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Party leaders in today’s 50-50 Senate are haggling over a power-sharing agreement, and that’s no surprise. Only twice in American history has the Senate had a dead-even split: in a special session in 1881, and exactly 20 years ago, on the heels of a contentious presidential election decided by the Supreme Court.

In that charged atmosphere, Sens. Trent Lott, Republican from Mississippi,

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As social distancing restrictions are relaxed throughout the U.S., feelings of liberation are conflicting with concerns of a possible second surge in coronavirus cases.

An immensely disrupted economy is an additional factor; over 33 million Americans have filed for unemployment since the pandemic's

When many Americans think about sex trafficking, they often envision brothels in foreign cities or girls being smuggled across far away borders. But what many may not realize is that this isn't just happening a world away, it's happening right in our own backyard. Over 80 percent of sex trafficking victims in America are actually U.S. citizens. And shockingly, the average age of a child when