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At least 10 states explicitly let jackpot winners claim Powerball or Mega Millions prizes anonymously — most consistently named are Delaware, Kansas, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, New Jers...
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...
Since 2010 dozens of U.S. states considered or passed laws aimed at blocking “Sharia” or foreign/religious law; databases count between roughly 201 and 233 anti‑Sharia/anti‑Muslim bills introduced acr...
Renee Nicole Good had recently relocated to the Twin Cities region and was living in Minneapolis with her partner when she was shot and killed during an ICE operation; local officials, family and mult...
States split into three practical categories: jurisdictions that permit entirely anonymous winners (a small list), those that permit claiming through entities (trusts or LLCs) but often still publish ...
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 ...
States that passed measures explicitly described as banning Sharia or restricting foreign/religious law include Arizona, Kansas, Louisiana, South Dakota, Tennessee, North Carolina and Alabama; Oklahom...
States enacted a variety of “Sharia bans” or foreign‑law restrictions mainly in 2010–2011, and several high‑profile measures (for example Oklahoma’s 2010 constitutional amendment) were later blocked b...
A plurality of U.S. states have some form of “stop-and-identify” statute that allows police who have reasonable, articulable suspicion of criminal activity to require a stopped person to identify them...
A minority of U.S. states let lottery winners avoid public naming outright; multiple outlets list roughly 9–11 “fully anonymous” states (commonly cited: Delaware, Kansas, Maryland, Mississippi, Missou...
Several U.S. states have passed age‑verification laws that led major adult sites — notably Pornhub (operated by Aylo) — to block access rather than implement state rules; by early 2025 at least 17 sta...
Since 2010, sources compiled in the analyses disagree on the exact roll call but converge that , with lists ranging from about ten to as many as sixteen states depending on definitions and later court...
Public reporting shows specific, documented incidents of racist language by some Republican-affiliated individuals — notably leaked Young Republicans group chats containing racial slurs, antisemitic c...
There are multiple precedents of government-run or government-supported grocery retail both in the United States and internationally, and their outcomes are mixed: some projects have improved local bu...
Available reporting shows that the number of clinician‑provided abortions in the U.S. rose from 2020 to 2024 and that total abortions nationwide were estimated at 1.14 million in 2024 according to Soc...
U.S. state-level efforts to ban “Sharia” or the use of foreign/religious law surged around 2009–2011, with more than two dozen and by some counts over 40 states considering measures; several states en...
Yes — under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo signed February 2, 1848 the United States agreed to pay Mexico $15 million "in consideration of the extension acquired by the boundaries of the United State...
Many U.S. states have considered or enacted laws that curtail courts’ use of foreign or religious law, and a subset of measures explicitly targeted “Sharia.” Wikipedia’s listing names Arizona, Kansas,...
CKF Group/CKF (the letters "CKF" appear in multiple, unrelated organizations) operates in at least three distinct businesses: addiction treatment services (CKF Addiction Treatment) offering detoxifica...
Ten states have continued to decline the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion — Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Wisconsin and Wyoming — leaving ro...