Ohio: The Buckeye state gave us Katie Holmes, Halle Berry, and LeBron James. And the Midwestern state is also home to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Wright Brothers, the Ohio State Buckeyes and eight presidents.
In a letter sent to the East St. Louis school board in April, the Illinois superintendent of education said the board was engaged in acts of corruption.
Mitt Romney campaign said it raised more than $100 million in June, surpassing the more than $77 million it raised the previous months.
As if the conditions in Haiti aren't bad enough, women and girls are being raped and assaulted in high numbers.
U.S. Coast Guard officers continued to search for survivors Tuesday after a boat carrying 28 Haitian migrants ran into trouble in the Bahamas while on its way to the United States, leading to at least 11 deaths.
Because of their growing numbers and presence in some of the key battleground states, Latinos are expected to play a prominent role in this year's battle for the White House between President Barack Obama and presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney.
Americans needing health insurance or disability services could be overlooked by their local governments if a bill now being considered by the Senate passes. It would eliminate a survey that some call a vital source of information about health indicators of millions of Americans, but which House Republicans say is too expensive and raises privacy concerns.
Same-sex marriage was thrust into the political spotlight earlier this week after North Carolina voters approved a constitutional amendment that bans same-sex marriage in the state, and President Barack Obama, who will accept the Democratic Party's nomination in North Carolina later this year, announced Wednesday that he personally supports same-sex marriage. Obama's announcement brought cheers from gay rights activists and Democratic allies and jeers from religious conservatives and some quarters of the GOP.
CNN's Randi Kaye reports on how far the U.S. has come on same-sex marriage.
In the land of liberty and opportunity, startups continue to make up a smaller share of the American business landscape.
The number of interracial couples in the United States has reached an all-time high, with one in every 10 American opposite-sex married couples saying they're of mixed races, according to the most recent Census data released Wednesday.
U.S. stocks finished mixed Tuesday, with the Dow holding onto solid gains, while Netflix's disappointing outlook weighed down tech stocks.
Finding a long-lost uncle's name on a census form or discovering that Grandpa identified himself as a mural painter: It's the stuff genealogists and history hunters live for.
A reporter last week asked me if many people cared about the release of individual records from the 1940 Census. "Are they just a historic relic?" was the followup from someone else unimpressed that the general public would finally have access to more than 100 million census records locked away for 72 years.
Segregation of African-Americans in cities and towns across the United States has dropped to its lowest level in more than a century, according to a recent study.
The U.S. population is expected to top out at close to 312.8 million people just around the time crowds gather to watch the ball drop on New Year's Eve, according to new census data released Thursday.
In a scathing report, the U.S. Department of Justice on Monday accused the East Haven Police Department (EHPD) in Connecticut of engaging in a pattern of widespread discrimination against Latinos in violation of the Constitution and federal law.
If you thought the U.S. housing market couldn't get much worse, think again.
The Census Bureau released data Wednesday that shows there are more people 65 and older than ever before in the United States.
Jonathan Hanson and Katina Wright are determined to give their infant daughter a bright and stable future despite the cloud of uncertainty they face after years without steady work.
George Howell reports on how an Atlanta couple is coping 22 months after their last paycheck.
CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin explains how the Supreme Court views voting districts based on race.
Outside Independence Hall, ask a graduate student in line to see the Liberty Bell what he thinks of gerrymandering, and you might get this answer:
Students will investigate the contributions of Hispanic Americans to U.S. culture, and what it means to be an Hispanic in America today.
Take an Independence Day tour through Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica.
CNN's Kate Lunger gives insight into the Las Vegas Western Republican debate airing Tuesday night at 8 ET.
Mirna Castaneda pays close attention to the instructor showing her the best way to make a bed.
It's official. The first decade of the 21st century will go down in the history books as a step back for the American middle class.
For the first time in U.S. history, the largest single group of poor children in any racial or ethnic category is Hispanic, according to a new survey.
New census figures released Thursday for America's white and black populations depicted a nation where most people are white, with increasing numbers of mixed-race inhabitants.
Counting the number of American households with same-sex couples proved difficult, the U.S. Census Bureau said Tuesday in presenting revised estimates for its 2010 figures.
Actor Edward James Olmos wishes he could trace his family's Mexican history back 100,000 years, but he'll have to settle for 1930 for now.
In the middle of the massive effort to protect New Yorkers from the effects of Hurricane Irene last month, a colorful moment gave people an amusing opportunity to laugh and joke. It was New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's efforts to communicate with Spanish-speaking New Yorkers in their own language.
Students will investigate the contributions of Hispanic Americans to U.S. culture, and what it means to be an Hispanic in America today.
A Florida lawmaker is pushing to repeal a state law that makes it illegal to cohabitate with someone who is not their spouse, and makes it a crime punishable by a $500 fine and up to 60 days in jail.
HLN talks to a state lawmaker who wants to undo a Florida law which bars unwed couples from living together.
The drag queen pointed at two men in the front row.
Researchers from Alfred Kinsey to local nonprofits have tried for decades to count the United States' gay, lesbian and bisexual population, and still, there were no hard numbers.
The South has the highest rate of divorce and the Northeast has the lowest, according to a new U.S. Census Bureau report.
Lee County, Texas closely mirrors the racial and ethnic makeup of the United States. Here's the county "by the numbers."
At 5 a.m. in this tiny town an hour's drive east of Austin, Texas, Gerald Birkelbach is already at work, lugging hickory wood from an old pickup truck into his nearly 70-year-old barbecue joint.
The United States is walking a path to greater diversity. And younger people are leading the way.
Stephanie Marshall and her fiance, Kelton Scott, are college-educated, gainfully employed and living together. They pay their bills separately but "get together on common things like the rent," said Marshall, who just finished medical school in Atlanta.
Census tract 203.17 has grown by a staggering 970% since 2000. Here are two residents' stories.
At every corner and every stoplight in this town some 15 miles southeast of Charlotte, the signs staked in the ground have one message: "Homes ready now."
Married couples have dropped below half of all U.S households, marking a historic shift in what constitutes the traditional American family, according to census data released Thursday.
Elvira Sosa left Mexico for the United States more than 30 years ago, but last year was the first time she'd been counted as part of the U.S. Census.
"Stop the Train" was, literally, a rallying cry for post-Tea Party Republicans this past November.
When President Obama sat down at the White House with a Texas television station Monday, one of the four interviews he did with local TV reporters, he may have also raised speculation that Democrats think solidly red Texas might be in play in 2012.
A police department accused of racially profiling Latinos has reached a settlement with the Iowa Civil Rights Commission. In exchange for agreeing to several policy changes, the identity of the police force is not being made public.
The census is inherently political, even if most people don't see it that way.
Marcelino Garcia's three-decade journey from illegal immigrant to successful businessman has unfolded against an unlikely backdrop -- the deeply conservative state of Oklahoma.
New census figures show Hispanics have surpassed American Indians as the largest minority group in Oklahoma.
The growing Hispanic population in the United States has reached a new milestone, topping 50 million, or 16.3% of the nation, officially solidifying its position as the country's second-largest group, U.S. Census Bureau officials said Thursday.
Census results show Detroit has lost a large amount of its population in the last decade. WDIV has more.
Detroit could probably use another Eminem boost following Tuesday's news that it lost 25% of its residents from 2000 to 2010.
The United States is becoming an Hispanic country. And it's happening much faster than anyone expected.
The growth of the Hispanic population in the United States is outstripping pre-census estimates, the Pew Hispanic Center report released Tuesday says.
Marriage and parenthood aren't necessarily a package deal for for Americans under the age of 30, a new survey finds. Instead, young adults say they put a higher value on raising children than getting married.
Conventional wisdom states that college-educated workers earn higher salaries because their jobs require more education and advanced skills.
How's the broadband access in your community -- or perhaps in other places where you'd like to live, work or send your kids to school?
Black-owned firms grew faster -- both in number and sales -- than U.S. firms did as a whole over a five-year period, according to the latest data available from the Census Bureau.
Once upon a time, the U.S. Census Bureau was a thriving hub of technological innovation.
Morris Panner is the CEO of group text messaging service GroupFlier.
Throughout most of her 86 years, Florence Hand had been haunted by "floating dreams" that always revealed "somebody in the room besides me," she said.
Nearly six years ago, I left Texas to move back home to California.
The numbers for the 2010 census are out, and the news appears good for Republican-leaning states when it comes to adding new seats in the House of Representatives.
The Census Bureau is expected to release results of the 2010 Census on Tuesday, the first look at how the country has changed over the last decade.
When the Census Bureau released its annual U.S. poverty report last week, the news looked grim. Poverty had risen to 14.3 percent in 2009 from 13.2 percent in 2008 -- the largest single-year increase since 1980. And there is no end in sight for those struggling to make ends meet, as unemployment has remained high throughout this year.
The number of people with health insurance in the United States dropped for the first time in 23 years, the U.S. Census Bureau said Thursday.
Business hiring is picking up, but not enough to make up for the massive losses of temporary government jobs.
There are 96 million people in the United States who have no spouse. That means 43 percent of all Americans over the age of 18 are single, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
The U.S. Census Bureau is giving back almost a quarter of the money it received to do its job this year.
The U.S. Census Bureau is giving back almost a quarter of the money it received to do its job this year.
For the second month in a row, the U.S. economy shed jobs as the government continued to unload census workers, offsetting disappointing gains in private business hiring.
African-American workers continue to earn far less than whites, according to statistics released by the U.S. Census Bureau.
Census workers are in the final stages of going door-to-door to complete the 2010 U.S. census, but some experts are looking further to the future to explore the way Americans work, live and identify themselves.
The U.S. economy lost jobs in June, for the first time this year, as modest hiring by businesses only partly offset the end of Census jobs.
U.S. stocks were poised for a dubious open Friday, as nervous investors digested a government jobs report that showed the economy lost jobs for the first time this year.
A couple of months ago, a recovery in the U.S. labor market seemed to be at hand. That hope has proved as fleeting as a job with the Census Bureau.
For the past eight weeks, census workers have been knocking on doors and ringing bells all across America -- but in some cases, they've been nixing questions about race and ethnicity, says a new government report.
The booming Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area added more residents during the past decade than any other city in the United States.
The fastest growing large county in the United States is not in a trendy Sun Belt state. It's in Illinois, a member in good standing of the Rust Belt.
Oil prices dropped Friday after a government report said almost all of the jobs added last month were temporary Census workers, and the euro fell to a 4-year low.
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