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Michael Sutphin elected next Mayor of Blacksburg

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Data scientists perform last rites for 'dearly departed datasets' in 2nd Trump administration

Read full article: Data scientists perform last rites for 'dearly departed datasets' in 2nd Trump administration

A group of U.S. data scientists has published a list of federal datasets that have been altered or removed since President Donald Trump returned to the White House.

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Retirees and students in Florida are seeking to defend 2020 census results against a GOP challenge

Read full article: Retirees and students in Florida are seeking to defend 2020 census results against a GOP challenge

Two Florida college students and an advocacy group for retirees are asking a federal judge to let them intervene in a lawsuit to defend census methods used to protect privacy and fill in missing data.

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Florida officials didn't disclose funding request for 'Alligator Alcatraz' facility, lawsuit says

Read full article: Florida officials didn't disclose funding request for 'Alligator Alcatraz' facility, lawsuit says

Florida officials have been accused of failing to disclose their application for federal reimbursement for an immigration detention center in the Everglades known as "Alligator Alcatraz."

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DOJ contradicts DeSantis: Some detainees at 'Alligator Alcatraz' likely never in removal proceedings

Read full article: DOJ contradicts DeSantis: Some detainees at 'Alligator Alcatraz' likely never in removal proceedings

U.S. government lawyers say detainees at the Florida Everglades immigration detention center, known as "Alligator Alcatraz," likely include people who have never been in removal proceedings.

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Feds approve Florida for a $608 million 'Alligator Alcatraz' reimbursement

Read full article: Feds approve Florida for a $608 million 'Alligator Alcatraz' reimbursement

Federal officials have confirmed Florida's approval for a $608 million reimbursement for building and running an immigration detention center in the Everglades.

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Inside 'Alligator Alcatraz,' where detainees' uniform color is based on criminal history

Read full article: Inside 'Alligator Alcatraz,' where detainees' uniform color is based on criminal history

Detainees arriving at the immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades are given color-coded uniforms and segregated based on criminal history and flight risk.

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Family's attorney questions Universal's response to roller coaster injuries after man's death

Read full article: Family's attorney questions Universal's response to roller coaster injuries after man's death

Attorney Ben Crump has announced that multiple people have contacted the family of Kevin Rodriguez Zavala, a 32-year-old man who died from blunt force injuries on the Stardust Racers roller coaster at Universal's Epic Universe on September 17, to share similar stories.

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Census Bureau to test using postal workers as census takers in 2030 field trials next year

Read full article: Census Bureau to test using postal workers as census takers in 2030 field trials next year

The Census Bureau plans to test using U.S. postal workers as census takers in at least two locations next year during field tests for the 2030 census.

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Woman sues Universal Orlando over injuries from same roller coaster in which man died after ride

Read full article: Woman sues Universal Orlando over injuries from same roller coaster in which man died after ride

A woman has sued Universal Orlando Resort, claiming she was injured on a roller coaster at its newest theme park.

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Trump appointee George Cook takes interim lead at Census Bureau amid new census push

Read full article: Trump appointee George Cook takes interim lead at Census Bureau amid new census push

A Trump appointee has been picked as the acting head of the U.S. Census Bureau.

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Experts independently resurrect Census Bureau advisory committee axed by Trump administration

Read full article: Experts independently resurrect Census Bureau advisory committee axed by Trump administration

A U.S. Census Bureau advisory committee disbanded by the Trump administration has reconstituted itself.

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Income inequality dipped and fewer people moved, according to largest survey of US life

Read full article: Income inequality dipped and fewer people moved, according to largest survey of US life

Income inequality in the United States dipped last year, with median household income rising slightly.

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DeSantis' step toward victory on 'Alligator Alcatraz' sets up a funding dilemma for Florida

Read full article: DeSantis' step toward victory on 'Alligator Alcatraz' sets up a funding dilemma for Florida

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is facing a dilemma over the immigration detention center built in the Florida Everglades.

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Appeals court panel stops order to wind down operations at 'Alligator Alcatraz' in Everglades

Read full article: Appeals court panel stops order to wind down operations at 'Alligator Alcatraz' in Everglades

A federal appeals court panel has put on hold a lower court judge’s order to wind down operations of the immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz.”.

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Feds fight to keep 'Alligator Alcatraz' open amid legal battle as 3rd challenge is filed

Read full article: Feds fight to keep 'Alligator Alcatraz' open amid legal battle as 3rd challenge is filed

The federal government has asked a Miami judge to pause her order to close an immigration detention center in Florida's Everglades, known as "Alligator Alcatraz."

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A judge has ordered 'Alligator Alcatraz' in Florida to wind down operations. What happens now?

Read full article: A judge has ordered 'Alligator Alcatraz' in Florida to wind down operations. What happens now?

A federal judge has halted further expansion of the immigration detention center known as "Alligator Alcatraz" in the Florida Everglades.

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Federal data website outage raises concerns among advocates

Read full article: Federal data website outage raises concerns among advocates

A federal website that informs the public about data collection has gone down, causing concern among advocates.

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Judge weighs detainees' legal rights at 'Alligator Alcatraz' in Florida Everglades

Read full article: Judge weighs detainees' legal rights at 'Alligator Alcatraz' in Florida Everglades

A federal judge considered whether detainees have been denied their legal rights at a temporary immigrant detention center in the Florida Everglades.

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Q&A: Can Trump hold a census in the middle of a decade and exclude immigrants in the US illegally?

Read full article: Q&A: Can Trump hold a census in the middle of a decade and exclude immigrants in the US illegally?

President Donald Trump has instructed the Commerce Department to have the Census Bureau start work on a new census that would exclude immigrants who are in the United States illegally from the head count which determines political power and federal spending.

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Judge considers whether Florida's 'Alligator Alcatraz' detention center violates environmental law

Read full article: Judge considers whether Florida's 'Alligator Alcatraz' detention center violates environmental law

A federal judge heard arguments about an immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades, known as “Alligator Alcatraz.”.

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Attorneys: 'Alligator Alcatraz' detainees held without charges, barred from legal access

Read full article: Attorneys: 'Alligator Alcatraz' detainees held without charges, barred from legal access

Lawyers seeking a temporary restraining order against an immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades say that “Alligator Alcatraz” detainees have been barred from meeting attorneys.

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What to know about the man charged with trying to assassinate Trump in Florida

Read full article: What to know about the man charged with trying to assassinate Trump in Florida

A man charged with trying to assassinate President Donald Trump as he played golf in Florida was back in court Friday.

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Why are data nerds racing to save US government statistics?

Read full article: Why are data nerds racing to save US government statistics?

The data nerds are fighting back.

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Backstreet Boys' Brian Littrell sues Florida sheriff's office over beach trespassers

Read full article: Backstreet Boys' Brian Littrell sues Florida sheriff's office over beach trespassers

Backstreet Boys singer Brian Littrell says a local Florida sheriff’s office isn’t doing enough to protect his multimillion dollar beachfront property from trespassers and is asking a judge for an order commanding deputies to do so.

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System over Florida has potential to develop into tropical depression, weather service says

Read full article: System over Florida has potential to develop into tropical depression, weather service says

A weather system moving across Florida wasn’t even a tropical something but it has the potential to develop into a tropical depression as it moves across the Gulf later in the week.

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Republican donors and Florida's hurricane know-how helped build 'Alligator Alcatraz' so quickly

Read full article: Republican donors and Florida's hurricane know-how helped build 'Alligator Alcatraz' so quickly

Florida has converted an isolated airport in the Everglades into a massive immigration detention center called "Alligator Alcatraz."

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Pulse massacre survivors revisit the nightclub before it's razed for a permanent memorial

Read full article: Pulse massacre survivors revisit the nightclub before it's razed for a permanent memorial

Survivors and family members of the Pulse nightclub massacre nine years ago are getting a chance to walk through the long-shuttered, gay-friendly venue this week.

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From ‘Tudo bem?’ to ‘Gracias,’ a growing share of US residents speak a language other than English

Read full article: From ‘Tudo bem?’ to ‘Gracias,’ a growing share of US residents speak a language other than English

New figures released by the U.S. Census Bureau show that 22% of U.S. residents spoke a language other than English at home.

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US children of divorce have reduced earnings, increased chances of teen births and jail, study says

Read full article: US children of divorce have reduced earnings, increased chances of teen births and jail, study says

Young children of divorce in the U.S. have reduced earnings as adults and increased chances of teen pregnancy and incarceration.

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What keeps the safety director of the most vulnerable spot in US up at night before hurricane season

Read full article: What keeps the safety director of the most vulnerable spot in US up at night before hurricane season

No place is more vulnerable to hurricanes in the 50 U.S. states than the Florida Keys.

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Venezuelan workers at Disney put on leave from jobs after losing protective status

Read full article: Venezuelan workers at Disney put on leave from jobs after losing protective status

Almost four dozen Venezuelan workers who had temporary protected status have been put on leave by Disney after the U.S. Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to strip them of legal protections.

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DOGE targets Census Bureau, worrying data users about health of US data infrastructure

Read full article: DOGE targets Census Bureau, worrying data users about health of US data infrastructure

The group run by Elon Musk that aims to cut federal spending in the second Trump administration is targeting U_S_ Census Bureau surveys it claims are “wasteful."

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Is the Southern accent fixin' to disappear in parts of the US South?

Read full article: Is the Southern accent fixin' to disappear in parts of the US South?

Southern accents are disappearing in some parts of the U.S. South due to the migration of people into the region from other parts of the United States and around the world.

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When did Disney villains stop being so villainous? New show suggests they may just be misunderstood

Read full article: When did Disney villains stop being so villainous? New show suggests they may just be misunderstood

Cruella de Vil wanted to turn Dalmatian puppies into fur coats.

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Universal Epic Universe is the theme park resort's biggest bang yet in Florida

Read full article: Universal Epic Universe is the theme park resort's biggest bang yet in Florida

From Harry Potter to Super Mario Bros.

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Giant rodents cuddle with visitors at the Capybara Cafe in Florida

Read full article: Giant rodents cuddle with visitors at the Capybara Cafe in Florida

Animal lovers now have a place to hang out with the “it” animals of the moment.

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Hit by storms and disease, Florida's citrus growers try to survive until bug-free trees arrive

Read full article: Hit by storms and disease, Florida's citrus growers try to survive until bug-free trees arrive

Florida’s citrus growers are struggling to survive the one-two punch of hurricanes and disease.

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Immigrants fuel growth in major US urban counties

Read full article: Immigrants fuel growth in major US urban counties

The largest urban counties in the U.S. kept growing last year because of immigrants.

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Census Bureau under Trump seeks permission to delete questions about gender identity

Read full article: Census Bureau under Trump seeks permission to delete questions about gender identity

The U.S. Census Bureau under the Trump administration has sought permission to delete questions about gender identity from a monthly survey.

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Including people without legal status in census has had little impact on House seats, study finds

Read full article: Including people without legal status in census has had little impact on House seats, study finds

Republicans are trying to exclude people who are in the U.S. illegally from the numbers used to portion out congressional seats among the states.

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Robert Santos decides to resign as US Census Bureau director midway through a 5-year term

Read full article: Robert Santos decides to resign as US Census Bureau director midway through a 5-year term

The director of the U.S. Census Bureau has decided to resign.

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A GOP lawsuit to limit people in the US illegally from the census count will be harmful, voters say

Read full article: A GOP lawsuit to limit people in the US illegally from the census count will be harmful, voters say

Voters in California and Texas affiliated with a Democratic group want to intervene in a lawsuit filed by four Republican state attorneys general.

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Former Florida art museum director involved in Basquiat forged painting probe has died

Read full article: Former Florida art museum director involved in Basquiat forged painting probe has died

A former head of the Orlando Museum of Art who left the museum in 2022 after it was raided by the FBI as part of a probe into several forged Jean-Michel Basquiat paintings has died.

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Republicans renew efforts to limit people in US illegally from census count

Read full article: Republicans renew efforts to limit people in US illegally from census count

Republican efforts to exclude people in the U.S. illegally from numbers used to divvy up congressional seats among states have begun anew, with four Republican state attorneys general suing to alter the once-a-decade head count even before President Donald Trump’s second term in office began.

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US population projections shrink from last year because of declining birth rates, less immigration

Read full article: US population projections shrink from last year because of declining birth rates, less immigration

The Congressional Budget Office has shrunk its projections for the U.S. population in 30 years to 372 million residents.

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Multiracial boom in 2020 census was mostly an illusion, researchers say

Read full article: Multiracial boom in 2020 census was mostly an illusion, researchers say

When 2020 census results were released more than three years ago, they showed a 276% boom in the number of people classified as multiracial in the United States since 2010.

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The world population will be 8.09 billion on New Year's Day after a 71 million increase in 2024

Read full article: The world population will be 8.09 billion on New Year's Day after a 71 million increase in 2024

The world population increased by more than 71 million people in 2024 and will be 8.09 billion people on New Year’s Day.

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Trial of man accused in Trump assassination attempt in Florida pushed back to September

Read full article: Trial of man accused in Trump assassination attempt in Florida pushed back to September

A man accused of attempting to assassinate President-elect Donald Trump in South Florida won’t be tried until September 2025.

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US census data shows how Middle Eastern and Hispanic residents differ in racial identity

Read full article: US census data shows how Middle Eastern and Hispanic residents differ in racial identity

The U.S. Census Bureau currently is getting public feedback about how it should tally responses from people into new race and ethnicity groups.

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Immigration drives US population growth to highest rate in 23 years as residents pass 340 million

Read full article: Immigration drives US population growth to highest rate in 23 years as residents pass 340 million

Immigration in 2024 drove U.S. population growth to its fastest rate in 23 years as the nation surpassed 340 million residents.

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Fewer US grandparents are taking care of grandchildren, according to new data

Read full article: Fewer US grandparents are taking care of grandchildren, according to new data

Fewer grandparents were taking care of grandchildren, there was a decline in the number of preschoolers and more people were staying put in their homes in the first part of the 2020s compared with the last part of the 2010s.

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