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“Jingle Bells” began life as “The One Horse Open Sleigh,” published by James Lord Pierpont in 1857 and first publicly performed in a minstrel show in Boston that September, not as a church carol . Loc...
Federal reporting and agency materials make a clear, repeated claim: obstructing or otherwise interfering with an ICE arrest can trigger federal criminal exposure, and related federally cognizable off...
ICE arrests from Jan. 20 to mid-October 2025 show a large and growing share of people taken into custody who had no prior criminal convictions — studies and media analyses put that share anywhere from...
Available reporting shows that a large and growing share of people arrested by ICE in 2025 had no criminal convictions — national analyses find roughly one-third to three-quarters of arrests involved ...
The available documentation shows a : federal judges have found and limited unlawful ICE arrests in multiple cases, while ICE’s published policies assert formal detention and oversight procedures. Hig...
Seven states had no Republican members in the U.S. House of Representatives following the 2024 elections: Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Mexico, and Rhode Island. Thi...
“Jingle Bells” was written by James Lord Pierpont and first published in 1857 as “The One Horse Open Sleigh” (later reissued as “Jingle Bells”) — its earliest documented public performance appears on ...
The claim is : there are documented incidents of U.S. construction and roofing employers hiring workers lacking legal authorization and later triggering immigration enforcement, but reporting that a W...
Coca‑Cola has, according to the assembled reporting, closed or announced the closure of at least five U.S. bottling and distribution sites across California, Florida and Massachusetts, affecting rough...
Coca‑Cola has announced or carried out the closure of at least five U.S. production and distribution sites since late 2024, a wave of shutdowns that affects nearly 900 jobs across states including Cal...
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...
The apparent contradictions in which states spend the most or least on “welfare” arise from differing definitions and metrics: studies cite , , , and , producing different winners and losers. Using th...
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...
“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...
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 ...
Processing times for REAL ID credentials vary widely by state: some states report mail turnaround of about 10–15 days (Missouri) or roughly two weeks (California), while others faced backlogs of 70+ d...
The “FPL” refers to the federal poverty level, the annual income thresholds HHS publishes that many programs use to determine eligibility; eligibility for 2026 coverage and many 2026 program rules wil...
Reporting and peer-reviewed studies consistently find no evidence that allowing transgender people to use restrooms matching their gender identity increases assaults on cisgender women, and multiple l...
The available analyses present ; instead they contain a mix of jurisdictional figures and related metrics. Massachusetts’s registration dataset lists eligible voters (presented as a statewide total), ...
Massachusetts has depending on the question: as of October 2024, registered Republicans made up of all registered voters (434,887 of 5,142,343), which is the baseline party-enrollment figure . By cont...