South Carolina executed Brad Sigmon by firing squad on March 7, marking its first use of the execution method.

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The Religious Landscape Study disclaims a margin of sampling error of 0.8 percentage points in general and 1.4 percentage points for religiously unaffiliated people. Pew Research Center also stressed ...

United States tariffs on Mexican and Canadian imports took effect on Tuesday. The levies, set at 25 percent by US President ...

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins raised concern over Mexico's proposed constitutional amendment that would ban ...

The population is spread out among 3.8 million square miles across 50 states, yet nearly one-third of Americans live in just three states: California, Texas and New York.

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A second measles-related death was reported out of New Mexico this week. Here's where measles cases have been reported in the U.S. this year.

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Nonetheless, Google announced that it will make the name change to ‘Gulf of America’ for users of Google Maps in the United States once it is officially updated in the US Geographic Names System.