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For more than two centuries, the Census Bureau has plotted America's population center, mapping a steady progression of westward and southward growth. With a boom in Texas and busts on the coasts sending the center South, what does the new center say about the nation's future?

U.S housing starts fell 5% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 549,000 in June as apartment construction and single-family houses dropped. The number of single-family housing starts fell 0.7% to an annual rate of 454,000, the Commerce Department said in a statement. Economists surveyed by...

Looks like that Climategate thing is about to kick into high gear again. Refuting the claims of global-warning critics, the World Meteorological Organization today released findings showing that the past decade was the hottest recorded in the 150 years that scientists have collected global...

Employment related to the tourism industry fell 149,000 in the first quarter of 2009, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce. The number of people working in this sector declined to 8.35 million. This is the worst drop the travel and tourism industry has sustained since the terror attacks of...

U.S. travel exports continued to slip in March, as potential visitors from overseas continue to feel the sting of the ongoing financial crisis. This is the second consecutive month in which net exports fell, signaling that the travel industry has quite a few more miles to travel before a recovery...