Austin’s reign as the 10th most populous U.S. city is officially over — for now. New estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau now place Austin at No. 11 on the list, edged out by Jacksonville, Florida. Austin’s current population estimate of 979,882 trails Jacksonville’s by less than 6,000 people. Slightly behind Austin in terms of […]
As TikTok fans in the United States worry about losing access to the wildly-popular social media app, there are lessons they can learn from a country on the other side of the world. On Wednesday, the US House of Representatives passed a bill that could lead to a nationwide TikTok ban. While the Chinese-owned app is […]
Kim Ogg, the Democratic district attorney in Harris County, Texas, is raising alarms about voting procedures there after she was turned away from the polls early Tuesday morning because her ballot had already been cast. In a statement posted on X, Harris County Clerk Teneshia Hudspeth said that Ogg’s life partner – with whom the […]
John Hood RALEIGH — In July of last year, the Census Bureau estimated that some 10.8 million people resided in our state. One of the fastest-growing in the country, North Carolina’s population ranks ninth, just below Georgia’s population of 11 million. More generally, Southern states accounted for almost 90 percent of America’s net population increase […]