2/12/2021 -
On Jan. 14, 2021, President Joe Biden included a $15 minimum wage in the America Rescue Plan, a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 (coronavirus) rescue package. Biden, however, expressed doubt that the minimum wage increase included would survive a Senate vote.
2/9/2021 -
Governor Kristi Noem has worked to strike down the constitutional amendment, while advocates vow to fight to restore the voter-approved measure.
2/8/2021 -
The Tokyo Games are still scheduled to be played in summer 2021.
2/8/2021 -
US State Department spokesperson, Ned Price, stated, “The United States has always taken the position that the court’s jurisdiction should be reserved for countries that consent to it, or that are referred by the U.N. Security Council.”
2/8/2021 -
Global oil prices are back up to over $60 a barrel, the highest level since Jan. 2020. Oil prices have been rising for months in anticipation of Covid-19 vaccination programs.
2/1/2021 -
The FBI conducted more background checks in 2020 than in any other year since 1998 when the agency began collecting data. The FBI reported 39,695,315 background checks completed in 2020, up from 2019 in which 28,369,750 million checks were performed.
1/30/2021 -
Explore the debate about whether gay marriage should remain legal with an updated site.
1/28/2021 -
The policy restricted all non-governmental organizations funded by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) from performing or promoting abortion services and has been reinstated by all Republican presidents and revoked by all Democratic presidents since Reagan implemented it in 1984.
1/28/2021 -
The policy required the prosecution of all adults crossing the southern border illegally, which resulted in children being held separately from their parents in detention centers.
1/25/2021 -
The House delivered the article of impeachment to the Senate on Monday, Jan. 25, 2021, with an agreed upon trial start the week of Feb. 8, 2021. Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) will preside over the impeachment trial as president pro tempore of the Senate.
1/23/2021 -
In several executive orders issued on inauguration day (Jan. 20, 2021), Biden:
- Paused most deportations for 100 days
- Revoked travel bans from primarily muslim and African Countries
- Ordered census to count all residents, including undocumented immigrants
- Ended declaration of emergency at US southern border and halted border wall construction
- Extended DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) protections
1/23/2021 -
The United States will be back in the agreement in 30 days.
1/23/2021 -
Biden stated the pipeline “disserves the U.S. national interest.”
1/18/2021 -
On Jan. 15, 2021, the NRA filed for bankruptcy, and announced plans to leave New York and move to Texas where the organization will reincorporate. New York Attorney General Letitia James called the move a “tactic to evade accountability and my office’s oversight.” NRA CEO and Executive Vice President Wayne Lapierre stated, “The NRA is pursuing reincorporating in a state that values the contributions of the NRA, celebrates our law-abiding members, and will join us as a partner in upholding constitutional freedom.”
1/18/2021 -
On Jan. 16, 2021, the federal government executed Dustin Higgs, the thirteenth and final prisoner executed under the Trump administration, which carried out the first federal executions since 2003.
