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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...
Available reporting identifies Dan Flood as Turning Point USA’s security director and describes a broader security team involved after the Sept. 10, 2025 shooting of founder Charlie Kirk; local police...
A loose but active global cloud-seeding landscape in 2025 spans dozens of countries — led by state-scale programs in China, the UAE, India, Australia and multiple U.S. states — with the World Meteorol...
States split into three practical categories: jurisdictions that permit entirely anonymous winners (a small list), those that permit claiming through entities (trusts or LLCs) but often still publish ...
There is no single agreed national tally in the provided materials, but the analyses cluster around three broad estimates: roughly , , and , depending on the dataset and which states report party regi...
Joe Biden did call a New Hampshire voter “a lying, dog-faced pony soldier” at a campaign event in February 2020; multiple outlets transcribed the line and quoted Biden’s campaign explaining it as a jo...
California and Florida listed the largest counts of registered Republicans in 2024, with roughly and registered Republicans respectively, according to September 2024 reporting; these two states togeth...
The available materials do not supply a definitive, state-by-state ranking of ; the closest direct data points are older state per-capita welfare figures and varied state-level Medicaid and welfare sp...
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...
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...
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...
State law on whether autopsy reports are “public records” varies widely: several states (e.g., Colorado, Texas, Alabama) have statutes or official guidance treating at least some autopsy reports as pu...
Six U.S. states currently have only one voting seat in the House of Representatives — Alaska, Delaware, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont and Wyoming — meaning each elects a single “at‑large” repres...
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 ...
Twenty‑three states and the District of Columbia maintain statutes that limit wearing masks in public, but those laws vary sharply in scope: some are narrow, criminalizing masking conducted with inten...
State-run weather modification in the United States today is largely a patchwork of cloud‑seeding programs administered by state agencies, local water districts and multi‑county authorities—examples i...
Available reporting shows a consistent pattern: smaller, rural states and states with large Medicaid or federal program footprints tend to receive the most federal funding per resident; examples frequ...
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...
As of the reporting in the supplied sources, at least 12–13 U.S. states have enforced near‑total or total abortion bans with very limited exceptions, and multiple trackers show a patchwork that change...
After leaving Fox News in April 2023, Tucker Carlson launched a subscription streaming platform called the Tucker Carlson Network and built a small media ecosystem that includes podcast and documentar...