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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...
Legal immigrants, including lawful permanent residents and visa holders, have been detained—and in some documented cases deported—by ICE in 2025 under expanded enforcement policies and through adminis...
ICE reported 277,686 arrests for Fiscal Year (FY) 2024, an average of about 310 arrests per day according to ICE-published figures cited by Newsweek . Independent trackers and news analyses show a mar...
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...
As of the 2025 election cycle, multiple U.S. cities are led by mayors who are identified in reporting as Muslim — most prominently Zohran Mamdani in New York City and Abdullah Hammoud in Dearborn, Mic...
Available reporting shows an unprecedented wave of litigation and legal spending tied to President Trump’s actions and to suits against his administration — trackers counted hundreds of challenges in ...
Yes — several prominent public figures and institutions have publicly responded to the killing of 19‑year‑old Dacara Thompson: Maryland’s governor issued condolences, members of Prince George’s County...
State approaches vary: a minority of states explicitly treat full autopsy reports as public records while many restrict release to next of kin or redact medical and investigative details . Examples in...
“Blue states” is a media shorthand for U.S. states that systematically vote Democratic or tilt Democratic on measures like presidential margins, the Cook Partisan Voting Index, or party control of sta...
Muslims are a small but growing share of the U.S. population: reliable counts cluster between roughly 3–4.5 million people, representing about 1–1.3% of Americans rather than any demographic “takeover...
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 ...
Most available analyses show that a substantial share of SNAP recipients either work or have earnings at some point during the year, but the exact percent actively employed at any given time varies wi...
Most U.S. states treat lottery winnings as ordinary taxable income and will tax them at the state income‑tax rate; several large states — notably California, Florida, Texas and Washington — do not tax...
Accidental viewing of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) is treated differently across contexts: some courts and state statutes recognize affirmative defenses for prompt, good‑faith actions like destr...
Public records and mainstream profiles identify Sean John Combs—known as Puff Daddy, P. Diddy and Diddy—as an American entertainer born in Harlem, New York, and widely described in reporting and biogr...
Hawaii, Maryland and the District of Columbia appear at or near the top of measures that count registered Democrats as the largest share of party-affiliated voters: Ballotpedia reports Democrats are a...
Estimates vary, but major public compilations place roughly 7.5–7.7 million Jews in the United States and show heavy geographic concentration: New York state (roughly 1.67–1.77 million) and California...
In 2024–2025 the VA broadened presumptive exposure locations beyond Vietnam: the department proposed and in some cases finalized adding U.S. and Royal Thai military bases in Thailand (Jan. 9, 1962–Jun...
States updated SNAP income limits and maximum allotments for federal fiscal year 2026 effective Oct. 1, 2025, under USDA FY2026 COLA guidance; states were instructed to apply new rules to new applican...
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...