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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...
Recent reporting and specialist data projects estimate that U.S. abortions in 2024 ranged from roughly 1.05 million to 1.14 million, depending on the source and methodology: Guttmacher’s monthly provi...
Several recent state bills sought to change ages tied to sexual consent, marriage, medical consent, or criminal prosecution — mostly to raise ages (e.g., Oklahoma’s HB1003 to raise statutory‑rape thre...
Available reporting identifies multiple Republican officeholders and political figures who faced criminal charges for sex-related crimes during 2020–2025, including a South Carolina state representati...
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...
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 ...
Video of Donald Trump’s 2015 imitation that critics say mocked New York Times reporter Serge F. Kovaleski is widely available from legacy outlets; the clip originates from a November 2015 campaign ral...
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 ...
The assembled source material shows isolated, well-documented cases of Republican politicians charged with or convicted of child sex offenses — including RJ May, John Jessup, Dennis Hastert and Roy Mo...
Two recently reported, high-profile cases involving Republican officeholders or politicians in the United States have clear, documented allegations or pleas: Minnesota state Senator Justin Eichorn was...
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...
Available reporting from March–June 2025 identifies at least three Republican politicians arrested or criminally charged in 2025 on crimes involving minors: Minnesota state Sen. Justin Eichorn (arrest...
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...
Several U.S. states have passed age‑verification laws that led major adult sites — notably Pornhub (operated by Aylo) — to block access rather than implement state rules; by early 2025 at least 17 sta...
Since 2010, sources compiled in the analyses disagree on the exact roll call but converge that , with lists ranging from about ten to as many as sixteen states depending on definitions and later court...
State-by-state raw tallies of organized “white supremacist” groups show hotspots in large-population states and in a recurring cohort identified by civil-society trackers: California, Texas, Florida, ...
Available reporting shows that the number of clinician‑provided abortions in the U.S. rose from 2020 to 2024 and that total abortions nationwide were estimated at 1.14 million in 2024 according to Soc...
There is showing what share of arrests for sexual assault against children are comprised by self-identified conservatives or Republicans because the available reporting and datasets referenced here do...
President Biden regularly attended Mass and other church services during his presidency, with multiple documented public appearances at Holy Trinity in Washington and St. Joseph on the Brandywine in D...
Multiple recent efforts try to rank “most racist” U.S. states by using different proxies — hate-crime reports, counts of organized hate groups, social-media scraping for slurs, and analyses of raciall...