COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Harry Brook and Joe Root hit contrasting centuries in a 53-run win over Sri Lanka to seal England's 2-1 one-day international series victory Tuesday.
Brook smashed an unbeaten 136 off just 66 balls with nine sixes and 11 fours and Root followed his half-century in the second ODI with 111 off 108 balls as England breezed to 357-3.
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England's Jacob Bethell attempts to take a catch during the third ODI cricket match between England and Sri Lanka in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)
Sri Lanka's Pavan Rathnayake celebrates his century during the third ODI cricket match between England and Sri Lanka in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)
England's team members pose with the trophy following their win over Sri Lanka in the third ODI cricket match between England and Sri Lanka in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)
England's captain Harry Brook celebrates his century during the third ODI cricket match between England and Sri Lanka in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)
England's Joe Root plays a shot during the third ODI cricket match between England and Sri Lanka in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)
Pavan Rathnayake made 121 off 115 balls before he was the last batter to get dismissed and Sri Lanka got bowled out for 304 in the 47th over.
“Working on a few things in the nets and it paid off,” Brook said. “Glad me, Rooty and Beth could get us to that total … Root is exceptional, to have him in the side helps every day.”
Spinners once again made a big impact in England's first major ODI series win away from home since 2023 when Will Jacks (2-43), Liam Dawson (2-48) and Adil Rashid (2-61) grabbed six wickets.
It was Sri Lanka’s first series loss at home in five years since it fell to India in 2021.
Opener Rehan Ahmed (24) and Ben Duckett (7) missed out with Jacob Bethell hitting 65 and contributing in a 126-run third-wicket stand with Root, who dominated the spinners with his sweeps and reverse sweeps before raising his 20th ODI hundred.
But it was Brook’s brutal assault in the final five overs that cost Sri Lanka 88 runs as he played a dominant part in a 191-run stand with Root off just 113 deliveries.
Experienced legspinner Wanindu Hasaranga, playing his first game of the series, and Jeffrey Vandersay ended up with expensive figures of 1-76 each from their quota of 10 overs while fast bowler Asitha Fernando was smashed for 10 boundaries and two sixes and ended up with 0-77 off his nine overs.
England had a shaky start when it reached 40-2 in the 11th over when Duckett fell in offspinner Dhananjaya de Silva’s first over and Ahmed holed out of Hasaranga’s third ball. Root and Bethell both showed plenty of confidence against both pace and spin before Bethell pulled Vandersay to deep mid-wicket in the 32nd over.
Brook used his feet well against the spinners before he exploded in the 43rd over just after Root had raised his century off 100 balls as the England skipper's clean hitting set Sri Lanka a daunting target.
Pathum Nissanka (50) made a rapid half-century off 25 balls and gave Sri Lanka a good start before he got dismissed inside the power play as the home team slipped to 94-3 in the 10th over.
Th 23-year-old Rathnayake, playing in his fourth ODI, showed plenty of promise, but England kept on striking through its three spinners. Rathnayake struck a dozen fours and a six before Sam Curran had him clean bowled with a perfect yorker as he tried to play across the line.
“The result was disappointing,” Sri Lanka skipper Charith Asalanka said. “Positive was we found a good player at No. 4, Pavan Rathnayake. “(It is) really tough, was thinking the ball might turn, that’s why we played 3-4 spinners, but when it’s not turning, it’s hard to bowl spin.”
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England's Jacob Bethell attempts to take a catch during the third ODI cricket match between England and Sri Lanka in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)
Sri Lanka's Pavan Rathnayake celebrates his century during the third ODI cricket match between England and Sri Lanka in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)
England's team members pose with the trophy following their win over Sri Lanka in the third ODI cricket match between England and Sri Lanka in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)
England's captain Harry Brook celebrates his century during the third ODI cricket match between England and Sri Lanka in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)
England's Joe Root plays a shot during the third ODI cricket match between England and Sri Lanka in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump's crackdown on immigration contributed to a year-to-year drop in the nation's growth rate as the U.S. population reached nearly 342 million people in 2025, according to population estimates released Tuesday by the U.S. Census Bureau.
The 0.5% growth rate for 2025 was a sharp drop from 2024's almost 1% growth rate, which was the highest in two decades and was fueled by immigration. The 2024 estimates put the U.S. population at 340 million people.
Immigration increased by almost 1.3 million people last year, compared with 2024's increase of 2.8 million people. If trends continue, the gain from immigrants in mid-2026 will drop to only 321,000 people, according to the Census Bureau, whose estimates do not distinguish between legal and illegal immigration.
In the past 125 years, the lowest growth rate was in 2021, during the height of the coronavirus pandemic, when the U.S. population grew by just 0.16%, or 522,000 people and immigration increased by just 376,000 people because of travel restrictions into the U.S. Before that, the lowest growth rate was just under 0.5% in 1919 at the height of the Spanish flu.
Births outnumbered deaths last year by 519,000 people. While higher than the pandemic-era low at the beginning of the decade, the natural increase was dramatically smaller than in the 2000s, when it ranged between 1.6 million and 1.9 million people.
The immigration drop dented growth in several states that traditionally have been immigrant magnets.
California had a net population loss of 9,500 people in 2025, a stark change from the previous year, when it gained 232,000 residents, even though roughly the same number of Californians already living in the state moved out in both years. The difference was immigration since the number of net immigrants who moved into the state dropped from 361,000 people in 2024 to 109,000 in 2025.
Florida had year-to-year drops in both immigrants and people moving in from other states. The Sunshine State, which has become more expensive in recent years from surging property values and higher home insurance costs, had only 22,000 domestic migrants in 2025, compared with 64,000 people in 2024, and the net number of immigrants dropped from more than 411,000 people to 178,000 people.
New York added only 1,008 people in 2025, mostly because the state's net migration from immigrants dropped from 207,000 people to 95,600 people.
South Carolina, Idaho and North Carolina had the highest year-over-year growth rates, ranging from 1.3% to 1.5%. Texas, Florida and North Carolina added the most people in pure numbers. California, Hawaii, New Mexico, Vermont and West Virginia had population declines.
The South, which has been the powerhouse of growth in the 2020s, continued to add more people than any other region, but the numbers dropped from 1.7 million people in 2025 to 1.1 million in 2025.
“Many of these states are going to show even smaller growth when we get to next year,” Brookings demographer William Frey said Tuesday.
Tuesday's data release comes as researchers have been trying to determine the effects of the second Trump administration's immigration crackdown after the Republican president returned to the White House in January 2025. Trump made a surge of migrants at the southern border a central issue in his winning 2024 presidential campaign.
The numbers made public Tuesday reflect change from July 2024 to July 2025, covering the end of President Joe Biden's Democratic administration and the first half of Trump's first year back in office.
The figures capture a period that reflects the beginning of enforcement surges in Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon, but do not capture the impact on immigration after the Trump administration's crackdowns began in Chicago; New Orleans; Memphis, Tennessee; and Minneapolis, Minnesota.
The 2025 numbers were a jarring divergence from 2024, when net international migration accounted for 84% of the nation’s 3.3 million-person increase from the year before. The jump in immigration two years ago was partly because of a new method of counting that added people who were admitted for humanitarian reasons.
“They do reflect recent trends we have seen in out-migration, where the numbers of people coming in is down and the numbers going out is up,” Eric Jensen, a senior research scientist at the Census Bureau, said last week.
Unlike the once-a-decade census, which determines how many congressional seats and Electoral College votes each state gets, as well as the distribution of $2.8 trillion in annual government funding, the population estimates are calculated from government records and internal Census Bureau data.
The release of the 2025 population estimates was delayed by the federal government shutdown last fall and comes at a challenging time for the Census Bureau and other U.S. statistical agencies. The bureau, which is the largest statistical agency in the U.S., lost about 15% of its workforce last year due to buyouts and layoffs that were part of cost-cutting efforts by the White House and its Department of Government Efficiency.
Other recent actions by the Trump administration, such as the firing of Erika McEntarfer as Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, have raised concerns about political meddling at U.S. statistical agencies. But Frey said the bureau's staffers appear to have been “doing this work as usual without interference.”
“So I have no reason to doubt the numbers that come out,” Frey said.
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