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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...
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...
In 2026 the most consistent reporting points to a cluster of Ku Klux Klan activity concentrated in traditional Southern strongholds — notably Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee — with states such as T...
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...
Red (“Republican-leaning”) states generally register higher official poverty rates than blue (“Democratic-leaning”) states in multiple recent analyses, but the relationship between party control, pove...
The organized Ku Klux Klan in 2024–2025 remained fragmented into multiple local factions rather than a single nationwide body, with watchdogs and compilations still recording a few dozen active Klan g...
The best contemporaneous measure from the 1860 U.S. Census shows roughly one-third of white Southern families held enslaved people: historians and reference sources commonly cite that about 30–37 perc...
Estimates of the fiscal cost of illegal immigration to U.S. taxpayers in 2024 vary widely depending on method and source: some advocacy and congressional reports cite figures around $150–151 billion a...
Democrats logged large down‑ballot gains in the 2025 off‑year elections: they flipped at least 13 seats in the Virginia House of Delegates (moving the chamber from 51 to 64 Democrats) and won multiple...
ICE operated a large, dispersed network of detention facilities in and before 2024, ranging from dedicated ICE processing centers to county jails holding immigration detainees; reporting and advocacy ...
There is no single, complete table in the supplied reporting that lists every state’s 2026 Medicaid income eligibility limits by household size; available sources explain that most Medicaid income cut...
Available contemporary records in the provided reporting do not show a verifiable record of a single individual named “Harry Myers” serving in specific military units or deployments during the 1990s; ...
Available specialist counts disagree: the Anti-Defamation League reported “just over thirty active Klan groups” in 2023, while other trackers and older SPLC maps show many more historically; mainstrea...
States set Medicaid and CHIP income cutoffs as percentages of the Federal Poverty Level (FPL) that vary by program and household size; many adults in expansion states qualify up to roughly 138% of FPL...
Estimates of the taxpayer cost of “illegal immigration” vary widely: a 2024 FAIR study puts the annual fiscal burden at roughly $151 billion and calculates a per-taxpayer hit near $1,156 ($957 after a...
The recent reporting and analyses collated here identify multiple ICE officer-involved shootings across 2024–2025, centered on high-profile incidents in Chicago (September 12, 2025), Dallas (September...
Prison labor pay in the United States is extremely low and highly variable across jurisdictions: most ordinary facility jobs pay only , while industrial programs (UNICOR/Federal Prison Industries and ...
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...
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...
Multiple 2025 incidents framed as “lynchings” or likened to historical lynching drew national and international attention: reported killings abroad such as the killing of a Palestinian American near R...