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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...
A new COVID-19 vaccine formulation for the 2025–2026 season has received FDA approval, but as of the latest agency and institutional notices it does not yet carry a formal ACIP/CDC recommendation — le...
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...
“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 ...
There is no clear, sourced identification of a person labeled "witness 14" in the set of reporting provided; the documents and snippets touch on TV episode credits, a grand-jury matter involving a mus...
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 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...
depends on the metric: presidential voting margins, partisan control of governorships, state legislatures, or full trifecta control (governor plus both legislative chambers) each tell a different stor...
A core federal baseline requires for recording, but a minority of jurisdictions impose all‑party (often called “two‑party”) consent — commonly cited as 11 states — meaning every participant must agree...
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...
Multiple reputable outlets report that federal immigration personnel deployed to since late 2025 and into January 2026 number in the low thousands, but counts vary by source and by which agencies are ...
“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...
Claims that Governor Maura Healey “gave $30,000 to illegal immigrants” refer to Massachusetts’ HomeBASE rental-assistance program, which critics say can provide up to $30,000 in aid over two years to ...
The recent “surges” under the current administration have overwhelmingly unfolded in Democratic-led or sanctuary jurisdictions — most visibly and other blue cities — rather than in Republican-led stat...