US birthrate dips to record low in line with global trend About 3.6 million babies were born in the US in 2023, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said, equating to a fertility rate of about 1.6 kids per woman, the lowest in more than a century. 04/25/2024 - 10:55 am | View Link
Dow Dips Over 500 Points; US GDP Growth Misses Expectations U.S. stocks traded lower this morning, with the Dow Jones index tumbling by more than 500 points on Thursday. Following the market opening Thursday, the Dow traded down 1.42% to 37,915.92 while the ... 04/25/2024 - 2:47 am | View Link
Middle class wiped out: Half of Myanmar’s people forced into poverty by civil war, UN report finds The researchers paint an alarming picture where an additional 25% of people in Myanmar were “hanging by a thread” just above the poverty line in October 2023. “The situation is likely to have ... 04/11/2024 - 7:27 pm | View Link
Census: Arab Americans now a majority in Dearborn as Middle Eastern Michiganders top 300K Arab Americans, for the first time, now make up a majority of the residents of Dearborn ... the highest percentage of any county in the U.S., said the U.S. Census Bureau in a report released along ... 04/2/2024 - 12:59 pm | View Link
2023 Poverty Rate By State, Per The Latest Census Data poverty rate. But it did experience a shocking increase ... the early 2010s were a time of terribly slow recovery. Thus, poverty rates in 2012 tend to be higher than today. However, that is ... 11/9/2023 - 1:38 am | View Link
Although Donald Trump complains that his criminal trial keeps him off the campaign trail, he spent Wednesday — the day when court isn’t scheduled — playing golf and not campaigning, CNN reports.
Critics say the justice should not judge Trump's election-subversion case, because his wife supported overturning the election, attended Trump's Jan6 rally.
“The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday voted to restore ‘net neutrality’ rules that prevent broadband internet providers such as Comcast and Verizon from favoring some sites and apps over others,” the AP reports.
“The move effectively reinstates a net neutrality order the commission first issued in 2015 during the Obama administration.
“Lawmakers in Alabama passed legislation that could lead to the prosecution of librarians under the state’s obscenity law for providing minors with ‘harmful’ materials,” The Hill reports.