New analysis from demographer Richard Alba indicates that 1 in 8 U.S. children are mixed-race.

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Soldiers from an elite unit of the Korean People’s Army dispatched to the region have not started fighting alongside Russian troops, but officials predicted they would help in an anticipated ...

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