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Growth rate slowed in US metro areas in 2025, with steepest drops along the southern border

Growth rates in U.S. metro areas dropped the steepest last year in communities along the border with Mexico because of declines in immigrants, while counties along Florida's Gulf Coast lost residents due to a series of hurricanes, according to population estimates released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau.

The estimates showed that a majority of metro areas and counties had slower population gains last year, which the agency attributed primarily to a slowdown in international migration. A year earlier, an influx of immigrants had helped urban areas recover from the COVID-19... Read More

EU lawmakers vote to make it easier to set up migrant detention centers outside the bloc

BRUSSELS (AP) — European lawmakers voted Thursday to ease the setting up of new migrant detention centers outside the European Union, known as “return hubs.”

Members of the European Parliament voted 389-206 in favor, with 32 abstentions. Right-wing parties made an alliance with far-right groups that they had previously shunned to pass the measure, while parties of the left and center voted against.

Any EU nation can now negotiate on its own or in small coalitions to deport migrants not to their home countries but to facilities yet to be built outside the 27-nation... Read More

Transgender women athletes banned from women's Olympic events by new IOC policy

GENEVA (AP) — Transgender women athletes are now excluded from women's events at the Olympics after the IOC agreed to a new eligibility policy on Thursday which aligns with U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive order on sports ahead of the 2028 Los Angeles Games.

“Eligibility for any female category event at the Olympic Games or any other IOC event, including individual and team sports, is now limited to biological females,” the International Olympic Committee said, to be determined by a mandatory gene test once in an athlete's career.

It is unclear how many,... Read More

How the war in Iran is landing with Republicans, according to a new AP-NORC poll

It's costing more and more to gas up the hot rods that Donnie Beson has spent a lifetime tinkering with. He's not questioning his support for President Donald Trump, but he feels as though the war in Iran has distracted the Republican president from the issues that got him elected.

“Come on, Trump. Worry about us," said Beson, 68, of Woodland Park, Colorado. "We’re in a billion-dollar-a-day war. It’s like, ‘Man, you forgot about the other stuff, and you got to take care of that first.’”

Trump still has deep support among Republicans, but a new poll from The... Read More

Stocks fall and oil rises as Wall Street swings back to doubt about a possible end to the Iran war

NEW YORK (AP) — Doubt is taking over again on Wall Street from hope about a possible end to the war with Iran, and stocks are back to sinking as oil prices rise on Thursday.

The S&P 500 fell 0.8% and more than erased its gain from the day before. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 256 points, or 0.6%, as of 9:35 a.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was 1.1% lower.

Stock markets fell even more in much of Asia and Europe. They’re the latest flip - flops in an exhausting week that began with President Donald Trump’s announcement of productive talks... Read More

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Growth rate slowed in US metro areas in 2025, with steepest drops along the southern border

EU lawmakers vote to make it easier to set up migrant detention centers outside the bloc

Transgender women athletes banned from women's Olympic events by new IOC policy

How the war in Iran is landing with Republicans, according to a new AP-NORC poll

Stocks fall and oil rises as Wall Street swings back to doubt about a possible end to the Iran war

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