World Population Prospects 2024: Summary of Results adopts the analytical framework of the demographic transition—the historic shift towards longer lives and smaller families—approximated here by the ...

Violent crime decreased by 4.5% in 2024, marking the second consecutive year of decline. Property crime saw a larger decrease, falling by 8.1% in the same period. Hate crimes also decreased by 1.5% ...

For the most part, voting patterns across demographic groups in the 2024 presidential election were not substantially different from the 2020 and 2016 elections. But Donald Trump’s gains among several ...

A so-called "city killer" asteroid scientists have been monitoring after discovering it had a small chance of hitting Earth in 2032 "no longer poses a significant threat," NASA said in its latest ...

Berlin, 11 February 2025 - Global corruption levels remain alarmingly high, with efforts to reduce them faltering, according to the 2024 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), released today by ...

Is it my imagination, or are there fewer “year in review” photo essays this year? In years past, newspaper editors loved these features because you could prepare them in advance and then run them in ...

There was once a time when the mere mention of the Toyota Prius elicited laughter and prompted remarks like "A Prius? Seriously?" from people who didn't know any better. Not any longer. The ...

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See our favorite books of the year, from celebrity memoirs to buzzy literary fiction As the end of the year approaches, we're looking back at our reading lists for the standouts from 2024. Below, ...

Through his new Department of Government Efficiency, President-elect Donald Trump has introduced a much-needed directive to improve the federal government’s functionality. As the longest-tenured ...

Hi again! It’s Grace, your favorite American in Oxford. Today, I’m going to talk about what many consider to be the main attraction of Oxford: the famous tutorial system. Essentially, instead of ...