Direct Link Video Player. The Direct Link is a hyperlink that opens the player in a full screen browser window. It's ideal when you'd like to send the video via email or post a link on Twitter or Facebook. When the hyperlink is clicked, a new browser window is opened with the video player in it.
Twin Births in the U.S., Like Never Before. More twins are being born in the United States than ever before. From 1980 to 2009, according to a recent report by the National Center for Health Statistics, the rate of twin births rose 76 percent. Now about one in 30 babies born in the United States is a twin.
Last updated: April 2015. Slightly fewer than 4 million babies are born in the United States each year, and the details of how, when, and where they arrive are always shifting. Total fertility rate is an estimate of the average number of births a group of women have over their lifetime. The U.S. fertility rate has been declining since 2007. The latest news is that the fertility rate in the United States is still waning â down 1 percent in 2013 from 2012.