Congress caps new H-1B visas at 85,000 per fiscal year, including 20,000 for noncitizens who earned advanced degrees. The government approved 400,000 H-1B applications, including renewals, in 2024, ...

Washington, D.C.’s homicide rate is influenced in part by the city’s limits, said James Alan Fox, Northeastern University criminology professor. The city limits are "almost completely urban" compared ...

President Donald Trump said he is deploying 800 National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., and taking control of the Metropolitan Police Department.

Negative net migration is possible in 2025, but Trump "has no basis to make that claim until the US Census Bureau analyzes the 2025 data next year," Michael Clemens, George Mason University economics ...

After sections of the U.S. Constitution went missing from the Library of Congress’ website, some said the Trump administration erased the provisions entirely. Missing website text cannot alter U.S.

El Parque Nacional de Yellowstone, ubicado principalmente en Wyoming, alberga cientos de especies de aves, peces y mamíferos como bisontes, alces, osos pardos y pumas. Pero estos animales no huyeron, ...

The center estimated that the U.S. is home to 21.6 million noncitizens, about half of whom are here illegally. It said that noncitizens — regardless of immigration status — created a net gain of 14 ...

Yellowstone National Park, mostly located in Wyoming, is home to hundreds of species of birds, fish and mammals such as bison, elks, grizzly bears and mountain lions. But these animals are not on the ...

During a July 2024 Florida campaign rally, Trump promised to "take over the horribly run capital of our nation in Washington, D.C., and clean it up, renovate it, and rebuild our capital city so that ...

Texas Democrats in the state legislature left for Illinois, New York and Massachusetts to deny Republicans a quorum to redistrict congressional maps. Republicans are seeking to redraw boundaries to ...

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The agency’s downward revision of 818,000 jobs was part of a standard, annual data-refinement process. It happened Aug. 21, 2024, spoiling Democrats’ mood one day before then-Vice President Kamala ...