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Reporting shows a large and growing wave of state-level proposals targeting “geoengineering” and related weather-modification activities: outlets and trackers count anywhere from about 10 states up to...
President Trump posted that Rob Reiner “reportedly” died because of “Trump Derangement Syndrome,” blaming Reiner’s outspoken criticism of Trump for the director’s killing; news outlets report the comm...
The name Sasha (or Sascha) Riley refers to multiple, distinct individuals across public records: a Rice University grants administrator (Sasha Riley) , a nurse/residency director profile , a collegiat...
Available reporting shows two different snapshots of U.S. troop levels in Europe: government and think‑tank tallies put the force at roughly 65,000–85,000 service members in early–mid 2025, while news...
President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” and a related Department of Education rule change removed nursing and several other health programs from the department’s list of “professional degree...
Counting of U.S. white‑supremacist and hate groups is inconsistent across trackers, but major monitoring organizations report the largest raw numbers in big, populous states: the Southern Poverty Law ...
Reporting from organizations that track extremist groups shows the Ku Klux Klan remained present and staging public activity in 2024–2025, with the ADL identifying 42 Klan-affiliated groups active acr...
Estimates and reporting show the Ku Klux Klan in 2025 exists as many small, often unstable factions rather than a single national organization; the Southern Poverty Law Center and analysts place activ...
Data from the 2023 American Community Survey shows many of the states with the highest poverty rates are in the South and Southwest, and a plurality of those high-poverty states are under Republican c...
National polling through early January 2026 shows Donald Trump running below majority approval in most large trackers, with averages and reputable polls clustering in the high-30s to low‑40s for “appr...
Multiple independent and contemporaneous reports state that J.D. Vance attended Yale Law School from 2010 to 2013 and received a Juris Doctor in May 2013; Yale Daily News, Business Insider, BestColleg...
As of 2025 the available analyses show the national U.S. poverty rate around 10.6% in 2024, with evidence that experienced substantially higher poverty by some measures (the Supplemental Poverty Measu...
Several recent reports say an expanding group of US states have introduced or advanced legislation that would restrict or ban atmospheric geoengineering and related activity; counts vary by source but...
President Donald Trump posted that Rob Reiner and his wife “reportedly” died “due to the anger he caused” and labeled Reiner as suffering from “TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME,” drawing immediate bipartisa...
President Donald Trump posted that Rob Reiner “died reportedly due to the anger he caused others” and blamed “TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME,” prompting swift condemnation from lawmakers, entertainers and...
Owsley County, Kentucky is among the poorest U.S. counties with high poverty and heavy reliance on government benefits; multiple data sets put poverty in the roughly 24–29% range and show SNAP partici...
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...
Available reporting and research shows that organized Ku Klux Klan activity in 2025 is limited to a relatively small number of states, concentrated largely in the South and in pockets elsewhere; advoc...
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...
Between 2020 and 2025 the clearest, well-documented peanut-butter–associated Salmonella recall in available reporting is J.M. Smucker’s voluntary recall of select Jif products announced in May 2022 (l...