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The most-recent survey available, from January 2025, puts the homeless population in the U.S. at about 746,000, including about 134,000 children, according to the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

“We’re scared, we’re children, and we’re in a facility that looks like a jail.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026

First, his boat with around 160 people on board, including women and children, managed to evade the extra naval patrols off Mauritania and Senegal.

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026

Sweden's right-wing government withdrew Thursday a heavily contested proposal to lower the age at which children can be sentenced to prison from 15 to 13, citing a lack of support in parliament.

From Barron's • Jun. 11, 2026

From the sound of it, the human children had traveled two hundred bear paces westward.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman