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The Franklin affair began after the 1988 collapse of the Franklin Community Federal Credit Union and centered on allegations that its manager, Lawrence E. “Larry” King Jr., and other powerful figures ...
In the documents provided there is stating how many children ICE agents have "rescued" in the past five years; individual operations are reported (for example rescued in a Nebraska human‑trafficking b...
The "Franklin cover-up" refers to allegations that a major 1988 investigation into the Franklin Community Federal Credit Union in Omaha—where roughly $38–$40 million was stolen under manager Lawrence ...
Nine states still tax at least some Social Security benefits as of the 2025 tax year, though the rules differ widely by state and income; West Virginia is completing a legislated phase‑out so it will ...
Available reporting and trackers show hundreds of individual lawsuits have been filed against the Biden administration by states, businesses, advocacy groups and officials — but there is no single, au...
The available contemporaneous reporting indicates that, following the 2024 general election and as the 119th Congress was seated, twelve states had in their U.S. House delegations: . This finding is r...
In fiscal-year 2024 analyses, USAFacts reports 19 states were net contributors (sent more to the federal government than they received), led in absolute dollars by California ($275.6 billion), New Yor...
Hillary Clinton won the national popular vote in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, receiving roughly 65.8 million votes (about 48.5%) to Donald Trump’s roughly 63.0 million (about 46.4%), a margin ...
About one-quarter to two-thirds of SNAP recipients are employed at some point during a year, and multiple analyses report large shares of program users who work full time, with specific estimates ofte...
A plurality of U.S. states have some form of “stop-and-identify” statute that allows police who have reasonable, articulable suspicion of criminal activity to require a stopped person to identify them...
Claims that the United States contains widespread, large-scale underground tunnel networks used specifically for child trafficking are . Recent official seizures and criminal cases document localized ...
Federal immigration agents from ICE are operating in Minnesota as part of a campaign called “Operation Metro Surge,” and DHS says ICE arrested “more than 400” noncitizens during the effort; Minnesota ...
Republicans face a defense-heavy map in 2026 but forecasters still consider the GOP favored to retain its Senate majority; only a handful of Republican-held seats are widely labeled competitive, with ...
The supplied analyses converge on two key claims: losing enhanced Affordable Care Act (ACA) premium subsidies would cause large enrollment declines and higher premiums, with ; specific lists of most-i...
Analyses from multiple outlets find a consistent pattern: many high-income, “blue” states (like New York, California, Massachusetts) send more in federal taxes than they receive back, while many lower...
The question of which party will control the U.S. House and Senate after the 2026 elections is unresolved and depends on a shifting set of structural factors, individual race dynamics, and national po...
The United States has no single federal "age of majority"; , and . A small number of states still set different ages—Alabama and Nebraska at 19, Mississippi at 21—while the 26th Amendment separately g...
States that cut or limit property taxes typically replace the lost local revenue by shifting the burden to other statewide taxes (sales or income), redirecting existing state receipts, imposing spendi...
As of mid‑2025, the legal landscape is mixed: most states allow 16‑year‑olds to marry with some combination of parental and/or judicial permission, but a growing minority of states have banned all und...
New York, California and Maryland appear prominently in reporting as the states with the largest absolute counts and dollar totals of reported SNAP benefit abuse between 2023 and early 2025, while sev...