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January 18, 2021 at 1:12 pm

Census Bureau Director Resigns From Post After Claims That He Politicized Role

Steven Dillingham has resigned as director of the Census Bureau, bringing an early end to a tumultuous tenure that culminated this month in charges that...

December 11, 2020 at 9:56 pm

What happens when a superspreader event keeps spreading

WASHINGTON — When it was disclosed last spring that the coronavirus had stealthily infected 99 people after the Cambridge, Massachusetts, pharmaceutical company Biogen held a...

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September 10, 2020 at 6:16 pm

Federal court rejects Trump’s order to exclude unauthorized immigrants from census

WASHINGTON — A federal court Thursday rejected President Donald Trump’s order to exclude unauthorized immigrants from population counts that will be used next year to...

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August 28, 2020 at 4:24 pm

March on Washington 2020: Protesters hope to rekindle spirit of 1963

WASHINGTON — Hours after President Donald Trump stood on the South Lawn of the White House to rail against what he called agitators bent on...

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August 6, 2020 at 4:11 pm

At the Census Bureau, a technical memo raises alarms over politics

Some experts inside and outside the Census Bureau see the memorandum as the precursor to an effort to manipulate population figures to give Republicans an...

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May 29, 2020 at 4:14 pm

Trump’s ‘looting’ remark dates to racial unrest of the 1960s

WASHINGTON — An incendiary phrase used by President Donald Trump in a tweet about the protests over George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis appears to have...

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FILE – In this Wednesday, April 1, 2020 file photo,People walk past posters encouraging participation in the 2020 Census in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood. A top lawmaker says the Trump administration is seeking to delay deadlines for the 2020 census because of the coronavirus outbreak. U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney said Monday, April 13, 2020 that administration officials also were asking that the timetable for releasing apportionment and redistricting data used to draw congressional and legislative districts be pushed back.(AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File) NYMV202 NYMV202

April 13, 2020 at 9:19 pm

Knocked off track by coronavirus, Census announces delay in 2020 count

The bureau said it would ask that delivery of the final census figures be postponed to April 31, 2021 — 120 days beyond the existing...

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October 24, 2019 at 8:57 am

The Student Vote Is Surging. So Are Efforts to Suppress It.

AUSTIN, Texas — At Austin Community College, civics is an unwritten part of the curriculum — so much so that for years the school has...

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November 17, 2018 at 6:50 pm

Fierce elections emphasize flaws in voting process

Nearly two decades after voting problems in a handful of Florida counties paralyzed the nation, the United States’ election grid this month remained a crazy...

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November 6, 2018 at 9:01 pm

Voting problems surface as Americans go to the polls

From closed polling sites to malfunctioning machines, Election Day brought frustration for some voters in contests shadowed by questions about the security and fairness of...

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