Dec 18 High court rules challenge to Trump census plan is premature By Mark Sherman, Associated Press The Supreme Court has dismissed as premature a challenge to President Donald Trump's plan to exclude people living in the country illegally from the population count used to allot states seats in the House of Representatives. Continue reading
Dec 15 Watch 5:13 News Wrap: Six weeks after the election, McConnell recognizes Biden’s victory In our news wrap Tuesday, Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell publicly recognizes Joe Biden as president-elect for the first time, Biden selects Pete Butttigieg for transportation secretary, Congress shows signs of progress on economic relief, Boko Haram claims responsibility for… Continue watching
Dec 14 Watch 4:34 News Wrap: Early voting begins in Georgia’s Senate runoffs In our news wrap Monday, early voting began in Georgia's two U.S. Senate run-offs to determine which party controls the chamber, the U.S. formally blamed Iran for the abduction and presumed death of a former FBI agent, Major League Baseball's… Continue watching
Nov 30 Watch 5:25 Supreme Court reviews Trump effort to change census data on immigrants President Trump’s immigration policies and the U.S. census were back at the Supreme Court on Monday. As John Yang reports, the issues at stake in the case have the potential of shaping congressional and presidential politics for years to come. Continue watching
Nov 19 Anomalies found in data puts census deadline in jeopardy By Mike Schneider, Associated Press The Census Bureau already was facing a shortened schedule of two and a half months for processing the data collected during the 2020 census — about half the time originally planned. The Census Bureau wouldn't say Thursday what the anomalies… Continue reading
Nov 13 Census case that led to head count halt heads back to court By Mike Schneider, Associated Press A coalition of local governments and advocacy groups wants the court to make the Census Bureau revert to a deadline of next April for turning in numbers used for divvying up congressional seats. The Trump administration wants this done by… Continue reading
Nov 12 Advisory group worried about rural census, crunched timeline By Mike Schneider, Associated Press The Census Scientific Advisory Committee said Thursday during a virtual meeting that, given they have low Internet access, residents of rural areas are particularly at risk of being undercounted since field operations ended two weeks earlier than planned. Continue reading
Nov 07 Census takers say they were told to enter false information By Mike Schneider, Associated Press Two census takers tell The Associated Press that their supervisors pressured them to enter false information into a computer system about homes they had not visited. Continue reading
Oct 23 U.S. census takers fall short of target goal By Mike Schneider, Associated Press The Census Bureau says it did reach 99.9 percent of the nation's households — but the missing 0.1 percent still represents hundreds of thousands of uncounted residents. Continue reading
Oct 16 Justices to weigh Trump census plan to exclude noncitizens By Mark Sherman, Jessica Gresko, Associated Press The justices signaled in their order Friday that they will hear arguments in December and issue a decision by early January, when Trump must report the once-a-decade census results to Congress. Continue reading