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1 in 6 newlyweds' spouse is of different race or ethnicity

More and more Americans are marrying people of different races and ethnicities, reaching at least 1 in 6 newlyweds in 2015, ...

Correction: US Births & Deaths story

In a story May 17 about U.S. births and deaths, The Associated Press erroneously reported last year's birth rates. The rates ...

Shopping, Spending, Consumer, Credit

Conquer fear of credit cards now, reap benefits later

Young adults who are afraid of credit cards in the long shadow of the recession usually think only of the risks, rather than ...

Creeping closer: MSNBC has good week competing with Fox

With President Donald Trump's firing of FBI Director James Comey the week's big story, MSNBC had one of its best ratings ...

Number of Hispanic, Asian-American voters increased in 2016

A new Census report shows that the number of Hispanic and Asian-American voters increased in 2016, even as the number of ...

Jeff Sessions

Harsher sentences could result from guidance weighed by US

Justice Department officials have been weighing new guidance that would encourage prosecutors to charge suspects with the ...

Census director abruptly quits people-counting agency

The director of the people-counting Census Bureau is leaving his job just as the agency steps up its once-a-decade tally, the ...

Cuts put spotlight on student race questions on school forms

After volunteering at her children's Los Angeles middle school for nearly a decade, Carol Convey was told the number of ...

Pakistan-Afghan border cross-fire kills 15 on both sides

Backed by artillery, Afghan security forces fired across the border on Pakistani census workers and troops escorting them on ...

Hillary Clinton

Education, late deciders drove problems with 2016's polls

Voters in key swing states who settled on a candidate just before Election Day, along with polls that surveyed too few voters ...

Yesica Sanchez

Prosperous Oregon considers historic renter protection law

Yesica Sanchez recently found a notice attached to the front door of her two-bedroom apartment that said her rent was almost ...

Correction: Africa-Malaria Vaccine story

In a story April 24 about tests in Africa for a malaria vaccine, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the World ...

CENSUS YOUNG ADULTS

Census: Young women in US favor jobs outside the home

The milestones of adulthood for today's millennials: economic security and finishing school — not rushing to get married and ...

1,470 economists send Trump a letter to support immigrants

Almost 1,500 economists have addressed a letter to President Donald Trump and top congressional leaders stressing the ...

Nicholas Bequelin, James Lynch

Executions in China said to outpace world despite decline

China's use of the death penalty remains shrouded in secrecy and still outpaces the rest of the world combined, even after ...

Susanna Martinez

New Mexico to require officers to carry overdose antidote

New Mexico on Thursday became the first U.S. state to require all local and state law enforcement agencies to provide ...

Report: Las Vegas draws more millennial, first-time visitors

The U.S. gambling mecca's efforts to draw millennials and new visitors are paying off. A third of Las Vegas tourists last ...

More births expected for Muslims than Christians worldwide

In recent years, Christians have had more babies than any other religious group worldwide. But by 2035, Muslims are projected ...

Susan Wojcicki

YouTube TV has some nifty features - and some big drawbacks

YouTube TV, Google's new streaming package of about 40 television channels, is the tech industry's latest bid to get ...

Taliban attack kills 6 in Pakistan, including census workers

A Taliban suicide bomber detonated his explosives near a vehicle carrying census workers in eastern Pakistan on Wednesday, ...