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The assembled reporting and analyses point to as states where ICE activity and deployments were most visible in 2025, but the available items do not provide definitive, agency-wide headcounts or per-c...
ICE operated a large, dispersed network of detention facilities in and before 2024, ranging from dedicated ICE processing centers to county jails holding immigration detainees; reporting and advocacy ...
Washington repealed its long-standing sales- and use-tax exemption for precious-metal bullion and monetized bullion effective January 1, 2026, making retail sales of qualifying gold, silver and coins ...
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...
State-by-state percentages of registered Republicans are published compilations from state election offices; USAFacts’ August 2025 dataset reports 37.4 million registered Republicans out of about 189....
Since 2020, reporting shows a renewed push by some Republican lawmakers and state officials to curb the influence of “Sharia” by advancing new bills or touting existing laws; Texas actions and multipl...
is actively practiced in at least nine states — , , , , , , , and — and is largely implemented and funded at local or state levels rather than by a unified federal program . Oversight is a patchwork o...
A small but growing number of states legally let jackpot winners of multi‑state games like Powerball and Mega Millions remain anonymous; sources identify New Jersey and multiple unnamed states that pe...
The available contemporaneous reporting indicates that, following the 2024 general election and as the 119th Congress was seated, twelve states had in their U.S. House delegations: . This finding is r...
States set Medicaid and CHIP income cutoffs as percentages of the Federal Poverty Level (FPL) that vary by program and household size; many adults in expansion states qualify up to roughly 138% of FPL...
The shorthand “red states vs blue states” denotes U.S. states that reliably vote Republican (red) or Democratic (blue) in presidential and many statewide contests, a convention that crystallized after...
State-run weather modification in the United States today is largely a patchwork of cloud‑seeding programs administered by state agencies, local water districts and multi‑county authorities—examples i...
Several U.S. states have moved to expand access to by authorizing over‑the‑counter (OTC) sales or allowing pharmacists to dispense it without a prescription, creating a patchwork of state-level rules ...
As written sources in the provided dataset do not agree on a single cumulative figure for “people detained by ICE in 2025,” the clearest published snapshot is , described as the highest total since an...
States vary widely in what counts as an law: some have created independent redistricting commissions to remove partisan control, others have state court rulings or statutes limiting partisan maps, and...
Since January 2025, reporting shows enforcement activity on two levels: concentrated, high-profile federal surges — most visibly in — and a broader expansion of detention and local cooperation that to...
The U.S. has approved construction of a Qatari Emiri Air Force training facility at Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho — but reporting repeatedly states this is a facility hosted inside a U.S. base...
Sanctuary policies do not automatically create a federal “Medicaid-like” entitlement for undocumented immigrants, but many sanctuary jurisdictions and sanctuary states do take steps to expand access t...
Thirty-four U.S. states still allow marriage under age 18, and four states—California, Mississippi, New Mexico, and Oklahoma—have been reported as having when parental or judicial approval is availabl...
: a core of states reliably delivers large margins for Republican presidential candidates while a different set of states and consistently return large margins for Democrats; a smaller group of flips ...