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Twenty states have minimum wages no higher than the $7.25 federal level: Alabama, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, ...

A group of North Carolinians, along with a coalition of nonpartisan voting and civil rights organizations, are seeking to intervene in a federal lawsuit that wrongly challenges the eligibility of more ...

A new MoveOn Civic Action petition is calling on the Department of Justice and the Trump administration to release all files related to the Jeffrey Epstein case. The petition argues that full ...

The orders Trump signed Thursday evening are unprecedented and let facilities put off using better technology or even turn ...

Demand Progress launched a campaign supporting an effort by Reps. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Ro Khanna (D-CA) to force the release of all files related to Jeffrey Epstein. If Massie and Khanna’s ...

On Friday, a Trump-appointed U.S. District Judge of the Eastern District Court in Texas vacated a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) medical debt rule that would have removed medical debt ...

Today, the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC)announced four newly constituted Task Forces aimed at helping Democrats reclaim the House majority in 2026—with a sharp, populist, pro-working-class ...

Reporter’s arrest—on charges that have since been dropped—poses grave threat to press freedom and the public’s right to know ...

A dozen immigrants and their legal advocates launched a class action lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's campaign of courthouse arrests "designed to strip noncitizens of their rights" and ...

Today, the Senate Judiciary Committee attempted to vote through another slate of President Donald Trump’s extreme judicial nominees, including his former defense attorney Emil Bove, apparently in ...