(NEXSTAR) — Despite attempts in Congress this year, the federal minimum wage will remain unchanged in 2025. In nearly two dozen states, however, that rate is set to climb in 2026. Since 2009, the ...

It’s that time of the year when PBS News Hour invites two of our regular literary critics, Ann Patchett and Maureen Corrigan, to highlight their favorite books of the year. Jeffrey Brown picks up the ...

The new year will see dozens of states, cities and counties raising the minimum wage locally, helping millions of Americans offset an increasingly urgent affordability crisis. On Jan. 1, 2026, the ...

The bow of the future USS District of Columbia (SSBN-826) left Newport News Shipbuilding this week and is en route to General Dynamics Electric Boat, where the submarine will be assembled and tested, ...

It is easy to see why politicians like raising the minimum wage. Short of cash yet keen to fight inequality, they have seized on a tool of redistribution that costs governments little and wins votes.

A coalition of labor and left-leaning activists announced Tuesday in L.A. that they hope to have the county Board of Supervisors take up a proposal to mandate the higher wage soon, phasing the ...

The City Plan Commission last week recommended a proposal that would eliminate parking minimums across a huge swath of Kansas City, letting developers and business owners decide for themselves how ...

An ex-Department of Justice employee was acquitted of assaulting a federal employee after he chucked a Subway sandwich at an agent who testified the hoagie “exploded all over” him, leaving him ...

Departmental budgets for three of Chicago’s oversight agencies are not on their own sufficient to meet mandatory minimums described in law, a BGA Policy analysis of annual appropriations and related ...

Abstract: The space-time-coupled grating lobe clutter (GLC) usually exists and is difficult to handle for subarray-based phased array airborne radar, which would cause serious performance degradation ...

In housing-starved Greater Boston, one of the biggest obstacles to solving the housing crisis is finding the right land to build on. Now, a growing number of cities and towns in the region are ...