Children’s laughter is becoming less common all across the country — after the number of kids in the US shrank by 1.8 million ...

The South's population grew at nearly twice the national rate over the first five years of the decade, a new report from the ...

More than two-thirds of metro and micropolitan areas saw their median age increase last year, according to new Census data.

Population across the region grew across all age groups between 2020 and 2025. But it was the only region with growing ...

Each year, the Census Bureau publishes population estimates for all municipalities in the U.S. with a population of 20,000 or more. Last week, it released last year’s estimates, reporting population ...

YOU’RE WATCHING KOAT ACTION SEVEN NEWS. ACCORDING TO NEW RESEARCH, OUR STATE’S POPULATION IS DROPPING. WE RANK FOURTH IN THE NATION WHEN IT COMES TO THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WE’RE LOSING. TONIGHT, A ...

A partisan redistricting battle among states has accelerated ahead of the November midterm elections following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that weakened the federal Voting Rights Act and opened the ...

Republican governors in Alabama and Tennessee announced special legislative sessions next week to draw new congressional maps – becoming the latest states to act following the Supreme Court’s further ...

WASHINGTON, April 29 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday gutted a key provision of the Voting Rights Act - making it harder for minorities to challenge electoral maps as racially ...

The justices, split along ideological lines, found that Louisiana’s voting map was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. (Slip Opinion) OCTOBER TERM, 2025 Syllabus NOTE: Where it is feasible, a ...

The Associated Press' Mike Schneider wrote in February 2026, "The U.S. Census Bureau plans to use a survey form with a citizenship question as part of its practice test of the 2030 census, raising ...

Caroline Linton is an associate managing editor on the political team for CBSNews.com. She has previously written for The Daily Beast, Newsweek and amNewYork. Several states undertook mid-decade ...