The Census Bureau’s first snapshot of population data for 2025 confirms some big trends, like a major shift in immigration as the U.S. cracks down on border crossings and steps up deportations. (Camp, Rust & McGill, The Wall Street Journal)
Read MoreMullally, 63, became the archbishop of Canterbury, making her the first woman to lead the Church of England. The worldwide Anglican Communion, which includes the Episcopal Church in the U.S., has no formal head, but the archbishop traditionally has been seen as its spiritual leader. (Kirka, AP News)
Read MoreThe new high surpasses the last peak in life expectancy in 2019, and it's the highest since the government started tracking this key measure of the nation's health and well-being in 1900. (Stein, NPR)
Read MoreWhile Germany’s national exhibition centre was being built in the Eighties, the conservative chancellor Helmut Kohl was promising to lead a revival of traditional “bourgeois virtues” and selling sex was still legally classified as an activity that “violates good public morals”. (Moody, The Times)
Read MoreMarcello Hernández, the cast member perhaps most likely to become SNL’s next breakout star, dropped by the “Weekend Update” desk to inform the Millennial co-anchor Colin Jost—and, by proxy, many Millennial audience members—of the slang terms favored by Gen Z. (Tedder, The Atlantic)
Read MoreSince 1947, the Doomsday Clock has metaphorically represented the risk that we will succumb to human-made threats, with midnight representing Armageddon. Now, we are closer to that than at any time in the last 80 years. (Carpineti, IFLScience)
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