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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...
Five men widely called the “Dancing Israelis” were Israeli nationals detained in the U.S. after witnesses reported a group videotaping and appearing jubilant near the Manhattan skyline on 9/11; they w...
Three competing estimates circulate for the number of Muslims in the United States around 2025: roughly 3.4–3.9 million from public-data aggregators and survey firms, about 4.5 million from the 2020 U...
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...
California, Texas, Florida, New York, New Jersey and Illinois together held the largest shares of the U.S. unauthorized (undocumented) population in recent estimates, accounting for roughly half to mo...
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 ...
Multiple major news outlets and fact-checkers report there is no documented evidence that Donald Trump ever visited Jeffrey Epstein’s private island, Little St. James; flight logs show Trump flew on E...
A Palm Beach County suit filed Nov. 24 seeks at least $310 million, accusing Donald Trump, Elon Musk and Bill Gates of operating an “Epstein‑identical” trafficking and exploitation venture and seeking...
Recent 2025 estimates consistently place at the top for numbers of undocumented immigrants, with a commonly cited ranking listing California first (about ), followed by Texas and Florida, then New Jer...
Alina Habba, a former personal lawyer for President Donald Trump, resigned as the U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey after an appeals court found her appointment unlawful; reports say she le...
As of the 2025 election cycle, multiple U.S. cities are led by mayors who are identified in reporting as Muslim — most prominently Zohran Mamdani in New York City and Abdullah Hammoud in Dearborn, Mic...
Reporting spanning 2016–2025 documents multiple instances where Trump Organization properties employed people who lacked legal work authorization or where contractors used undocumented labor — includi...
The term "Dancing Israelis" refers to five men from a New Jersey moving company who were observed on 9/11 videotaping and reportedly celebrating near the World Trade Center; their story has been invok...
Analyses across news outlets and research groups show that on balance wealthier, Democratic-leaning “blue” states tend to send more federal tax dollars to Washington than they receive back in programm...
Multiple special elections in 2025–2026 are active and could influence control of the U.S. House because the GOP majority is narrow; at least six special House contests were expected in 2025 and three...
Reporting from nj.com states that when federal immigration agents detained Adonay Mancia Rodríguez in Morristown on Jan. 11, 2026, his six‑year‑old daughter was left alone in their apartment at the mo...
Donald Trump’s companies have entered corporate bankruptcy multiple times; most reputable contemporary accounts count , primarily tied to Atlantic City casinos and related hotel operations, while Trum...
You are not automatically required to show ID to ICE in public unless officers have detained or arrested you or you are a noncitizen who by law must carry immigration documents; legal guidance and adv...
Flight logs released in court and later posted by the Department of Justice show Donald Trump’s name on Jeffrey Epstein’s private-plane manifests multiple times in the 1990s — commonly reported as sev...
Available reporting shows there is no single list of states that universally allow “abortion up to the moment of birth”; instead, states vary — some have no term limits, some permit abortions up to vi...