It's been too cold to campaign in frozen North Dakota. But as spring has crept across the state, an unusual ballot initiative is starting to emerge: One that would more than double the minimum wage, from $7.25 to $15 an hour by 2021.
"Freedom," said Bob Goodlatte, the House Judiciary Committee chairman, quoting President Ronald Reagan as he began a hearing Thursday morning, "is never more than one generation away from extinction."
The Justice Department's antitrust chief Makan Delrahim said on Thursday his "line is always open" if AT&T decides it wants to settle the case the government has brought to stop the telecom giant's acquisition of Time Warner.
They say everything is bigger in Texas. So it's fitting that the NFL Draft, which has ballooned in recent years from an off-season process into a bona fide, fan-focused event, kicks off in Dallas on Thursday.
