Author: Ledyard King, USA TODAY

A bipartisan group of senators said they reached an agreement in principle with the Biden White House on infrastructure funds for U.S. transportation.

Although Manchin said he’d already determined Trump was a divisive force before Jan. 6, the West Virginia senator said the attack still stuns him.

Biden is expected to unveil the initial pieces of his economic agenda next week in Pittsburgh, which includes a $3 trillion infrastructure component.

For more than 171 years, the federal agency responsible for managing the U.S.’s relationship with tribes has never had a Native American at its helm.

Thirty-one states have a minimum wage law below $10. No state has a minimum wage at $15 or above, though the District of Columbia does.

Progressives who have been pushing for the $15 minimum wage viewed the COVID relief bill as their best chance to raise pay for working-class Americans

In her first month in office, Vice President Kamala Harris has broken more Senate ties than Teddy Roosevelt, Harry Truman and Walter Mondale.

The start of Biden’s presidency will be anything but normal with his remarkable inauguration illustrating the difficulty in calming a divided U.S.

“The violence and destruction taking place at the US Capitol Must Stop and it Must Stop Now,” Pence tweeted.