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Tina Peters is the former Mesa County, Colorado, clerk who was convicted in 2024 for her role in a security breach of her office’s voting equipment and is serving a nine‑year prison sentence; a federa...
Undocumented immigrants are generally ineligible for federally funded full health coverage (Medicaid, CHIP, Medicare) and cannot get Marketplace subsidies; federal “Emergency Medicaid” reimburses only...
Reporting in 2025 shows multiple outlets and research groups saying ICE was given numerical arrest targets that led to a big increase in interior arrests — examples include reports of instructions for...
Courts and advocates have challenged a wide range of ICE practices as unconstitutional — from warrantless detentions and courthouse arrests to detention conditions, mandatory no‑bond policies, biometr...
Several recent state bills sought to change ages tied to sexual consent, marriage, medical consent, or criminal prosecution — mostly to raise ages (e.g., Oklahoma’s HB1003 to raise statutory‑rape thre...
President Donald J. Trump has granted clemency to more than 1,600 people since returning to the White House in January 2025, a tally that includes mass pardons and numerous individual pardons and comm...
Available reporting is conflicted about whether Walmart permanently closed specific stores in 2025: several outlets and aggregators published lists naming 11 stores across states such as California, G...
Medicaid Fraud Control Units (MFCUs) reported a combined $1.4 billion in recoveries for fiscal year 2024, driven largely by a record $961 million in criminal recoveries and unusually large criminal re...
Reporting and public records show multiple lawsuits, consent decrees and local findings alleging ICE violated laws, court orders or local permits—most prominently extended federal rulings that ICE mad...
Donald Trump publicly announced plans to withhold federal payments from “sanctuary cities” and the states that host them, and his administration has already frozen or sought to terminate specific gran...
All 435 U.S. House seats are up for election on November 3, 2026, and while Republicans must hold at least 218 to retain control . Analysts converge that a small number of highly competitive districts...
U.S. citizens who are wrongfully arrested or detained by ICE have multiple legal avenues—administrative claims under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA), civil-rights suits (including challenges under ...
As of the sources provided, a majority of reporting distinguishes ordinary state driver’s licenses (19 states + DC as of 2023–2025 reporting) from federally regulated commercial driver’s licenses (CDL...
A loose but active global cloud-seeding landscape in 2025 spans dozens of countries — led by state-scale programs in China, the UAE, India, Australia and multiple U.S. states — with the World Meteorol...
No U.S. state has successfully eliminated property taxes statewide; every state levies property taxes in some form, though rates and exemptions vary widely . Coverage that celebrates “states with no p...
Available reporting shows there is no single list of states that universally allow “abortion up to the moment of birth”; instead, states vary — some have no term limits, some permit abortions up to vi...
As of late 2025, the least restrictive jurisdictions are those that have codified abortion protections and layered policies that "enhance access" — notably the District of Columbia and a group of stat...
Tina Peters was convicted in 2024 of felony charges tied to helping an unauthorized person access Mesa County’s Dominion voting machines and copy their hard drives; she is serving a nine‑year state se...
Nine states still tax at least some Social Security benefits as of the 2025 tax year, though the rules differ widely by state and income; West Virginia is completing a legislated phase‑out so it will ...
Processing times for REAL ID credentials vary widely by state: some states report mail turnaround of about 10–15 days (Missouri) or roughly two weeks (California), while others faced backlogs of 70+ d...