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The president finds the long-settled meaning of the citizenship clause to be an intolerable obstacle to his agenda. The reason? Each year it would make U.S. citizens of tens of thousands of people who ...

The term ‘official statistics’ is not usually a headline-grabber. But, around a year ago, when Nature’s news team began exploring reports of problems with the data that governments routinely collect, ...

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National statistical systems generate the statistics that underpin policy, economic analysis, and public trust. Yet, despite decades of investment in statistical capacity, two persistent challenges, ...

The U.S. shed 92,000 jobs in February and previous months of job growth were not as strong as previously reported, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced Friday in a report that will raise alarms ...

University of the Free State provides funding as a partner of The Conversation AFRICA. It’s getting tougher to assess how much university students have learnt. In his work as a Mathematical Statistics ...

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The 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics are about to start, but how have countries statistically fared in previous Winter Games? NBC News' Steve Kornacki breaks down the history of which countries have won ...

Donald Trump just wrapped up the first year of his second term as president. Business Insider examined how the economy has changed in that year. The job market slowed down a lot, consumers kept ...

Each holiday season, as peppermint mochas return to coffee shop menus and mall Santas take their posts, a familiar kind of religious freedom conflict appears in the news: disputes over nativity scenes ...

Recent shifts in immigration flows have lowered the estimates of net international migration into the United States. New data indicate that net migration will be close to half a million people in 2025 ...