly for those people of color--particularly Black people--who saw a very different reception from Capitol Police towards the Trump-backing terrorists storming the halls of Congress compared to racial confrontations in cities like Baltimore, Md., and elsewhere. The difference: both the police and those coming in rioting were all largely white.

The threat of domestic terrorists and insurrectionists loyal to Donald Trump won't disappear when Trump leaves office. Rather, that group is likely to become something that the United States hasn't seen in centuries: a widespread "permanent insurgency," according to the former assistant director for counterintelligence at the FBI.

After four years of neglect and inaction by the Trump administration, President-elect Biden's pledging a new muscular and "unified" national response to meet the challenges of global climate change.

A growing chorus of Americans--across the spectrum and from varying walks of life--are increasingly speaking out to get Donald Trump to accept the results of the presidential election and give up challenges which most say are damaging the nation.

Powerless to stop it, congressional Democrats could only bemoan and criticize the narrow vote by Senate Republicans just a week before Election Day to install Amy Coney Barrett on the Supreme Court.

Trump may really want to hire himself his own legal dream because in addition to obstruction, tax fraud and whatever else prosecutors decide to throw at him, it's not beyond the possible that he may find his name next to a murder charge. And, yes, you read that right.