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U.N. Quietly Lowers Population Forecasts ANALYSIS By Bill King - RCP ContributorJune 24, 2025 U.N. Quietly Lowers Population ForecastsAP For decades, we’ve been told that the world’s biggest problem is too many people. From Malthus in the 18th century to “The Population Bomb” in the 1960s, the warnings were dire: More people would mean more famine, more poverty, more environmental destruction. But something unexpected has happened. The demographic math has changed. And the United Nations, the world’s most cited authority on population forecasts, has taken notice. Until recently, their models predicted that the global population would continue to grow throughout...

ATLANTA — The family of Adriana Smith, a metro Atlanta nurse who was declared brain dead in February while pregnant, said her baby boy has arrived. According to her mother, April Newkirk, the infant, named Chance, was born prematurely Friday, June 13, around 4:41 a.m. by emergency Cesarean section. Newkirk said Chance weighs about 1 pound 13 ounces and is in NICU. "He's expected to be OK," Newkirk said. "He's just fighting. We just want prayers for him. Just keep praying for him. He's here now." She's now preparing to say goodbye to her daughter. Newkirk said the hospital will...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz gifted President Trump a gilded framed copy of his grandfather’s birth certificate during their first face-to-face meeting at the White House Thursday. The gold-encased present, a reflection of the president’s signature Oval Office décor, paid tribute to Friedrich Trump, who was born in Kallstadt, Germany, in 1869 and later immigrated to the United States. “That’s serious German,” Trump said in response to the gesture. “I want to thank you for that. That’s beautiful. Thank you very much. Fantastic. We’ll put it up in a place of honor.” Trump was previously gifted a “golden pager” from Israeli...

For the first time in the US, more babies are now born to moms 40–44 than 15–19. This marks 2 historical shifts for the US, plummeting teen pregnancy and gradually rising fertility for older women.

First daughter Tiffany Trump announced the birth of her baby on Thursday, writing on Instagram: "Welcome to the world our sweet baby boy, Alexander Trump Boulos." Alexander Trump Boulos' name is a combination of parts parents' names. Tiffany's husband is Michael Alexander Boulos, and in some families, parents choose to use the mother's maiden name as a middle name for the child. Tiffany Trump's father-in-law, Massad Boulos, is a Lebanese-American business magnate who serves as the president's senior adviser on Arab and Middle Eastern affairs. Boulos was an ardent backer of Trump's 2024 campaign, making frequent appearances on Lebanese television...

Mamamia spoke to six women about their experiences giving birth in seven different countries, where expectations around pregnancy, birth and postpartum care were distinctly unique. Simone is an Australian who moved to LA with her husband and two dogs for a planned two-year work (and life) adventure. They returned home eight years and two babies later. ‘In America, they allow you one or two nights in hospital but that’s it. You’re out,’ This was pretty much the opposite of Jodie’s experience in Tel Aviv, Israel where she had her first two babies. ‘They had a health centre dedicated to pre-natal...

One of our current cultural mantras is “you do you” - putting your personal desires over the greater good of others and society. In other words, living selfishly instead of selflessly.The manifestation of such a philosophy and its implications for our society is particularly acute when it comes to the institutions of marriage and family.As the late James Q. Wilson, former professor of government at Harvard University, wrote in his book, “The Marriage Problem”: “It is not money, but the family that is the foundation of public life. As it has become weaker, every structure built upon that foundation has...

Two Pennsylvania Democrats want to erase biological sex from birth certificates to enable people to more easily shift their “gender identity” without facing “bureaucratic roadblocks.” State Reps. Benjamin Sanchez and Joe Webster have proposed a bill that would remove the biological reality of sex from birth certificates — a move they say would “eliminate yet another form of discrimination people endure when there is an error in that category.” “As the times change, so does the need to assess our antiquated practices and procedures. Precedent already exists for amending what is required on birth certificate documents. For example, birth certificates...

(Oct. 24, 2024) — On Tuesday a video was uploaded to Rumble by “The Liberty Daily” depicting an apparent computer graphics technician detailing how he found the “long-form” birth certificate image posted by the Obama White House in 2011 to be a forgery, echoing the findings of then-Maricopa County, AZ Sheriff Joseph Arpaio and his lead investigator on the case, Mike Zullo. Various commenters to the video remarked it was “old news” but nevertheless important even nearly eight years after Zullo’s investigation, begun in August 2011 with Arpaio’s authorization, concluded, reinforcing its original findings that the image posted at whitehouse.gov...

The United States needs more migrants to replace the children that Americans are not producing, former President Bill Clinton said at a press event on Sunday. “America is not having enough babies to keep our populations up, so we need immigrants that have been vetted to do work,” Clinton said at a fish fry in Fort Valley, Georgia. He repeated the claim at another campaign stop on October 14, saying, “We got the lowest birth rate we’ve had in well over 100 years. We’re not at replacement level, which means we got to have somebody come here if we want...

Country singer Brantley Gilbert’s wife, Amber, welcomed their third child on a tour bus in the middle of his concert on Friday. ... The “Tattoos” singer had just started his set when he received word that Amber was in labor. He’s seen running to be by his wife’s side as she was giving birth inside the tour bus. The video shows the bundle of joy as Gilbert is on the phone with his mother to tell her the good news. “You got a new grandbaby,” he tells her. The singer goes on to call his wife “a freaking savage.” After...

Women Speak Out PAC, a partner of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, announced the launch of a $2 million digital ad campaign calling out Vice President Kamala Harris and the Democrats for prioritizing abortion on demand throughout pregnancy at the expense of women and children’s lives. The ads will reach a total of 2.6 million persuadable voters in Arizona, Georgia, Montana, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Ohio – part of the groups’ larger campaign, including efforts on the ground, to reach 10 million persuadable and low-turnout voters in the 2024 cycle. SUPPORT LIFENEWS! To help us fight Kamala Harris’ abortion...

Scientists finally re-analyzed the study and found that it was riddled with errors—but that didn’t matter then because it furthered the narrative. In America, an inordinate number of so-called “scientific” studies are subject to what’s called the “replication (or reproducibility) crisis.” If someone publishes a study that feeds into leftist shibboleths, no matter how poorly done the study is (small sampling, foolish assumptions, bad math, etc.), the results are widely trumpeted and become embedded in the popular consciousness. That the study cannot be replicated (run again from scratch) or reproduced (subject to a new analysis of the study’s data)—and often...

According to WebMD, "Limited research suggests that compared with women who don’t use hormonal birth control, those who do are more likely report feeling depressed, anxious, and angry. But those symptoms don’t make the list of common side effects." I've been researching stages of psychological development and personality development. This includes the balance between masculine and feminine and the confusion apparent in current society. While there are many influencing factors, including genetic, epigenetic, environmental influences both psychological and biochemical, my question relates to hormonal influences through biochemicals effecting the endocrine system. I've been following research relating to bass in parts...

CV NEWS FEED// A controversial, explicit statue of the Blessed Mother giving birth was decapitated only four days after it was displayed in the “New Cathedral,” in the Austrian city of Linz. The statue depicted the Blessed Mother in the moments before birth, with her abdomen and lower body completely exposed. The statue was part of an exhibition celebrating the New Cathedral’s 100th anniversary, the news agency Kronen Zeitung reports. Completed in 1924, the cathedral is the largest in Austria, and it can fit up to 20,000 people. Theologian Martina Resch explained during the exposition that the statue “is a...

God bless you all for watching the video! If you liked it and want to see more, please subscribe to the channel, comment your ideas and impressions, and don't forget to give that wonderful like! From the transcripts: "...Mary was the mother of Jesus describing her pregnancy the scriptures say that she was with a child Matthew 1:18 soon after conceiving she went to her relative Elizabeth then there was a celebration that the Messiah had just been conceived not only that but Elizabeth also referred to Mary as the mother of my Lord Luke 1:43 while Jesus had not...

Despite outrage from pro-choice advocates over abortion bans in some states following the Supreme Court ruling that determined the Constitution doesn't contain a right to abortion, the U.S. remains one of only eight countries that still allow abortion up to birth. The Charlotte Lozier Institute, the research arm of the pro-life advocacy group Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, released a report last week titled “Gestational Limits on Abortion in the United States Compared to International Norms.” The report, an update of findings previously published in 2014, lists the U.S. as one of just eight nations that permit abortions well into...

The 2024 Virginia General Assembly opens this week, and there is a small but powerful pro-abortion majority in both chambers. These pro-abortion members of the Senate and House of Delegates will block the passage of any strong anti-abortion bills and force through some dreadfully dangerous abortion measures that could turn Virginia into a location for unlimited abortion up to birth. The first thing a new pro-abortion majority is likely to do is to cast the first of two required votes in favor of a Virginia constitutional amendment allowing unlimited abortion right up to birth, which would start the process of...

With a nation full of crime, high prices, rising inflation and a bad economy, Democrats have very little to run on this presidential election. So more abortions is the pitch they keep pushing over and over again because it’s the only issue Joe Biden and pro-abortion Democrats have to rally their base. And Jill Biden promoted abortion in a new interview this week. Not only did she tout abortion, she said Joe Biden and Democrats would keep trying to secure abortions up to birth nationwide. Of course she didn’t use those words exactly – she couched that radical agenda behind...

(Jan. 5, 2024) — On December 31, 2023, seemingly out of nowhere, finance author Zach De Gregorio, founder of the subscription website WolvesandFinance.com, released a 26-minute video and blog post raising the question, “Whatever happened to Obama’s birth certificate?” In the video, which is available without a subscription and titled, “PROOF Obama’s Birth Certificate is Fake,” De Gregorio summarized the June 2008 internet release of a “short-form” birth certificate image bearing the name “Barack Hussein Obama II”; the eventual release of a purported “long-form” birth certificate by the White House in April 2011; and some of the key points from...