An earlier Stateline story reported that policy, poverty, rural isolation and bad habits are shortening lives in West Virginia compared with New York. Even though the states had very similar life ...

Census Bureau Director Robert Santos is resigning, giving President Trump an early opportunity to nominate an appointee to ...

President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed executive orders to promote parental choice in school selection and end federal ...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday will sign an executive order to promote school choice that would also end "funding ...

In The Unseen Truth, Sarah Lewis examines how an erroneous 18th-century story about the “Caucasian race” led to a centuries ...

Key statistics and data about the demographic, geographic and economic characteristics of the U.S. Black population.

Assad’s final ouster appeared abrupt, it had its roots in Syria’s 2011 antigovernment protests, and Syrians will now face ...

President Donald Trump started his second administration with a blitz of policy actions to reorient the U.S. government.

Some of Trump's executive orders have an immediate policy impact. Others are more symbolic. Some already are being challenged ...

The number of Black people living in the United States reached a new high of 48.3 million in 2023. That’s up a third (33%) ...

After a two-year relationship came to an end, "Glamour" editor Ruhama Wolle jumped back into the dating pool—only to find it was a puddle.

Designate an “invasion across the southern border of the United States ... on racial and ethnic equity and LGBTQ rights. They ...