One day after the head of Colorado's Department of Corrections was shot and killed in his home, Governor John Hickenlooper signed landmark new gun laws on Wednesday, expanding background checks on gun purchases and limiting the size of ammunition magazines.
Senator Elizabeth Warren made a case for increasing the minimum wage during last week's Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Hearing. There she cited a study that suggested the federal minimum wage would have stood at nearly $22 an hour today if it kept up with increased rates in worker productivity.
The article series "Being White in Philly" published by Philadelphia's Magazine seeks to discuss race relations in the city of Brotherly Love, from a strictly white perspective.
Amid criticism from campaign finance watchdogs, President Obama spent time at a second "political outreach event" of the day to deliver a speech to about 60 donors and former staffers at an Organizing for Action dinner, elucidating the organization's purpose for his second term.
