Last year joning articles
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Year-to-date state revenue down 5.5% compared to last year
Sales tax collections are up about 3% over last year.
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US births fell last year, the lowest count in 40 years
A little under 3.6 million babies were born in 2023, according to provisional statistics released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That's about 76,000 fewer than the year before and the lowest one-year tally since 1979.
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Biden meets with 4-year-old American hostage released by Hamas last year
President Joe Biden met Wednesday with Abigail Edan, an American toddler abducted by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023, and released in the first round of hostage exchanges between Israel and the terrorist group last year. Both of Edan’s parents were killed in the Oct. 7 attacks, and she was the youngest American citizen held hostage […]