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The frame of new home under construction sits in a neighborhood under development in north Dallas, Thursday, April 15, 2021. The first numbers from the 2020 census show southern and western states gaining congressional seats. The once-a-decade head count shows where the population grew during the past 10 years and where it shrank. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

US marks slowest population growth since the Depression

The first numbers from the 2020 census are out and show that America's population growth has declined to its slowest rate since the Great Depression - a total now of just under 331.5 million
President Joe Biden is preparing to sign an executive order to increase the minimum wage to $15 an hour for federal contractors. Administration officials say it will provide a pay bump to hundreds of thousands.

Biden to sign $15 minimum wage for federal contract workers

President Joe Biden is set to sign an executive order to increase the minimum wage to $15 an hour for federal contractors, providing a pay bump to hundreds of thousands of workers.
National Guard soldiers stand their posts around the Capitol at sunrise in Washington. Partisan tensions have only gotten worse on Capitol Hill since Pelosi’s defiant act last year, days before the Senate acquitted Trump in his first impeachment trial. Since then, the Capitol has been through the Jan. 6 insurrection, another House impeachment and another Senate acquittal.

Cooling the temperature: Biden faces fractious Congress

Partisan tensions have only deepened on Capitol Hill since Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's defiant act last year, which came days before the Senate acquitted Trump in his first impeachment trial. Since then, the U.S. Capitol has been through the Jan. 6 insurrection, a second impeachment of Trump and another acquittal.
Illinois was one of three states to lose population between the 2010 and 2020 census.

Illinois' congressional loss reflects long trend

This week's announcement that Illinois would lose a congressional seat is the continuation of a trend in the state's population since the post-World War II era. Although Illinois is the sixth-largest state in terms of population, it used to rank even higher.
President Joe Biden speaks about COVID-19 vaccinations at the White House, in Washington. Biden spent his first 100 days encouraging Americans to mask up and stay home to slow the spread of COVID-19. His task for the next 100 will be to encourage the opposite behavior and manage the nation’s transition back to normalcy.
In fight against virus, Biden looks for path back to normal
President Joe Biden spent his first 100 days in office encouraging Americans to mask up and stay home to slow the spread of COVID-19. His task for the next 100 days will be to lay out the path back to normal.
Internally displaced tribal leader Dawlat Khan plays with his children and nephews in a house on the outskirts of Jalalabad, Afghanistan, Wednesday, April 21, 2021. Khan fled his village of Pananzai with his six brothers and their families at the height of the battles against the Islamic State terror network. They're not rushing home, even though the family of 63 people is crammed into nine small rooms in Nangarhar's provincial capital of Jalalabad. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
Islamic State degraded in Afghanistan but still poses threat
America is winding up its longest war, calculating that the terror threat out of Afghanistan can't reach to its shores and that threats to the West by militants can be defused from a distance
FILE - In this Monday, March 29, 2021 file photo, a man prepares for his AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine at Ndirande Health Centre in Blantyre, Malawi. Some Africans are hesitating to get COVID-19 vaccines amid concerns about their safety, alarming public health officials as some countries start to destroy thousands of doses that expired before use. (AP Photo/Thoko Chikondi, File)
In Africa, vaccine hesitancy adds to slow rollout of doses
Some Africans are hesitating to get COVID-19 vaccines amid concerns about their safety,
A "Sale Pending" sign stands along side a new driveway in Madison County, Miss., Tuesday, March 16, 2021. U.S. home prices increased at the fastest pace in seven years in January as the pandemic has fueled demand for single-family houses even as the supply for such homes shrinks. The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller 20-city home price index, released Tuesday, March 20, rose 11.1% in January from a year earlier. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
US home prices rose 11.9% in February, fastest since 2014
U.S. home prices rose in February at the fastest pace in nearly seven years as strong demand for housing collided with tight supplies of homes on the market
In this image taken from Alameda Police Department body camera video, Alameda Police Department officers attempt to take 26-year-old Mario Gonzalez into custody, April 19, 2021, in Alameda, Calif. The video goes on to show officers pinning Gonzalez to the ground during the arrest that ended in his death. (Alameda Police Department via AP)
Police video shows California man died after police held him
Officials in the Northern California city of Alameda have released nearly an hour of video showing officers pinning a man to the ground during an arrest that ended in his death
The COVID-19 death toll in India has crossed 200,000 as the country endures its darkest chapter of the pandemic yet
The COVID-19 death toll in India has crossed 200,000 as the country endures its darkest chapter of the pandemic yet
Washington National Cathedral stone carver Sean Callahan uses an air chisel to work on a sculpture of Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winning author Elie Wiesel at the cathedral, Thursday, March 25, 2021. Wiesel, who died in 2016, became an outspoken advocate for human rights causes around the world, helped found the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel gets seat at National Cathedral
Washington National Cathedral is unveiling its newest addition: a sculpture of iconic author, human rights campaigner and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel
Masked and unmasked pedestrians walk across Las Vegas Boulevard, Tuesday, April 27, 2021, in Las Vegas. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention eased its guidelines Tuesday on the wearing of masks outdoors, saying fully vaccinated Americans don't need to cover their faces anymore unless they are in a big crowd of strangers. (AP Photo/John Locher)
Outdoor mask guidance echoes what many Americans already do
Fully vaccinated Americans don't need to wear masks outdoors anymore unless they are in big crowds
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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Volunteers plant native plants like St. John’s Wort for Earth Day at Pederson Preserve in Barrington Thursday.
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Glenbrook North’s Julia Gehrs, right, pressures Evanston goalie Nina Kaiser in front of the net during Thursday’s girls water polo game in Northbrook.
GIRLS WATER POLO: GLENBROOK NORTH 8, EVANSTON 7
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Palatine resident Jason Sassorossi has a petition signed by 300 people for a dog park at Deer Grove Forest Preserve in Palatine. He has three dogs. Achilles, left, and Hector, right, are German shepherds and Luke is a Norwegian elkhound.
Dogs make a prominent appearance in The Week in Pictures photo gallery for April 10-16, 2021.
Glenbrook South’s Sammi Klemm (5) and Caroline Crawford (12) celebrate with their teammates as they close in on victory during Wednesday’s match against Glenbrook North. The Titans won 2-1, with scores of 26-24, 28-30, 25-21.
Girls volleyball: GLENBROOK SOUTH TITANS 2, GLENBROOK NORTH SPARTANS 1
The Glenbrook South High School boys swim team jumps into the pool with the Illinois Swimming and Diving Association state championship trophy Friday. The team was recognized during halftime at South’s football game against Maine South.
Glenbrook South boys swim team celebrates state championship win with a splash
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