Southern accents are disappearing in some parts of the U.S. South due to the migration of people into the region from other parts of the United States and around the world.

Cruella de Vil wanted to turn Dalmatian puppies into fur coats.

From Harry Potter to Super Mario Bros.

Animal lovers now have a place to hang out with the “it” animals of the moment.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis says his office has tools including suspending officials from office to compel local governments to cooperate with federal immigration authorities in assisting in detentions and deportations.

Florida’s citrus growers are struggling to survive the one-two punch of hurricanes and disease.

The largest urban counties in the U.S. kept growing last year because of immigrants.

The U.S. Census Bureau under the Trump administration has sought permission to delete questions about gender identity from a monthly survey.

Republicans are trying to exclude people who are in the U.S. illegally from the numbers used to portion out congressional seats among the states.

The director of the U.S. Census Bureau has decided to resign.

Voters in California and Texas affiliated with a Democratic group want to intervene in a lawsuit filed by four Republican state attorneys general.

A former head of the Orlando Museum of Art who left the museum in 2022 after it was raided by the FBI as part of a probe into several forged Jean-Michel Basquiat paintings has died.

Republican efforts to exclude people in the U.S. illegally from numbers used to divvy up congressional seats among states have begun anew, with four Republican state attorneys general suing to alter the once-a-decade head count even before President Donald Trump’s second term in office began.

The Congressional Budget Office has shrunk its projections for the U.S. population in 30 years to 372 million residents.

When 2020 census results were released more than three years ago, they showed a 276% boom in the number of people classified as multiracial in the United States since 2010.

The world population increased by more than 71 million people in 2024 and will be 8.09 billion people on New Year’s Day.

A man accused of attempting to assassinate President-elect Donald Trump in South Florida won’t be tried until September 2025.

The U.S. Census Bureau currently is getting public feedback about how it should tally responses from people into new race and ethnicity groups.

Immigration in 2024 drove U.S. population growth to its fastest rate in 23 years as the nation surpassed 340 million residents.

Fewer grandparents were taking care of grandchildren, there was a decline in the number of preschoolers and more people were staying put in their homes in the first part of the 2020s compared with the last part of the 2010s.