0:11News StoryAdvocates for raising the minimum wage rallied at the Capitol on the eve of the 2020 General Assembly. (Ned Oliver/Virginia Mercury)WASHINGTON— The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office in a  Monday found a gradual increase to a $15 federal minimum wage by 2025 would reduce poverty, add $54 billion to the deficit over a decade and increase pay for millions of low-income workers.The report could help Democrats make a strong case for including a gradual federal minimum wage increase in the $1.9 trillion relief package The reconciliation process allows legislation to...…0:11News StoryAdvocates for raising the minimum wage rallied at the Capitol on the eve of the 2020 General Assembly. (Ned Oliver/Virginia Mercury)WASHINGTON— The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office in a  Monday found a gradual increase to a $15 federal minimum wage by 2025 would reduce poverty, add $54 billion to the deficit over a decade and increase pay for millions of low-income workers.The report could help Democrats make a strong case for including a gradual federal minimum wage increase in the $1.9 trillion relief package The reconciliation process allows legislation to...WW…

    WASHINGTON — President-elect Joe Biden is promising to reinstate an Obama-era program that shields deportation for some undocumented people who were brought to the United States by their parents when they were children.But immigration advocates are pushing for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program to not just be reaffirmed but expanded, and written into law. They view that as a minimum goal in immigration policy, with deportation protection for DACA recipients’ family members extended as well.“During the Trump administration we’ve seen how fragile the...…    WASHINGTON — President-elect Joe Biden is promising to reinstate an Obama-era program that shields deportation for some undocumented people who were brought to the United States by their parents when they were children.But immigration advocates are pushing for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program to not just be reaffirmed but expanded, and written into law. They view that as a minimum goal in immigration policy, with deportation protection for DACA recipients’ family members extended as well.“During the Trump administration we’ve seen how fragile the...WW…

    U.S. Rep. Denver Riggleman, a Republican who was running for a second term in Virginia’s 5th congressional district until he was ousted in a convention this past summer, says he’s considering a run for governor.But he’s not sure, as he sounds the alarm on the spread of the unfounded QAnon conspiracy theory, whether he still wants to be part of the GOP.Riggleman, who  after he officiated a gay marriage, is mulling not just whether he would run but if it would be as a Republican or an independent. In an interview with the Virginia Mercury, he voiced his...…    U.S. Rep. Denver Riggleman, a Republican who was running for a second term in Virginia’s 5th congressional district until he was ousted in a convention this past summer, says he’s considering a run for governor.But he’s not sure, as he sounds the alarm on the spread of the unfounded QAnon conspiracy theory, whether he still wants to be part of the GOP.Riggleman, who  after he officiated a gay marriage, is mulling not just whether he would run but if it would be as a Republican or an independent. In an interview with the Virginia Mercury, he voiced his...WW…

Washington — More than 100 U.S. House Republicans on Thursday backed a long-shot Texas lawsuit that seeks to delay the certification of presidential election results for Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin, battleground states that President-elect Joe Biden won.In  to join  filed in the U.S. Supreme Court, Louisiana Rep. Mike Johnson led 105 of his Republican colleagues in supporting the efforts of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.The group makes up more than half of the 196 GOP members of the House. From Ohio, Republican U.S. Reps. Bob Gibbs, Jim Jordan, Bill...…Washington — More than 100 U.S. House Republicans on Thursday backed a long-shot Texas lawsuit that seeks to delay the certification of presidential election results for Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin, battleground states that President-elect Joe Biden won.In  to join  filed in the U.S. Supreme Court, Louisiana Rep. Mike Johnson led 105 of his Republican colleagues in supporting the efforts of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.The group makes up more than half of the 196 GOP members of the House. From Ohio, Republican U.S. Reps. Bob Gibbs, Jim Jordan, Bill...WW…