Fertility Rate Fell to a Record Low, for a Second Straight Year
The country has been living through one of the longest declines in fertility in decades and demographers are trying to figure out what is driving it.
Fact Check of the Day: Trump Falsely Claims a 40% Decrease in Illegal Border Crossings
Such crossings actually increased in April, compared with March and the previous three Aprils.
North Korean Threats Are ‘Splash of Cold Water’ on Expectations for Talks
Officials said they believed the meeting between President Trump and Kim Jong-un would still happen, but the threats brought a diplomatic high-wire act temporarily back to earth.
Top Republican Senator Says There’s ‘No Doubt’ Russia Favored Trump
Senator Richard M. Burr of North Carolina, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said he saw “no reason to dispute” the findings of the United States’ spy agencies.
Mueller Won’t Indict Trump if He Finds Wrongdoing, Giuliani Says
The special counsel’s office has told the president’s lawyers that prosecutors will follow existing guidelines that say that sitting presidents cannot be indicted.
Prospective Democratic Presidential Candidates Put Their Ideas on Audition
At a Center for American Progress conference, Democrats who are potentially eyeing 2020 focused less on opposing President Trump and more on affirmative policy goals.
Trump Calls Some Unauthorized Immigrants ‘Animals’ in Rant
The president unspooled a lengthy diatribe before TV cameras, warning that dangerous people were clamoring to breach the United States’ borders and castigating Mexico.
In Rebuke of Trump, Tillerson Says Lies Are a Threat to Democracy
The ex-secretary of state, who didn’t mention the president by name in a commencement speech at the Virginia Military Institute, said efforts to hide the truth amounted to going “wobbly on America.”
Why the Teacher Walkout Movement Won’t Reach Every State
State control of education helps explain why walkouts have happened in North Carolina and five other states, but not in others.
Tech Fix: Google’s File on Me Was Huge. Here’s Why It Wasn’t as Creepy as My Facebook Data.
Google collects far more information about us than Facebook. But the Google data that our tech columnist downloaded on himself contained fewer surprises and was more easily deleted.
Leah Napolin, Whose ‘Yentl’ Adaptation Made Broadway, Dies at 83
The play, based on an Isaac Bashevis Singer story, was a tale of empowerment in the midst of feminism’s second wave.
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