Immigration in 2024 drove U.S. population growth to its fastest rate in 23 years as the nation surpassed 340 million residents, the U.S. Census Bureau said Thursday. The almost 1% growth rate this year was the highest it has been since 2001, and it was a marked contrast to the record low of ...
NEW YORK (AP) — New York prosecutors are using a 9/11-era anti-terrorism law in their case against the man charged with gunning down UnitedHealthcare's CEO outside a midtown Manhattan hotel. Luigi Mangione was indicted on charges of murder as an act of terrorism, under a state law that ...
Children of the wealthy and connected get special admissions consideration at some elite U.S. universities, according to new filings in a class-action lawsuit originally brought against 17 schools. Georgetown's then-president, for example, listed a prospective student on his "president's list" ...
By SOPHIA TAREEN and RICK CALLAHAN Associated Press MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. (AP) — An Indiana man convicted of killing four people including his brother and his sister's fiancé decades ago was put to death early Wednesday, marking the state's first execution in 15 years. Joseph Corcoran, ...
By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press TOMS RIVER, N.J. (AP) — Years of toxic waste dumping in a Jersey Shore community where childhood cancer rates rose caused at least $1 billion in damage to natural resources, according to an environmental group trying to overturn a settlement between New ...
By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve officials on Wednesday will likely signal a slower pace of interest rate cuts next year compared with the past few months, which would mean that Americans might enjoy only slight relief from still-high borrowing ...
