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The lone star tick (Amblyomma americanum) was observed by naturalists in eastern North America as early as the mid‑18th century and was first scientifically named by Carl Linnaeus in 1758 . Its histor...
Recent reporting indicates ’s latest round of closures disproportionately hits lower-income, low-density (rural) communities—with an especially large share of shuttered locations concentrated in the —...
Ice storms—defined by the National Weather Service as freezing‑rain events that leave at least 0.25 inches of ice—most commonly strike the Northeastern and Midwestern United States, but significant ev...
The strongest patterns in 2024–2025 show concentrated in the U.S. Southeast — especially , and — supplemented by small pockets and episodic rallies in other regions such as the and , while national-le...
El Niño and La Niña are opposite phases of ENSO that shift the Pacific jet stream and therefore alter U.S. winter temperature and snowfall patterns: La Niña typically favors colder-than-normal winters...
have historically inflicted their heaviest infrastructure damage in parts of the and —states such as , and repeatedly rank among the worst-hit because heavy ice accumulations there collapse trees and ...
Detention-bed minimums in ICE contracts—guaranteed payments for a set number of beds—have shaped where and whom ICE arrests and detains by creating financial and operational incentives to fill capacit...
Immigration and higher birth rates are the primary drivers of Muslim population growth in the United States and its metropolitan areas through 2025: Pew’s cohort-component models treat immigration and...
The national share of non‑Hispanic white (often termed “Caucasian” in public discourse) in the United States has marginally declined in recent federal estimates, but , ranging from under one‑quarter t...
NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center and most major forecasters expect a La Niña-influenced 2025–26 winter that tilts the odds toward a cooler, wetter northern U.S. and a warmer, drier southern tier; NOAA...
SNAP participation rates vary substantially by state and region: nationwide coverage reached an estimated , but state and regional rates range from about , with states like and large states like . Rec...