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Anyone who has suspected that there are more women than men where they live, or vice versa, will find fodder for their suspicions in new data from the U.S. Census Bureau.

Top Biden administration officials labored Wednesday to try to reach a last-minute deal for wartime aid for Ukraine by agreeing to Senate Republican demands to bolster U.S.-Mexico border policies, with urgency setting in as Congress prepared to depart Washington with the impasse unresolved.

Use of Plan B "morning after" pills more than doubled after women started buying them over the counter, and teen sex rates declined before the pandemic, a federal survey shows.

Congress decamped from Washington on Thursday without reaching an agreement on border security, signaling President Biden's broader $106 billion national security spending bill will have to wait until the new year.

Dean Preston, a San Fran supervisor, said the scores of homeless camped in the streets are victims of capitalism and that it is futile to arrest drug addicts. Then he called on those who wanted to clean up the streets to simply shut their eyes, like he does, and voila, they're gone! Not really. But it was implied.

British lawmakers have voted Tuesday to support the government's plan to send some asylum-seekers on a one-way trip to Rwanda, keeping alive a policy that has angered human rights groups and cost the U.K. at least $300 million, without a single flight getting off the ground.

The American economy is a mess. Is there any one specific thing you believe our national leaders should do that would rescue America from the economic trainwreck that seems inevitable?

Women increasingly are asking judges -- not their doctors -- for abortions in red states that have largely banned the procedure, creating a phenomenon not seen even before Roe v. Wade established a national right to abortion in 1973.

Immigrant rights groups are alerting President Biden of political consequences if he strikes a deal with Republicans to try to fix the chaos at the southern border, saying Latino voters won't forgive him when he needs their votes next year.

More teenagers than ever spend most of their free time in the online worlds of TikTok and Instagram than in the real world with family and friends, according to recent research.