NEW DELHI (IANS) – India’s population is projected to reach 1.46 billion in 2025, making it the world’s most populous nation, according to the United Nations Population Fund’s State of World ...

China clocked its lowest birth rate on record in 2025 as its population shrank for the fourth year in a row, deepening a demographic challenge that could drag on the world’s second-largest economy for ...

The average U.S. mortgage rate falls to 6.06%, marking the lowest level since 2022 and easing costs for homebuyers. Trump’s pardon of convicted woman is the second time he’s erased her sentence in a ...

Hiring in December was muted, though the unemployment rate inched down – a soft end to the 2025 labor market that revealed underlying signs of strain. US employers added 50,000 jobs in December – a ...

Private-sector hiring slowed in November, sinking to one of its weakest readings in more than a decade and signaling growing concern about a cooling labor market. The private-sector hiring rate sank ...

New rates: North Carolina income tax is 4.25% for 2025 and 3.99% for 2026. Triggers tie further cuts to revenue; exceeding $33 billion would lower rate to 3.49%. Budget impasse stems from House–Senate ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — 2025 will go down as a historic year for public safety in Memphis. Last week, Mayor Paul Young said “serious crimes” were at a 25-year low. The mayor said that since he took office in ...

Some experts say violent crime in the nation is down to pre-pandemic levels. This year began with a deadly New Year's Day car-ramming terrorist attack in New Orleans and is finishing with a flurry of ...

The average rate on a 30-year U.S. mortgage fell to its lowest level of 2025 this week, an encouraging sign for prospective home buyers. The average long-term mortgage rate dipped to 6.15% from 6.18% ...

Violent crime in Newark fell 19% in 2025, with the number of murders hitting yet another historic low of 31 as of Tuesday, despite a pair of multiple-homicides late in the year that city officials ...

The United States is set to see the largest one-year decline in murders ever recorded, according to a crime data analyst. Jeff Asher, the co-founder of AH Datalytics, says the Real-Time Crime Index ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Photo credit: AP) President Donald Trump got an early Christmas gift this year — data showing the U.S. is set to close 2025 with ...