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Sovereign state in Northwestern Europe
There is no single, authoritative list of countries that “have no age‑verification or record‑keeping requirements” for adult producers; reporting and industry guides identify a shifting patchwork wher...
Between 2020 and 2025 the dominant trend in available reporting is not widespread removal of age limits but the introduction, enforcement, or legal contestation of age‑verification requirements for on...
Major independent media-rating and fact‑checking organizations give Fox News consistently critical credibility or reliability scores: Media Bias/Fact Check labels Fox News “Right” bias with a Low fact...
Australia’s new rules requiring platforms to take “reasonable steps” to prevent under‑16s from having social media accounts take effect on 10 December 2025 under the Social Media Minimum Age rules (th...
Age-of-consent laws vary widely worldwide, with commonly reported minimums clustering between 14–16 but claimed extremes as low as 11–12 and as high as 21 in some lists; many sources also distinguish ...
Multiple news reports from March through October 2025 document that , but the lists vary and the reasons mix security concerns with objections to U.S. policies, including entry-document rules for gend...
Eurostat reports that police-recorded sexual violence in the EU rose 79.2% from 2013 to 2023 and that rape offences more than doubled (a 141% increase) in that period; in 2023 the EU recorded 91,370 r...
Former US presidents and prominent former officials have publicly criticized President Donald Trump on multiple fronts, focusing on competence, rhetoric, and policy impacts; the available analyses hig...
The materials indicate a recognizable surge in right-wing and far-right activity across multiple countries during 2025, visible in electoral gains, mass rallies, violent demonstrations, and the elevat...
Public datasets and sector reports show a concentration of reported CSAM in a handful of countries and regions: NCMEC’s CyberTipline received tens of millions of platform reports in recent years, with...
The 2025–2026 influenza vaccine program recommends annual vaccination for everyone aged 6 months and older and includes H1N1, H3N2 and influenza B in the U.S. formulations; the FDA updated strain sele...
Multiple official and quasi-official actors—including at least a handful of national governments, groups of states intervening in litigation, and United Nations fact-finding bodies—have described or l...
U.S. News & World Report’s Best Countries project places the United States near the top of its overall 2024/2025 list — the U.S. reached No. 3 in that ranking . Other surveys show more variation: Repu...
Europe is experiencing an early, H3N2-dominated 2025–26 influenza season driven largely by a drifted H3N2 “subclade K,” which accounts for about one‑third of global H3N2 sequences and almost half of H...
Definitions of “white” or “European descent” vary by discipline and purpose: population studies and diasporas often mean ancestry from Europe or “people of predominantly European descent” (see a 2024–...
The short phrase "Great replacement reality" invokes a debunked, far‑right conspiracy that claims demographic change is a deliberate plot to replace white populations; . Recent reporting and analysis ...
European immigration laws in 2025 diverge from U.S. law primarily in institutional structure and immediate policy emphasis: , while the United States emphasizes employment-based admission routes and h...
Most countries that mandate fingerprinting at immigration offer little or no formal "opt-out": the EU’s Entry/Exit System (EES) requires four fingerprints and a facial image on first entry to 29 Schen...
The available analyses present conflicting claims about the Newsom family’s geographic origins before settling in California: one cluster of sources traces the surname to (West Yorkshire, East Riding,...
Canada is widely regarded as one of the world’s most favorably perceived nations in 2025, but it is not the consistent or unanimous “best country” across major rankings — some measures place Canada at...